RECONNAISSANCE OF THE URANIUM DEPOSITS OF THE LOCKHART CANYON - INDIAN CREEK AREA SAN JUAN COUNTY, UTAH

Abstract

Copper-uranium mineralization in the Bogus Tongue member of the cutler formation in the Lockhart Canyon-Indian Creek area is probably one of the initial uranium discoveries in the Cutler formation on the Colorado Plateau. The deposits were found by an airborne survey. Mineralization occurs in discontinuous lenses of arkose that outcrop intermittently from the mouth of Hart Draw in Indian Creek to the confluence of Cane Creek and the Colorado River. The mineralized arkoses occur at various stragigraphic levels in the Bogus Tongue of the Cutler formation. The economic importance of the deposits is somewhat curtailed by the rough terrain and lack or access roads.