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Ritz

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. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10078778
MRDS ID W027395
Record type Site
Current site name Ritz
Related records 10252103

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.08151, 37.52194 (WGS84)
Elevation 1646
Relative position 7.9 MILES EAST OF BONNIE DALTON ARTESION WELL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Juan(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Papoose Canyon(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

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah San Juan

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 037S 026E 32 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION: NW 1/4 , SE 1/4 , SE 1/4 SECTION 32

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Vanadium Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Carnotite Ore
Limonite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Bleaching In Sandstone

Analytical data

Result 18 INCH CHIP SAMPLE, .123 % U3O8 , 2.07 % V2O5

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.08151, 37.52194
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENS
    Strike N 85 DEG E
    Dip 2 DEG SE
    Thickness 0.61M
    Length 4.57M
    Width 2.44M
    Depth to top 1.83M
    Depth to bottom 9.14M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Paleochannel

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Montezuma Canyon

Land status

Ownership category State

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 24.38M
    Overall depth 9.14M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HUFF, L. C., LESURE, F. G., GEOLOGY AND URANIUM DEPOSITS OF MONTEZUMA CANYON AREA, SAN JUAN CO., UT., USGS BULL. 1190 102 P

  • Reserve-Resource

    TRIMBLE, L. M., 1977

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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

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