Utah · San Juan County
Past Producer
Big Buck Mine
San Juan County, Utah, United States
Vanadium
Uranium
Copper
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Description
Standard Uranium Corp.
Commodities
Primary
Vanadium, Uranium
Tertiary
Copper
Commodity type
M
Deposit
Deposit size
L
Workings
Underground
Orebody form
TABULAR, LENS, PODS, IRREGULAR
Materials
Ore minerals
Carnotite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Copper, Malachite, Montroseite, Uraninite
Gangue
Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Geology
Host rock
Sandstone · Cutler Formation
Structure
Stable Platform, Thicker Portions Of Sandstone, Enriched Along Fractures
Economic & production
Development status
Past Producer
First production
1955
Discovery year
1954
Identification
Deposit ID
10015059
MRDS ID
DB00061
Alternate names
Standard
Region
NA
Data score
C
Coordinates
38.18749, -109.25819
References
UGMS STUDY - 1973JONES, H., 1978