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Rimrock

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10106014
MRDS ID W026945
Record type Site
Current site name Rimrock
Alternate or previous names Skyrock Fraction

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.14125, 38.6872 (WGS84)
Elevation 2134
Relative position 1.8 MILES SSE OF COWHEAD HILL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grand(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Fisher Valley(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Moab(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Moab(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Dolores(hydrologic unit)

Upper Colorado-Dolores(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Colorado-Dolores(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 Grand

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 024S 025E 26 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION: NW 1/4 NW 1/4 SW 1/4 OF SEC. 26

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Vanadium Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Carnotite Ore
Hematite Gangue
Limonite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Mudstone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
  • 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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.14125, 38.6872
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR, BLANKET
    Strike N 55 DEG W
    Dip 2 DEG NE
    Thickness 1.83M
    Length 152.4M
    Width 91.44M
    Depth to top 0.61M
    Depth to bottom 10.67M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Discovery year 1940

Mining district

District name Gateway District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Atlas Corp.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • ORE BED IS NEAR-SURFACE AND COULD BE STRIP MINED

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Area 0.602HA
    Length 518.16M
    Overall depth 9.14M
    Overall length 90M
    Overall width 73.15M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF OPEN-PIT WORK, SEVERAL CAVED AND PARTLY CAVED ADITS AND ONE SHALLOW INCLINE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    EICHER, L.J. AND MILLER, G.A., 1956 , GATEWAY DISTRICT, MESA CO. COLORADO AND GRAND CO. UTAH, IN GEOLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS OF RADIOACTIVE DEPOSITS, US AEC TEI 620

  • Deposit

    1946 DIREXPL U.S.B.M., REPT. OF INVES. 393

  • Reserve-Resource

    MC CARTHY, B.M., 1977

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1977 Mc Carthy, Blair M. Bureau of Land Management

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