The Evelyn Mine is a vanadium and uranium mine located in McKinley county, New Mexico at an elevation of 7,241 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 7,241 Feet (2,207 Meters)
Commodity: Vanadium, Uranium
Lat, Long: 35.46111, -108.01250
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Evelyn Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Evelyn Mine
Secondary: Patented Claim: No Name Listed In Literature
Commodity
Primary: Vanadium
Primary: Uranium
Location
State: New Mexico
County: McKinley
District: Grants Uranium District: Smith Lake Subdistrict
Land Status
Land ownership: Private
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: Clark And Co.
Home Office: Grand Junction, Co.
Production
Year: 1972
Time Period: 1953 To 1972
Description: Cp_Grade: ^0.23 Percent U3o8
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Stratiform
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1955
Year Last Production: 1972
Discovery Year: 1954
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Colorado Plateaus
Physiographic Section: Datil Section
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Form: TABULAR
Structure
Type: R
Description: Bluewater Fault
Type: L
Description: North-Trending East-Facing Fault Scarp In The Upthrown Block Of The Bluewater Fault
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Sandstone
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Jurassic
Name: Sandstone
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Jurassic
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Coffinite
Ore: Tyuyamunite
Comments
Comment (Deposit): THE DEPOSIT CONSISTS OF SEVERAL ORE BODIES, ASSOCIATED WITH ABUNDANT CARBONIZED AND MACERATED PLANT DEBRIS, LOCATED MAINLY IN THE CENTRAL PART OF A SANDSTONE LENS. HOLMQUIST (1970, P. 28) REPORTS THE ENTIRE SECTION IS PATENTED. HE GIVES NO PATENT NAME
Comment (Location): LOCATION IS ESTIMATED FROM MCLEMORE'S (1983) DATA. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1979
Comment (Production): PRODUCTION WAS INTERMITTENT AND TOTALLED 10,743 TONS OF ORE.
Comment (Workings): WORKINGS CONSIST OF ONE 350-FT ADIT, TWO 30-FT ADITS, AND ONE 40-FT ADIT THERE ARE SEVERAL 18-INCH DIAMETER METAL-LINED VENTILATION SHAFTS ABOVE AND WEST OF THE MINE ENTRANCE. ALL OF THE ADITS WERE DRIVEN WESTWARD.
Comment (Geology): THE DEPOSIT OCCURS IN THE BRUSHY BASIN MEMBER OF THE MORRISON FORMATION
References
Reference (Deposit): NMBMMR GENERAL FILE DATA
Reference (Deposit): MCLEMORE, V.T., 1983, NMBMMR OFR-183, APPENDIX 1
Reference (Deposit): ANDERSON, O.J., 1980, NMBMMR OFR-148
Reference (Deposit): HOLMQUIST, R.J., 1970, USAEC RME-172, P. 28
Reference (Deposit): HILPERT, L.S., 1969, USGS PP 603, P. 41
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