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Occurrence in San Juan county in Utah, United States with commodity Uranium
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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. Land status
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10078985
MRDS ID W027744
Record type Site
Current site name Unknown

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.46681, 38.40138 (WGS84)
Elevation 1707
Relative position 1.0 MILES WNW OF KANE SPRINGS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Juan(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Kane Springs(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

La Sal(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Moab(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Colorado-Kane Springs(hydrologic unit)

Upper Colorado-Dolores(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Colorado-Dolores(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 028S 022E 02 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION: NW 1/4 , NE 1/4 , SEC. 2

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Carnotite 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

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENS, POD
    Thickness 0.3M
    Length 15.24M
    Width 4.57M
    Depth to top 1.22M
    Depth to bottom 2.13M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Channel Scours Paleochannels Carbon Trash

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • MAY HAVE PRODUCED A FEW BUCKETS FULL OF ORE

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Area 0.005HA
    Length 7.62M
    Overall depth 2.13M
    Overall length 9.14M
    Overall width 5.49M

Comments on the workings information

  • MOSTLY EXPLORATION WORK

Comments on development

  • EXTENT AND RESULTS OF DRILLING PROGRAM ABOUT PROPERTY UNKNOWN.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Production

    HAROLD JONES

  • Reserve-Resource

    JONES, H. 1977

Reporter information

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

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