Ike Three

Past Producer in San Juan 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 10089496
MRDS ID W027084
Record type Site
Current site name Ike Three
Alternate or previous names Big Sandy
Related records 10130000

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.46263, 37.35889 (WGS84)
Elevation 1402
Relative position 4.4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF THE INTERSECTION OF UTAH STATE HIGHWAYS 47 AND 262

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Juan(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Recapture Pocket(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bluff(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Cortez(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower San Juan-Four Corners(hydrologic unit)

Lower San Juan(hydrologic accounting unit)

San Juan(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 039S 022E 35 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION: NW 1/4 NE 1/4 NE 1/4 SEC. 35.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Vanadium Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Carnotite Ore
Limonite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Bleaching In Sandstone And Mudstone

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Mudstone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Recapture Member Of Morrison Formation
    Rock description Recapture Member Of Morrison Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.46263, 37.35889

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENTICULAR, ELONGATE TABULAR
    Strike N 45 DEG W
    Dip 1 DEG NE
    Thickness 0.61M
    Length 30.48M
    Width 12.19M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 3.05M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Paleochannels, Coalified Tree Remains

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Bluff - Butler Wash

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Milt Neilson

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.039HA
    Overall length 67.06M
    Overall width 6.1M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF RIM STRIPPING (220 FT) AND THREE DOZER CUTS ABOUT 10 FT. DEEP AND 30 FT LONG

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Reserve-Resource

    TRIMBLE, L. M., 1977

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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