Eagle Nest Claim

Past Producer in Uintah 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. Materials information
  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. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10103844
MRDS ID M057655
Record type Site
Current site name Eagle Nest Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.20182, 40.38552 (WGS84)
Relative position NW OF BOURDETTE DRAW

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Uintah(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Split Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Vernal(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Vernal(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Green(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Green(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 Uintah

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 005S 024E 15 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • EXACT LOCATION UNKNOWN

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Carnotite Ore

Analytical data

Result 1957 CHANNEL SAMPLE: 0.06 % U308 , 0.12 % V205

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.20182, 40.38552

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form COATING SAND GRAINS AND FRACTURES IN SILICIFIED LOGS

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Carbon Trash, Permeability Of Host Rock, And Possibly Mud Galls And Interstitial Clay

Comments on the geologic information

  • URANIUM MINERALS ASSOCIATED WITH CARBONACEOUS MATERIAL IN SANDSTONE LENS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Bourdette Draw

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DASCH, M.D., 1967 , URANIUM DEP OF NE & W UTAH: UTAH GEOL SOC GUIDEBOOK #21 , P. 118

  • Deposit

    PRUITT, R.G. JR, 1961 , MINERAL RESOURCES OF UINTAH CO.: UGMS BULL 71 , P. 92

  • Deposit

    NOBLE, E.A. AND ANNES, E.C. JR, 1957 , RECON FOR URANIUM IN UINTA BASIN OF COLORADO AND UTAH: USAEC (PUBLICATIONS) RME-94 , P. 11

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1979 Wong, George (Tooker, Ed) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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