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Joe Bishop

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. 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. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10079024
MRDS ID W027811
Record type Site
Current site name Joe Bishop
Related records 10130333

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.28932, 37.54417 (WGS84)
Elevation 1463
Relative position 5.15 MILES SE FROM THE CHOCOLATE DROP

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Juan(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Chocolate Drop(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 015E Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION 29 (UNSURVEYED)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Allophane Ore
Uranophane Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Bleaching

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) -110.28932, 37.54417
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR/BLANKET
    Thickness 0.3M
    Length 33.53M
    Width 15.24M
    Depth to top 5.49M
    Depth to bottom 6.71M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Paleochannels

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, Red Canyon Area.

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Elliot Redd

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • NO ESTIMATE MADE

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 60.96M
    Overall depth 6.71M

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 CO.'S UTAH, USGS BULL 1125

  • Production

    UGMS INVESTIGATION 1973

  • Reserve-Resource

    HAROLD JONES, 1977

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1977 Jones, Harold H. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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