Glider Mine

Past Producer in Beaver county in Utah, United States with commodity Uranium
Sections on this page
  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. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021157
MRDS ID DC15087
Record type Site
Current site name Glider Mine
Alternate or previous names Camino Claims
Related records 10227224

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.56218, 38.37608 (WGS84)
Elevation 2176
Relative position 7,000 FT SW OF TANNER MTN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaver(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pole Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Beaver(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Beaver Bottoms-Upper Beaver(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Fishlake National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Beaver

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 028S 006W 17 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS NW 1/4 SW 1/4 NW 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • MINOR GOLD VALVES REPORTED

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Calcite Gangue
Fluorite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Rock unit name Mt Belknap Rhyolite
    Rock description Mt Belknap Rhyolite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Latite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.56218, 38.37608

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Marysvale Volcanic Field. Pioche-Marysvale Mineral Belt
Type of structure Local
Structure description Faulting (N-S) At 90 Deg

Ore body information

  • General form VEIN

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fractures

Comments on the geologic information

  • LOCATED WITHIN A ZONE OF NORTH-SOUTH STRIKING NORMALFAULTS (DOWN-TO-THE-WEST).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Newton District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Lessing And V. S. Littlefield

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Area 0.001HA
    Overall length 4.57M
    Overall width 3.05M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CUNNINGHAM, C.G., AND STEVEN, T.A.,1980, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE BEAVER NE QUADRANGLE, WEST-CENTRAL UTAH: U.S. GEOLI. -SURVEY MAP MF-1191

  • Deposit

    ELEVATORSKI, A. E., 1982, VOLCANOGENIC GOLD DEPOSITS: MINOBRAS PUBLICATION, AVAILABLE FROM MINOBRAS, P. O. BOX 262-, DANA POINT, CA., 92629

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 02-11-1971

  • Production

    EVERTS, M L, 1979, ON-SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit FLOODED

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1979 Everts, Michael L. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUL-1985 Shubat, Michael A. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references