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Verdure

Past Producer in San Juan 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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10078633
MRDS ID W027072
Record type Site
Current site name Verdure
Alternate or previous names Rock 1 & 2

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.26762, 37.6925 (WGS84)
Elevation 1804
Relative position 4.3 MILES NORTHEAST OF DEVIL MESA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Juan(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Devil Mesa(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Blanding(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Cortez(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Montezuma(hydrologic unit)

Lower San Juan(hydrologic accounting unit)

San Juan(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 San Juan

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 035S 024E 34 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION: SW 1/4 SE 1/4 NE 1/4 SEC. 34

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Vanadium Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Carnotite Ore
Roscoelite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Bleaching In Sandstone

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Mudstone
    Rock unit name Salt Wash Member of Morrison Formation
    Rock description Salt Wash Member of Morrison Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.26762, 37.6925
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form "C" SHAPED ROLLS
    Strike N 80 DEG E
    Dip 1 1/2 DEG SE
    Thickness 1.83M
    Length 45.72M
    Width 22.86M
    Depth to top 4.57M
    Depth to bottom 30.48M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Paleochannel, Carbonaceous Material

Comments on the geologic information

  • NUMEROUS LARGE LOGS ADJACENT TO ROLLS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Large
Significant No
Discovery year 1940
Discoverer H. And S. Shumway
Year of first production 1944

Mining district

District name Montezuma Canyon Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Shumway Brothers

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 565.4M
    Overall depth 30.48M

Comments on the workings information

  • ROCK AND VERDURE MINES COMBINED

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HUFF, L. C., AND LESURE, F. G., 1965, GEOLOGY AND URANIUM DEPOSITS OF MONTEZUMA CANYON AREA, SAN JUAN COUNTY, UTAH, U.S.G.S. BULLETIN 1190

  • Production

    UGMS STUDY - 1973

  • Reserve-Resource

    TRIMBLE, L. M., 1977

Reporter information

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

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