Mine detail: Aceite #2 Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 38.85136, -110.3399

Resource(M)

Primary: Uranium
Secondary: Vanadium
Ore: Carnotite
Gangue: Calcite, Limonite
Orebody form: PINCH AND SWELL OR LENTICULAR
Discovery year: 1953

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Large
Development status: Past Producer

Geology

Host rock:Salt Wash Member of Morrison Formation
Host type:Mudstone,Sandstone
Structure:San Rafael Swell, (Anticline), Paradox Fold - And Fault Belt, Periodic Folds In Sub - Morrison Sediments
Tectonic:Stable Platform
Alteration processes:Bleaching In Mudstone And Sandstone

References

MRDSW014771
DEP10071401
Reference{Deposit:: TRIMBLE, L. M. AND H. H. DOELLING, 1976, GEOLOGY AND URANIUM ORE DEPOSITS OF THE SAN RAFAEL RIVER MINING AREA: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SUR. BULLETIN (UNPUBLISHED)}{Deposit:: YOUNG, R. G. AND OTHERS, 1957, GEOLOGY OF THE SAN RAFAEL RIVER DESERT MINING DISTRICT, EMERY AND GRAND CO., UTAH: USAEC RME - 98}{Deposit:: CRAIG, L. C., AND D. D. DICKEY, 1956, JURASSIC STRATA OF SOUTHEASTERN UTAH AND SOUTHWESTERN COLO.: IAPG GUIDEBOOK, 7TH ANN. FIELD CONF. PP. (93 - 104)}{Deposit:: STOKES, W. L., 1952, LOWER CRETACEOUS IN COLORADO PLATEAU: AAPG BULLETIN, VOL. 36 PP. 1766 - 1776}{Deposit:: 1956 RECON IAPG - PAPER - 7TH ANN FIELD CONF.}{Deposit:: 1957 OTHER USAEC - UNPUBLISHED REPORT}{Deposit:: JENSEN, H. N. 1953 RECONNAISSANCE OF THE SAN RAFAEL RIVER MINING AREA, EMERY CO., UTAH: USAEC RME - 98; MILLION, I, 1957, RECONNAISSANCE OF AND INVESTIGATIONAL DRILLING FOR URANIUM DEPOSITS IN THE SAN RAFAEL RIVER DESERT, UTAH: USAEC RME - 102.}{Deposit:: 1976 OTHER UGMS - BULLETIN (UNPUBLISHED) 1976}{Production:: UGMS - 1973}
ReporterTrimble, Larry M.