Mine detail: Dirty Devil 6

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Location

Lat / long: 38.69025, -110.98796

Resource(M)

Primary: Uranium
Secondary: Vanadium
Tertiary: Copper
Ore: Carnotite, Tyuyamunite
Gangue: Galena, Marcasite, Pyrite
Orebody form: TABULAR, BLANKET
Other material: Sphalerite
Discovery year: 1951

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Medium
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1952

Geology

Host rock:Chinle Formation-Moss Back Member
Host type:Conglomerate
Structure:San Rafael Swell
Tectonic:Stable Platform
Alteration processes:Bleaching Of Sandstone, Mudstone

References

MRDSW018762
DEP10072997
Reference{Deposit:: HAWLEY, C. C., AND OTHERS, 1968, GEOLOGY, ALTERED ROCKS OF THE SAN RAFAEL SWELL, EMERY COUNTY, UTAH, USGS BULL. 1239}{Deposit:: BAIN, G. W., 1952, URANIUM IN THE DIRTY DEVIL, SHINARUMP CHANNEL DEPOSIT: US AEC RMO-66}{Deposit:: REYNER, M. L., 1950, PRELIMINARY REPORT ON SOME URANIUM DEPOSITS ALOG THE WEST SIDE OF THE SAN RAFAEL SWELL, EMERY CO., UTAH, US AEC RMO-673}{Deposit:: 1950 RECON US AEC RMO}{Deposit:: 1952 RECON US AEC RMO}{Deposit:: 1968 COMPILE HAWLEY, BULLETIN}
ReporterTrimble, Larry M.