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Ringtail

Past Producer in Grand county in Utah, United States with commodities Uranium, Vanadium
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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. 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 10089526
MRDS ID W027259
Record type Site
Current site name Ringtail

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.54042, 38.84748 (WGS84)
Elevation 1420
Relative position 2.2 MILES NORTHEAST OF MOLLIE HOGANS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grand(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mollie Hogans(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Moab(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Moab(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Colorado-Kane Springs(hydrologic unit)

Upper Colorado-Dolores(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Colorado-Dolores(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Grand

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 022S 021E 36 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION: NW 1/4 NE 1/4 SE 1/4 OF SEC 36

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Vanadium Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Carnotite Ore
Tyuyamunite Ore
Uraninite 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 Salt Wash Member of Morrison Formation
    Rock description Salt Wash Member of Morrison Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.54042, 38.84748
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Thompsons - Yellow Cat District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Atlas Minerals Corp.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • RESERVES UNKNOWN DUE TO MINE INACCESSIBILITY

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 914.4M
    Overall depth 45.72M

Comments on the workings information

  • ACCESS BY SHAFT. WORKINGS REPORTED TO BE FLOODED. WORKINGS INACCESSIBLE. LENGTH INFORMATION FROM UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY INVESTIGATION, 1973

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    STOKES, W. L., 1952 , URANIUM - VANADIUM DEPOSITS OF THE THOMPSONS AREA GRAND COUNTY, UTAH: UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY BULL. 46 , 51 P

  • Reserve-Resource

    MC CARTHY, B. M., 1977

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSIT INFORMATION UNAVAILABLE DUE TO INACCESSIBILITY

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:

  • 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.

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