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East Cliffhouse # 5

Past Producer in San Juan 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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10106044
MRDS ID W027416
Record type Site
Current site name East Cliffhouse # 5
Alternate or previous names Hope, Sage, Stone Age, Sad Sak

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.16124, 37.65806 (WGS84)
Elevation 1707
Relative position 4.6 MILES EAST OF DALTONS RANCH

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Juan(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Horsehead Point(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Blanding(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Cortez(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Montezuma(hydrologic unit)

Lower San Juan(hydrologic accounting unit)

San Juan(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 025E 15 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS: SE 1/4 SE 1/4 NW 1/4 SEC. 15

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Vanadium Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Carnotite Ore
Roscoelite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Bleaching In Mudstone, Sandstone

Analytical data

Result .218 % U3O8 , .59 % V2O5

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) -109.16124, 37.65806
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form ROLL
    Strike N 57 DEG E
    Dip 1 DEG SE
    Thickness 1.83M
    Length 30.48M
    Width 15.24M
    Depth to top 4.57M
    Depth to bottom 9.14M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Montezuma Canyon

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Jim Butt

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Area 0.066HA
    Length 82.3M
    Overall depth 12.19M
    Overall length 30.48M
    Overall width 22.86M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HUFF, L. C., LESURE, F. G., 1965 , GEOLOGY AND URANIUM DEPOSITS OF MONTEZUMA CANYON AREA, SAN JUAN CO., UTAH, USGS BULL. 1190 , 102 P

  • Production

    UGMS STUDY - 1973

  • Reserve-Resource

    TRIMBLE, L. M., 1977

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1977 Trimble, Larry M. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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

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