Honey Bee #1 Atomic King #2

Producer in San Juan county in Utah, United States with commodities Uranium, Vanadium, 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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10079075
MRDS ID W027906
Record type Site
Current site name Honey Bee #1 Atomic King #2
Alternate or previous names Operated and Shipped As Part of Monte Cristo Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.59598, 38.47331 (WGS84)
Elevation 1390
Relative position 1.6 MILES ESE 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 10 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION: SE 1/4 , NE 1/4 , NE 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Vanadium Critical Tertiary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Carnotite Ore
Chalcocite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Uraninite Ore
Uranophane Ore
Ankerite Gangue
Barite Gangue
Calcite Gangue
Galena Gangue
Pyrite Gangue

Analytical data

Result .028 % U3O8 , .015 % V2O5

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.59598, 38.47331

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Faults, In Fault Fracture Zone Or In Perable Beds Adjposition To.

Ore body information

  • General form WEDGE, IRREGULAR
    Strike N 17 DEG W
    Dip 15 DEG E
    Thickness 1.52M
    Length 15.24M
    Width 9.14M
    Depth to top 1.52M
    Depth to bottom 36.58M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault, Fractures, Zone, Controled By Distance From Cutler, Moenkopi Contact

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No

Mining district

District name Moab District Lower Kane Creek

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • DRIFTING TO A FAVORABLE DRILL HOLE.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 990.6M
    Overall depth 54.86M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: SPLH35 345 FT IN FROM PORTAL, FACE OF NORTH DRIFT, FAULT MATERIAL

  • Reserve-Resource

    JONES, H. 1977

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1977 Trimble, Larry M. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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