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Camel No. 5 Prospect

Past Producer 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. Alteration
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10079000
MRDS ID W027765
Record type Site
Current site name Camel No. 5 Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.99988, 37.65972 (WGS84)
Elevation 2219
Relative position 4.7 MILES E 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

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

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 13 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTIONS SUBDIVISION: SW 1/4 , NW 1/4 , NW 1/4 , SEC. 13

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

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 Chinle Formation, Shinarump Member
    Rock description Chinle Formation, Shinarump Member

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.99988, 37.65972
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Paleochannel

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR, IRREGULAR LENS
    Strike N 30 DEG W
    Dip 2 DEG SW
    Thickness 0.61M
    Depth to top 3.05M
    Depth to bottom 5.79M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name White Canyon District, Deer Flat Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • RESERVE INFORMATION UNKNOWN DUE TO INACCESSABILITY

Comments on the workings information

  • PORTAL CAVED. WORKS UNKNOWN

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • 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

    HAROLD JONES, 1977

Reporter information

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

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