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Smoky Mine

Producer in San Juan county in Utah, United States with commodities Uranium, Vanadium, Copper
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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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Production statistics
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10089610
MRDS ID W027675
Record type Site
Current site name Smoky Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.26238, 37.72416 (WGS84)
Elevation 1530
Relative position 10 MILES EAST OF CASTLE BUTTE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Juan(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mancos Mesa NE(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Hite Crossing(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Escalante(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Lake Powell(hydrologic unit)

Upper Colorado-Dirty Devil(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Colorado-Dirty Devil(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 035S 015E 22 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATED IN UNSURVEYED SECTION 22

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Vanadium Critical Tertiary
Copper Tertiary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Shinarump Member Of Chinle Formation
    Rock description Shinarump Member Of Chinle Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.26238, 37.72416
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR, LENS
    Thickness 3.05M
    Length 91.44M
    Width 30.48M
    Depth to top 9.14M
    Depth to bottom 9.14M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Paleochannel, Carbonaceous Material

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No

Mining district

District name White Canyon Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Blake Mining
  • Type Owner
    Owner Donald Blake

Production statistics

  • Year 1977
    Period 1977
    Material U
    Description Cp_Grade: ^.20 % U3o8
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    U3O8 Uranium Uranium 0wt-pct

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Area 0.088HA
    Length 45.72M
    Overall depth 33.53M
    Overall length 60.96M
    Overall width 15.24M

Comments on the workings information

  • OPEN PIT AND INCLINE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    THADEN, R. E., TRITES, A. F., AND FINNEL, T. L., GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE WHITE CANYON AREA, SAN JUAN AND GARFIELD CO'S., UTAH, U.S.G.S. BULL 1125

  • Production

    CONVERSATION JOHN BLAKE - MINE FORMAN

  • Reserve-Resource

    TRIMBLE L. M., 1977

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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

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