Skyline Road

Occurrence in San Juan county in Utah, United States with commodities Uranium, Copper
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Workings at the site
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10078621
MRDS ID W027044
Record type Site
Current site name Skyline Road
Related records 10251820

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.26071, 37.01862 (WGS84)
Elevation 1695
Relative position APPROXIMATELY 3.35 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BM 4838, 1.7 MILES NORTHEAST OF ANVIL ROCK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Juan(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Oljato(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Navajo Mountain(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Escalante(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower San Juan(hydrologic unit)

Lower San Juan(hydrologic accounting unit)

San Juan(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

BIA(Federal land areas administered by BIA)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah San Juan

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 043S 015E 28 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION: NW 1/4, NW 1/4, SE 1/4, SEC. 28

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Tertiary
Copper Tertiary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Shinarump Member Of Chinle Formation
    Rock description Shinarump Member Of Chinle Formation
    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) -110.26071, 37.01862

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENS
    Strike N 10 DEG E
    Dip 1 DEG NW
    Thickness 0.3M
    Length 6.1M
    Width 3.05M
    Depth to top 12.19M
    Depth to bottom 12.19M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Paleochannel

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • NO RESERVES

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 4.57M
    Overall depth 12.19M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TRIMBLE, D. E., LEWIS, R. Q. SR., 1959, GEOLOGY AND URANIUM DEPOSITS OF MONUMENT VALLEY, SAN JUAN CO., UTAH, USGS BULL. 1087-D.

  • Deposit

    GUIDEBOOK TO URANIUM DEPOSITS OF WESTERN U.S., USAEC, 1959

  • Deposit

    1959 COMPILE TRIMBLE D. E., BULLETIN

  • Deposit

    1959 COMPILE USAEC GUIDBOOK

  • Reserve-Resource

    TRIMBLE, L. M., 1977

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.