Eagle

Past Producer in Garfield county in Utah, United States with commodities Vanadium, 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. Materials information
  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. Reserves and resources
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10097964
MRDS ID DB00609
Record type Site
Current site name Eagle
Alternate or previous names Congress 52
Related records 10252360

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.62767, 37.9736 (WGS84)
Elevation 1615
Relative position 3/4 MILE NW TRACHYTE RANCH

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Garfield(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cass Creek Peak(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 Garfield

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 033S;032S 012E;012E 06;31 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • N - NE OF SECTION 6 AND SE OF SECTION 31

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Vanadium Critical Primary
Uranium Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Gangue

Analytical data

Result GRAB SAMPLES TO 3.49 PERCENT U3O8 AND 4.28 PERCENT V2O5

Host and associated rocks

  • 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
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Henry Mtns. Basin
Type of structure Local
Structure description Joining Of Browns Hole Syncline And East Henry Mtns. Syncline

Ore body information

  • General form LENTICULAR TO TABULAR
    Strike N 5 DEG W
    Dip 3 DEG SW
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 30.48M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Carbon Trash In Sedimentary Channel

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Henry Mtns/East/Trachute

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Donald Hanni

Comments on the production information

  • MAY NOT BE A COMPLETE RECORD

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1973
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Vanadium V2O5 2 wt-pct Vanadium Major 1973
    Uranium U3O8 0.25 wt-pct Uranium Major 1973

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 228.6M

Comments on the workings information

  • MANY ADITS, GOPHER HOLES AND ONE INCLINE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: DOELLING, 1967

  • Deposit

    HUNT, C. B. AND OTHERS, 1953 , GEOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY OF THE HENRY MOUNTAINS REGION UTAH: US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY P. 228 .

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, 1967 , URANIUM DEPOSITS OF GARFIELD CO., UTAH: UTAH GEOL. & MIN. SURVEY SP. ST. 22 .

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, 1975 , GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF GARFIELD CO., UTAH: UTAH GEOL. & MIN. SURVEY BULL. 107 .

  • Deposit

    BROOKE, G. L. AND OTHERS, 1951 , GEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF THE TRACHYTE DISTRICT, HENRY MOUNTAINS, UTAH: USAEC RMO-912 , 7 P.

  • Deposit

    1959 RECON JOHNSON, BULL. 1087-C

  • Deposit

    1967 MINEMAP UGMS - SP. ST. 22

  • Production

    USBM - MAS 147

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1978 Doelling, Hellmut H. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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