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Lone Butte No. 1

Past Producer in San Juan county in Utah, United States with commodities Uranium, 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. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10078997
MRDS ID W027761
Record type Site
Current site name Lone Butte No. 1

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.07377, 37.6575 (WGS84)
Elevation 2030
Relative position 0.8 MILES NE FROM THE CHEESEBOX

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Juan(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

The Cheesebox(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Hite Crossing(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Escalante(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

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 017E 17 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION: SW 1/4 , SW 1/4 , NW 1/4 , SEC. 17

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Malachite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Bleaching In Mudstone.

Analytical data

Result U3O8 = .002 %, V2O5 .012

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Mudstone
    Rock unit name Chinle Formation, Shinarump Member
    Rock description Chinle Formation, Shinarump Member
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.07377, 37.6575
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Stable Platform

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR, IRREGULAR, LENS
    Strike N 40 DEG W
    Dip 2 DEG SW
    Thickness 1.83M
    Length 109.73M
    Width 18.29M
    Depth to top 12.19M
    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 White Canyon District, Deer Flat Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 365.76M
    Overall depth 24.38M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: SAMPLE H 6, 1 FT CHIP, 55 FT. IN S. ADIT N. DRIFT. W RIB. PAY LENS.

  • Deposit

    THADEN, R. E., TRITES, A. F., AND FINNELL, T. L., 1964 , GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE WHITE CANYON AREA, SAN JUAN AND GARFIELD COS., UTAH, U.S.G.S. BULL 1125

  • Deposit

    FINNELL, T. L., FRANKS, P. C., AND HUBBARD, H. A., 1963 , GEOLOGY, ORE DEPOSITS AND EXPLORATORY DRILLING IN THE DEER FLAT AREA, WHITE CANYON DIST., SAN JUAN CO., UTAH, U.S.G.S. BULL. 1132 .

  • Production

    U.G.M.S., STUDY, 1973

  • Reserve-Resource

    JONES, H. 1977

Reporter information

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

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