Cedar Point Group

Past Producer in Garfield county in Utah, United States with commodities Uranium, Copper, Vanadium
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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Reserves and resources
  19. Workings at the site
  20. Links to other databases
  21. Bibliographic references
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10098004
MRDS ID DB01563
Record type Site
Current site name Cedar Point Group
Alternate or previous names Poison Springs 1 and 2
Related records 10154649

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.41489, 38.07971 (WGS84)
Elevation 1305
Relative position 1 MILE SW OF POISON SPRINGS CANYON-DIRTY DEVIL RIVER CONFLUENCE.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Garfield(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Stair Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Hanksville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Salina(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Dirty Devil(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 031S 014E 30 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED SECTION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Copper Tertiary
Vanadium Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Malachite Ore
Torbernite Ore
Uraninite Ore
Gypsum Gangue
Limonite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Bleaching

Analytical data

Result GRAB SAMPLES UP TO 11.4 PERCENT CU

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Mudstone
    Rock unit name Monitor Butte Member/Chinle Formation;Moenkopi Formation
    Rock description Monitor Butte Mbr/Chinle Formation;Moenkopi Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.41489, 38.07971

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description West Flank Monument Upwarp

Ore body information

  • General form LENTICULAR
    Strike NORTH
    Dip 2 DEG W
    Thickness 0.61M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 60.96M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Sedimentary (Fluvial) Channel

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Henry Mtns/Orange Cliffs

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Silver Bell Industries
  • Type Owner
    Owner Kay Hunt
    Home office Hanksville

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1973
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Uranium U3O8 0.1 wt-pct Uranium Major 1973

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 91.44M

Comments on the workings information

  • 2 ADITS AND 1 DOG HOLE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: DOELLING, H. H., 1967 , P. 98

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, H. H., 1967 , URANIUM DEPOSITS OF GARFIELD COUNTY, UTAH: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY SPECIAL STUDIES 22 .

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, H. H., 1975 , GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF GARFIELD COUNTY, UTAH: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY BULL. 107 .

  • Deposit

    BAKER, A. A., 1946 , GEOLOGY OF THE GREEN RIVER DESERT-CATARACT CANYON REGION, EMERY, WAYNE, AND GARFIELD COUNTIES, UTAH: US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 951 .

  • Deposit

    1967 MINEMAP UGMS SP. ST. 22

  • Deposit

    1973 RECON UGMS FOR USBM-MAS

  • Production

    USBM-MAS 92

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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