Bullseye Mine

Past Producer in San Juan county in Utah, United States with commodities Uranium, Copper
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. 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. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10079013
MRDS ID W027788
Record type Site
Current site name Bullseye Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.20821, 37.59528 (WGS84)
Elevation 1737
Relative position 5.1 MILES WSW OF THE NEEDLE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Juan(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Fry Spring(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 037S 016E Utah

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED SECTION 6

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcocite Ore
Malachite Ore
Uraninite Ore
Uranophane Ore

Analytical data

Result U3O8 = .017 %, V2O5 = .015

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) -110.20821, 37.59528

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR, TABULAR, LENS
    Strike N 10 DEG W
    Dip 2 DEG W
    Depth to top 18.29M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Paleochannels

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name White Canyon District, Red Canyon Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Utah Power And Light Co.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 182.88M

Comments on the workings information

  • INCLINE N 83 DEG E, 600 FT. TO WHERE FLOODED. ORE LENS 1 FT. THICK PRESENT, ROOM AND PILLAR MINING VIEWED. EXTENT UNKNOWN

Comments on development

  • DRILLING PREFORMED ENE OF ADIT EXTENT AND RESULTS UNKNOWN

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: SAMPLE H 15 - 1 FT CHIP, 540 FT IN FROM PORTAL, 5 M STOPE ON S, SW CORNER

  • 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 CO., 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

    UGMS STUDY, 1973

  • Reserve-Resource

    JONES, H., 1977

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit LOWER PORTIONS OF WORK FLOODAL. DEPOSIT DESCRIPTION UNKNOWN

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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