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Canary # 1

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10078802
MRDS ID W027427
Record type Site
Current site name Canary # 1

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.09874, 37.65639 (WGS84)
Elevation 1829
Relative position 8.2 MILES E OF DALTONS RANCH

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Juan(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Burnt Cabin Creek(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 036S 026E 18 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION: NW 1/4 , NE 1/4 , SE 1/4 SECTION 18

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Vanadium Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Carnotite Ore
Roscoelite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • 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
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.09874, 37.65639
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form ROLL, TABULAR
    Strike N 55 DEG W
    Dip 2 DEG SW
    Thickness 1.22M
    Length 15.24M
    Width 12.19M
    Depth to top 4.57M
    Depth to bottom 9.14M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Paleo Channel Carbonaceous Material

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Montezuma Canyon Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Milt Neilson

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 36.58M
    Overall depth 9.14M

Comments on the workings information

  • TWO ADITS

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

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

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