1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Cactus Rat Group

Past Producer in Grand county in Utah, United States with commodities Uranium, Vanadium
Map
XML
JSON
KML
B
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 10089513
MRDS ID W027227
Record type Site
Current site name Cactus Rat Group
Related records 10154749

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.48514, 38.85109 (WGS84)
Relative position APPROX. 1.5 MILES NORTH OF YELLOW CAT RESERVOIR

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grand(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cisco SW(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Moab(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Moab(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Westwater Canyon(hydrologic unit)

Upper Colorado-Dolores(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Colorado-Dolores(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 Grand

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 022S 022E 33 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS: NW 1/4 SE 1/4 NE 1/4 OF SEC 33

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Vanadium Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Carnotite Ore
Tyuyamunite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Slight Bleaching

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 > Siltstone
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Saltwash Member, Morrison Sandstone Formation
    Rock description Saltwash Mbr., Morrison Sandstone Formation
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Conglomerate

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.48514, 38.85109
ListMap

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR, ROLL
    Strike N 45 DEG W
    Dip 4 DEG NE
    Thickness 0.61M
    Length 304.8M
    Width 213.36M
    Depth to top 1.52M
    Depth to bottom 15.24M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Lithology

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Thompson, Yellow Cat District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Amax, Inc.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Atlas Minerals Corp.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Area 0.009HA
    Length 609.6M
    Overall depth 6.1M
    Overall length 60.96M
    Overall width 15.24M

Comments on the workings information

  • MINE CONSISTS OF NUMEROUS TRENCHES AND ADITS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    1959 RECON GARRELS, R. M. AND LARSEN, F. S., P.P. 320 , PG 65 - 78

  • Reserve-Resource

    MC CARTHY, B. M.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1977 Mc Carthy, Blair M. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

  • Amax, Inc. — now part of Subsidiary of Freeport-McMoRan (2007)
    Merged with Cyprus Minerals to form Cyprus Amax in 1993; Cyprus Amax → Phelps Dodge (1999) → Freeport-McMoRan (2007).
  • Atlas Minerals Corp. — dissolved ~1998
    Atlas Corporation filed Chapter 11 in 1998 amid uranium-mine reclamation liabilities. Mining assets were dispersed in bankruptcy.

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.

Maps centered on this site