About the Geology

The majority of Colorado Plateau U-V deposits are hosted in either Jurassic or older Triassic rocks, or in younger Cenozoic/Tertiary rocks. With uranium mineralization found in the district in Miocene Rocks at the Maybell Mine (34 km north of Coyote Basin) and in Upper Cretaceous rocks at the Red Wash Property, all sandstone units stratigraphy in the area should be considered highly prospective for uranium-vanadium deposits. The Fort Union and Wasatch Formations are severely underexplored outside Wyoming yet are the key host formations for US ISR production from the prolific uranium-producing Powder River Basin. These two formations are found on both projects where they are documented to host uranium showings and the historical Coyote Basin uranium-vanadium deposit.