Dream Mine

Past Producer in San Juan county in Utah, United States with commodities Gold, Lead, Zinc, Copper
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. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10089551
MRDS ID W027365
Record type Site
Current site name Dream Mine
Related records 10202967

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.48347, 37.81861 (WGS84)
Elevation 2829
Relative position 1.8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ABAJO PEAK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Juan(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Abajo Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Blanding(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

Manti-La Sal National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah San Juan

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 034S 022E 15 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION: NE 1/4 , SE 1/4 , SE 1/4 , SEC. 15 UNSURVEYED

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Secondary
Lead Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Gold Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Limonite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Morrison Formation;Diorite Porphyry Laccolith
    Rock description Morrison Formation;Diorite Porphyry Laccolith

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.48347, 37.81861

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 60.96M
    Length 152.4M
    Width 60.96M
    Depth to top 1.52M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fissure Veins

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1893
Discoverer C. A. Cooley, S. J. Houser

Mining district

District name Abajo Mountains

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Marvin C. Lyman

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 609.6M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF NUMEROUS ADITS AND SHAFTS, ALL OF WHICH ARE CAVED. WORKINGS LENGTH INFORMATION IS FROM LITERATURE AND REPORTEDLY CONSISTS OF 3 LEVELS WITH CROSSCUTS AND TWO SHAFTS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WHITKIND, I. J., 1964 , GEOLOGY OF THE ABAJO MOUNTAINS AREA, SAN JUAN COUNTY, UTAH, U. S. G. S. PROFESSIONAL PAPER 453

  • Deposit

    1964 RECON WHITKIND, I. J., GEOLOGY OF THE ABAJO MOUNTAIN

  • Reserve-Resource

    LEE I. PERRY, 1977

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSIT IS IN A SYSTEM OF FISSURE VEINS. THE MOST VALUABLE ORE IS REPORTED TO BE NEAR THE SURFACE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1977 Perry, Lee I. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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

External references