Lynn Claims

Past Producer in Kane 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. 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 10088359
MRDS ID DB01830
Record type Site
Current site name Lynn Claims
Related records 10299977

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.82022, 37.32498 (WGS84)
Elevation 1981
Relative position BETWEEN ORDERVILLE GULCH AND CLEAR CREEK MTN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Kane(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Clear Creek Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Kanab(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Cedar City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Virgin(hydrologic unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic subregion)

Lower 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 Kane

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 040S 009W 16,21 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SW 1/4 SE 1/4 SE 1/4 SEC. 16

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Vanadium Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Carnotite Ore
Tyuyamunite Ore
Limonite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Bleaching In Clay

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Clay, Mud
    Rock unit name Dakota Formation
    Rock description Dakota Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Conglomerate

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.82022, 37.32498

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form DISCONTINUOUS IN TABULAR BODY
    Thickness 1.52M
    Length 304.8M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 24.38M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Carbon Trash, Clay Galls

Comments on the geologic information

  • MINERALIZATION WITHIN 25 FEET OF BASE OF DAKOTA

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1950

Mining district

District name Orderville Canyon

Land status

Ownership category State

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Exxon Corp.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Henry Bulloch
    Home office Cedar City, Ut.

Comments on the production information

  • 8 1/2 TONS OF 0.16 % ARE SHIPPED TO MARYSVALE IN JUNE 1950

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 109.73M
    Overall depth 60.96M
    Overall length 243.84M
    Overall width 7.62M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1978 Trimble, Larry M. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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