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Great Basin

Past Producer in Emery county in Utah, United States with commodities Uranium, Vanadium
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10073006
MRDS ID W018780
Record type Site
Current site name Great Basin
Related records 10130012

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.87213, 38.59192 (WGS84)
Elevation 1634
Relative position .8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BULLBERRY SPRING

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Emery(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Little Wild Horse Mesa(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

San Rafael Desert(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Salina(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Muddy(hydrologic unit)

Upper Colorado-Dirty Devil(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Colorado-Dirty Devil(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management UT)

Bureau of Land Management UT BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Emery

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 025S 009E 36 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION: NW 1/4, NW 1/4, SE 1/4, SEC 36

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Vanadium Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Uraninite Ore
Limonite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Siltstone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Moss Back Member Of Chinle Formation
    Rock description Moss Back Member Of Chinle Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.87213, 38.59192
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Northwest Trending Fault On Down Side
Type of structure Regional
Structure description San Rafael Swell

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 0.61M
    Length 4.57M
    Width 2.13M
    Depth to top 1.52M
    Depth to bottom 2.13M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name San Rafael Mining District

Land status

Ownership category State

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner U.S. Uranium Corp.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • NO RESERVES

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.004HA
    Overall length 12.19M
    Overall width 3.66M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HAWLEY, AND OTHERS, 1968, GEOLOGY, ALTERED ROCKS AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE SAN RAFAEL SWELL, EMERY CO., UTAH, USGS BULL. 1239

  • Reserve-Resource

    TRIMBLE, L. M., 1977

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1977 Trimble, Larry M. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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