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Cistern Mine

Past Producer in Emery 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. 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 10089345
MRDS ID W018779
Record type Site
Current site name Cistern Mine
Related records 10275732

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.81991, 38.60581 (WGS84)
Elevation 1634
Relative position 3.9 MILES NORTHEAST OF BULL BERRY SPRING

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Emery(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Little Wild Horse Mesa(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

San Rafael Desert(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Salina(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Muddy(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 Emery

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 025S 010E 28 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION. NE 1/4, NE 1/4, SW 1/4 SEC. 28

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcocite Ore
Malachite Ore
Uraninite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Bleaching In Sandstone

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Moss Back Member Of Chinle Formation;Monitor Butte Member Of Chinle Formation
    Rock description Moss Back Member Of Chinle Formation;Monitor Butte Member Of Chinle Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.81991, 38.60581
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description San Rafael Swell
Type of structure Local
Structure description Se - W Trending Fault

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 67 DEG E
    Dip 7 DEG SE
    Thickness 1.83M
    Length 91.44M
    Width 121.92M
    Depth to top 24.38M
    Depth to bottom 45.72M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Discovery year 1954

Mining district

District name San Rafael Mining District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Hughs Mining Co. Inc.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 182.88M
    Overall depth 45.72M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HAWLEY, C. C., AND OTHERS, 1968, GEOLOGY, ALTERED ROCKS AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE SAN RAFAEL SWELL, EMERY CO., UTAH, USGS BULL. 1239

  • Production

    UGMS STUDY 1973

  • Reserve-Resource

    TRIMBLE, L. M., 1977

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1977 Trimble, Larry M. 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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