Sandy No. 2 Mine

Past Producer in San Juan county in Utah, United States with commodities Uranium, Vanadium, 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. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  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 10078758
MRDS ID W027370
Record type Site
Current site name Sandy No. 2 Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.95903, 37.65972 (WGS84)
Elevation 2286
Relative position 1.7 MILES SSW FROM THE TOE OF THE WOODENSHOE BUTTES

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Juan(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Woodenshoe Buttes(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Blanding(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Cortez(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Lake Powell(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 San Juan

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 036S 018E 17 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS: NW 1/4 SE 1/4 NW 1/4 SEC. 17

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Vanadium Critical Primary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Malachite Ore
Uraninite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Bleaching In Mudstone

Analytical data

Result 1.5 FT CHIP SAMPLE. .854 % U3O8 , .010 % V2O5

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Shinarump Member Of Chinle Formation;Monitor Butte Member Of Chinle Formation
    Rock description Shinarump Member Of Chinle Formation;Monitor Butte Member Of Chinle Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.95903, 37.65972

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Paleostream Channels

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR, LENS
    Strike N 40 DEG E
    Dip 4 DEG SE
    Thickness 3.66M
    Length 304.8M
    Width 60.96M
    Depth to top 3.66M
    Depth to bottom 18.29M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Large
Significant No

Mining district

District name Elk Ridge Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Utah Power And Light Co.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 609.6M
    Overall depth 18.29M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Production

    UGMS STUDY 1977

  • Reserve-Resource

    JONES, HAROLD, 1977

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1977 Jones, Harold H. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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