Yellow Circle Group

Producer in San Juan county in Utah, United States with commodities Uranium, Vanadium
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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Reserves and resources
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10079043
MRDS ID W027855
Record type Site
Current site name Yellow Circle Group
Alternate or previous names Includes: Yellow Circle 1 - 7, Primero, Protection Forked Canyon, Exchecquer, Fraction, U.S. Treasury, Chapparal, Jessie Bolsey, White Fawn 1 & 2, Inspiration, Maybe, And Others
Related records 10179179

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.36736, 38.39943 (WGS84)
Elevation 2012
Relative position 2.9 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF THE CONFLUENCE OF POLE CREEK AND KANE SPRINGS CREEK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Juan(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Tukuhnikivatz(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

Manti-La Sal National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah San Juan

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 028S 023E 02 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS: SW 1/4 , NW 1/4 , NW 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Vanadium Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Carnotite Ore
Mica 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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.36736, 38.39943

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 1.52M
    Length 60.96M
    Width 15.24M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 304.8M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Year of first production 1956

Mining district

District name Cane Creek Area

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Plateau Mining Co.

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1977
    Total resources 226000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Uranium U3O8 0.2 wt-pct Uranium Major 1977

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 914.4M
    Overall depth 91.44M

Comments on the workings information

  • MINE WORKINGS INCLUDE SEVERAL INCLINES AND ADITS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PHOENIX, D. A., 1958 , G.S.A. BULLETIN VOL. 69 , P. 403 - 417

  • Deposit

    FARROW, C. E. AND OTHERS, 1955 , USAEC REPORT RME #58

  • Deposit

    HULEATT, W. P., S. W. HAZEN AND W. M. TRARER JR., 1946 , USBM RI #3930

  • Production

    UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY FILES

  • Reserve-Resource

    LEE PERRY 1977

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1977 Perry, Lee I. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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

External references