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Lost Sunday 1 & 2

Occurrence in Emery county in Utah, United States with commodity Uranium
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10078231
MRDS ID W026457
Record type Site
Current site name Lost Sunday 1 & 2
Related records 10227194

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.0013, 38.66747 (WGS84)
Elevation 1582
Relative position 1.3 MILES SOUTH OF TOMSICH BUTTE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Emery(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ireland Mesa(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Salina(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 008E 02 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Petrified Wood Ore
Coal Gangue
Gypsum Gangue
Limonite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.0013, 38.66747
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description West Flank Of San Rafael Swell

Ore body information

  • General form SCATTERED PODS
    Strike N 10 DEG E
    Dip 3 DEG NW
    Thickness 6.1M
    Length 22.86M
    Width 6.1M
    Depth to top 1.52M
    Depth to bottom 7.62M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Petrified Logs

Comments on the geologic information

  • DEPOSIT ON SOUTH SIDE OF THICKENING CHANNEL; SANDSTONE - LENTICULAR, FLUVIAL, CHANNEL DEPOSIT, CROSS-BEDD, THIN TO MASSIVE BEDDING

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name San Rafael District

Land status

Ownership category State

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 5.49M
    Overall depth 6.1M

Comments on the workings information

  • ONE ADIT, AND ONE SMALL DIGGING

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HAWLEY, C. C., AND OTHERS, 1968 , GEOLOGY, ALTERED ROCKS, AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE SAN RAFAEL SWELL, EMERY COUNTY UT: USGS BULL 1239

  • Reserve-Resource

    DOELLING, H. H., 1977

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit LOGS SCATTERED IN AREA

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1977 Doelling, Hellmut H. Bureau of Land Management

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