1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Waben

Past Producer in San Juan county in Utah, United States with commodities Uranium, Vanadium
Map
XML
JSON
KML
B
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. 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 10078823
MRDS ID W027469
Record type Site
Current site name Waben
Related records 10276330

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.87598, 37.69444 (WGS84)
Elevation 2658
Relative position 1 MILE NE FROM TWIN SPRINGS

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

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 035S 019E 31 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATED IN UNSURVEYED AREA

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Vanadium Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Uraninite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Bleaching In Mudstone

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 Shinarump Member Of Chinle Formation
    Rock description Shinarump Member Of Chinle Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.87598, 37.69444
ListMap

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 45 DEG W
    Dip 4 DEG SW
    Thickness 0.61M
    Length 15.24M
    Width 6.1M
    Depth to top 6.1M
    Depth to bottom 15.24M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Paleochannel, Petroleum - Like Carbonaceous Material

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Elk Ridge Area

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner R. J. Noonan

Production statistics

  • Year 1965
    Period 1964 - 1965
    Material U
    Accuracy Accurate
    Description Cp_Grade: ^.13 % U3o8 , .05 V2o5
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major V2O5 Vanadium Vanadium 0wt-pct
    Major U3O8 Ore Uranium Uranium 0wt-pct

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • WORKINGS INACCESSABLE DUE TO LANDSLIDE NO RESERVE ESTIMATE POSSIBLE

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 42.67M
    Overall depth 15.24M

Comments on the workings information

  • PORTAL IS CAVED. INFORMATION TAKEN FROM LITERATURE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Production

    UGMS STUDY - 1973

  • Reserve-Resource

    TRIMBLE, L. M., 1977

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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

External references

Maps centered on this site