CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
84 United States (Utah) 37.48.30 N -- 110.26 W Happy Jack U; Cu
 
Database name: World Sediment-Hosted Cu Deposits
Compilers: R. V. Kirkham, J. J. Carriere, A. Rafer, and P. Born
Release date: 2015-01-27
   
Deposit name(s): Happy Jack
Political location(s): United States; Province or state: Utah; Nearest community: White Canyon
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in lenticular crossbedded conglomeratic sandstone
Commodities: U; Cu
Geological ages: Late Triassic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-conglomerate
Individual lithologies:conglomerate
mudstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Shinarump Member, Chinle Formation

(2) sedimentary; coal
Individual lithologies:coal (coalified woody material)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in lenticular crossbedded conglomeratic sandstone; mine is on west flank of Monument uplift; Shinarump unconformably overlies Moenkopi fm of early-middle Triassic
References:
Miller, L. J., 1955
Uranium Ore Controls of the Happy Jack Deposit, White Canyon, San Juan County, Utah
Economic Geology, Volume 50, p. 156 - 169

Phillips, J. S., 1960
Sandstone-Type Copper Deposits of the Western United States
Ph.D. Thesis, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 320 p.

Stieff, L. R.; Stern, T. W.; Milkey, R. G., 1953
A Preliminary Determination of the Age of Some Uranium Ores of the Colorado Plateau by the Lead-Uranium Method
Circular, United States Geological Survey, Publication code 271, 19 p.


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