Rusty Little Mae

Producer in San Juan county in Utah, United States with commodity Uranium
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. Alteration
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  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 10089635
MRDS ID W027778
Record type Site
Current site name Rusty Little Mae
Alternate or previous names Mar Mac
Related records 10276648

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.19793, 37.66221 (WGS84)
Elevation 1719
Relative position 1.7 MILES SE OF SOLDIER CROSSING

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Juan(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Jacobs Chair(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 036S 016E Utah

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED SECTION 18

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Alteration

  • (Local) Bleaching Mudstone

Analytical data

Result U3O8 = .030 %, V2O5 = .008

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.19793, 37.66221

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Stable Platform

Ore body information

  • General form LENS, IRREGULAR, TABULAR
    Strike N 30 DEG E
    Dip 2 DEG W
    Thickness 2.44M
    Depth to top 3.66M
    Depth to bottom 18.29M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Paleochannel

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Large
Significant No

Mining district

District name White Canyon District, White Canyon Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Mar Mac Uranium

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 18.29M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: SAMPLE H11A, 15 GRAB AROUND 40 ST STOCK PILE

  • Deposit

    THADEN, R. E., TRITES, A. F., AND FINNELL, T. L., 1964 , GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE WHITE CANYON AREA, SAN JUAN AND GARFIELD COS., UTAH, U.S.G.S. BULL 1125

  • Deposit

    FINNELL, T. L., FRANKS, P. C., AND HUBBARD, H. A., 1963 , GEOLOGY, ORE DEPOSITS AND EXPLORATORY DRILLING IN THE DEER FLAT AREA, WHITE CANYON DIST., SAN JUAN CO., UTAH, U.S.G.S. BULL. 1132

  • Production

    U.G.M.S. STUDY, 1973

  • Reserve-Resource

    JONES, H., 1977

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1977 Jones, Harold H. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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