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Payday

Past Producer in San Juan county in Utah, United States with commodities Uranium, Vanadium, Copper
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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. Production statistics
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10078769
MRDS ID W027385
Record type Site
Current site name Payday
Related records 10251964

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.76848, 37.78861 (WGS84)
Elevation 1963
Relative position 2.8 MILES NORTH FROM THE NOTCH

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Juan(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Poison Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Blanding(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Cortez(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower San Juan-Four Corners(hydrologic unit)

Lower San Juan(hydrologic accounting unit)

San Juan(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Manti-La Sal National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah San Juan

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 034S 020E 30 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATED IN UNSURVEYED AREA

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Vanadium Critical Primary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Bornite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Uraninite Ore
Uranophane Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Bleaching In Mudstone

Analytical data

Result 1.5 FT. CHIP SAMPLE - .165 % U3O8 , .012 % V2O5

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Mudstone
    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 Chinle Formation, Sandstone Member
    Rock description Chinle Formation, Sandstone Member

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.76848, 37.78861
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 5 DEG W
    Dip 6 DEG NE
    Thickness 1.22M
    Length 60.96M
    Width 18.29M
    Depth to top 6.1M
    Depth to bottom 18.29M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Paleochannel

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 National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Shumway, Kenneth

Production statistics

  • Year 1958
    Material U
    Accuracy Accurate
    Description Ap_Grade: ^.25 % U3o8
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Minor U3O8 Ore Uranium Uranium 0wt-pct

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 103.63M
    Overall depth 18.29M

Comments on development

  • DISCOVERED BY RIM STRIPPING

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

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

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

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