Happy Canyon Group

Occurrence in Garfield county in Utah, United States with commodities Uranium, Copper, 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. 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. Reserves and resources
  19. Workings at the site
  20. Links to other databases
  21. Bibliographic references
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10088291
MRDS ID DB01558
Record type Site
Current site name Happy Canyon Group
Related records 10154545

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.29989, 38.14971 (WGS84)
Elevation 1487
Relative position IN SOUTH TRIBUTARY OF HAPPY CANYON 2 1/2 MILES EAST OF THE PNNACLE.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Garfield(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

The Pinnacle(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Hanksville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Salina(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Dirty Devil(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 Garfield

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 031S 015E 05 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED SECTIONS

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Tertiary
Copper Tertiary
Vanadium Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Torbernite Ore
Uraninite Ore
Limonite Gangue

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 Moss Bock Member/Chinle Formation
    Rock description Moss Bock Mbr/Chinle Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.29989, 38.14971

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description West Flank Monument Upwarp

Ore body information

  • General form LENTICULAR
    Strike NORTH
    Dip 2 DEG W
    Thickness 1.52M
    Width 6.1M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 243.84M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Sedimentary (Fluvial) Channel

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Henry Mtns/Orange Cliffs

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Northwest Uranium Corp.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Clayton Stocks
    Home office Moab, Ut.

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1973
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Uranium U3O8 0.15 wt-pct Uranium Trace 1973

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 22.86M

Comments on the workings information

  • SIMPLE ADIT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, H. H., 1967 , URANIUM DEPOSITS OF GARFIELD COUNTY, UTAH: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY SPECIAL STUDIES 22 .

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, H. H., 1975 , GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF GARFIELD COUNTY, UTAH: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY BULL. 107 .

  • Deposit

    BAKER, A. A., 1946 , GEOLOGY OF THE GREEN RIVER DESERT-CATARACT CANYON REGION, EMERY, WAYNE, AND GARFIELD COUNTIES, UTAH: US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 951 .

  • Deposit

    1967 RECON UGMS SP. ST. 22

  • Deposit

    1973 RECON UGMS FOR USBM-MAS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1978 Doelling, Hellmut H. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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