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Canary Big Fault

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. Ownership information
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10079064
MRDS ID W027892
Record type Site
Current site name Canary Big Fault
Alternate or previous names Operated and Shipped As Part of Monte Cristo Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.60098, 38.48192 (WGS84)
Elevation 1359
Relative position 1.3 MILES E FROM HURRAH PASS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Juan(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Trough Springs Canyon(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

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 027S 021E 03 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION: NW 1/4 , NE 1/4 , SW 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Uraninite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Slight Bleaching

Analytical data

Result U3O8 = .022 , V2O5 = .720

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Cutler Formation
    Rock description Cutler Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.60098, 38.48192
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description E. Flank Cane Creek Anticline
Type of structure Local
Structure description N 40 Deg W Trending Fault

Ore body information

  • General form LINEAR, IRREGULAR, PINCH AND SWELL
    Strike N 40 DEG W
    Dip 49 DEG SW
    Thickness 0.3M
    Length 167.64M
    Width 0.91M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 9.14M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Discovery year 1955
Year of first production 1955

Mining district

District name Moab District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Uranium Production Co.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 85.34M
    Overall depth 11.58M

Comments on the workings information

  • 6 WORKINGS ALONG FAULT ZONE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: SAMPLE H26 - 1 FT. CHIP ACCROSS FAULT GOUGE, 50 FT. IN FROM PORTAL SE RIB

  • Reserve-Resource

    DOELLING, H. H.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Discovery Year: 1950S

Reporter information

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

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

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