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Vandergilt #5 Mines

Past Producer in Washington county in Utah, United States with commodities Silver, Copper, Uranium
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10015419
MRDS ID DB01050
Record type Site
Current site name Vandergilt #5 Mines

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.33386, 37.22304 (WGS84)
Elevation 1012
Relative position 1.9 MILES SE OF LEEDS UTAH.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Washington(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hurricane(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Saint George(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Cedar City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Virgin(hydrologic unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management UT)

Bureau of Land Management UT BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Washington

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 041S 013W 17 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION: SE 1/4 SW 1/4 NE 1/4 SEC. 17

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Copper Tertiary
Uranium Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cerargyrite Ore
Malachite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Mudstone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Moenave Formation
    Rock description Moenave Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.33386, 37.22304
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Virgin Anticline

Ore body information

  • General form LENS
    Thickness 1.22M
    Width 100M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Carbonaceous Material, Clay Galls

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Harrisburg District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Marks, Herman (Family)

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 106.68M
    Overall depth 18.29M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PROCTOR, P. D., 1953 , GEOLOGY OF THE SILVER REEF (HARRISBURG) MINING DISTRICT, WASHINGTON COUNTY, UTAH: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERALOG. SURVEY , BULL. 44

  • Deposit

    1953 COMPILE UGMS BULLETIN 4

  • Production

    PERRY, L. I., 1979

  • Reserve-Resource

    TRIMBLE, L. M., 1979

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1979 Trimble, Larry M. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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