Red Ant #1 and 2

Occurrence 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10089497
MRDS ID W027086
Record type Site
Current site name Red Ant #1 and 2
Alternate or previous names Red Ant #1 - 5, Black Spider 1-2

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.43819, 37.32862 (WGS84)
Elevation 1402
Relative position 8.6 MILES NORTHWEST OF MONTEZUMA CREEK SCHOOL

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 040S 023E 06 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS: SW 1/4 NW 1/4 NW 1/4 SEC. 6

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Vanadium Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Carnotite Ore

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) -109.43819, 37.32862

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N 30 DEG W
    Dip 2 DEG NE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Bluff - Butler Wash Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner International Energy

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • NO RESERVES

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 12.19M
    Overall depth 3.05M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Reserve-Resource

    TRIMBLE, L. M., 1977

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NO VISIBLE MINERALIZATION

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.