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Temple Mountain Deposit

Past Producer in Emery county in Utah, United States with commodities Vanadium, Uranium, Gold, Silver
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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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Reserves and resources
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10072266
MRDS ID W017252
Record type Deposit
Current site name Temple Mountain Deposit
Alternate or previous names Temple Mtn. Mines, Temple Mountain, Temple Mtn., Temple Mt. Mines

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.681, 38.69 (WGS84)
Relative position TEMPLE MOUNTAIN IS MOST PROMINENT LANDMARK ATOP SAN RAFAEL REEF IN SINBAD COUNTRY. Coordinates are for summit

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Emery(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Temple Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

San Rafael Desert(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Salina(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Muddy(hydrologic unit)

Upper Colorado-Dirty Devil(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Colorado-Dirty Devil(hydrologic subregion)

Upper 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 Emery

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 24S 11E 26, 27, 34, 35 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • NO UTM COORDINATES OR SECTION-RANGE-TOWNSHIP IDENTIFICATION MARKS WERE GIVEN IN ORIGINAL MRDS RECORD. TEMPLE MOUNTAIN IS A PROMINENT MOUNT IN EMERY COUNTY. Summit is near the shared section corners of Secs. 26, 27, 34, and 35.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Vanadium Critical Primary
Uranium Primary
Gold Secondary
Silver Secondary

Comments on the commodity information

  • "Vanadium-uranium deposits occur mostly at Temple Mountain. The vanadium:uranium ratio here is about 3 to 1, and the uranium ore is principally uraninite associated with carbonaceous material. Corvusite, rauvite, uvanite, carnotite, tyuyamunite, fourmarierite, abernathyite, and monstroseite occur as accessory uranium- and vanadium-beraing mienrals." (Johnson, 1957, Bull. 1046-D, p. 47)

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Uraninite Ore
Corvusite Ore
Rauvite Ore
Uvanite Ore
Carnotite Ore
Tyuyamunite Ore
Fourmarierite Ore
Abernathyite Ore
Montroseite Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.681, 38.69
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Name Temple Mountain Deposit

Comments on the ore body information

  • Johnson (1957, p. 47) "considered the Temple Mountain deposits as one big deposit containing many ore bodies jioned by weakly mineralized ground."

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Production years 1918-1956, intermittently

Comments on the production information

  • "The Temple Mountain deposits were mined for radium and possibly byproduct vanadium during the period of Wold Waqr I. [...] In 1948, Temple Mountain was the only producing area in the San Rafael district. The next year there was small production from three deposits other than those in Temple Mountain proper. In 1950 and 1951, Temple Mountain was the major producer in the area with small shimpments being made from about 10 other deposits. From 1952 to 1956, prduction has come from 2 big mines (the Temple Mountian deposits and the Delta mine), ... [Johnson, Bull 1046-D, p. 40]. Production was >1000 tons (Chew, 1956).

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1948
    Remarks approximate grade > 0.1% U3O8 (Source is deleted record 10108756, there is no citable reference. Short Ref 1046-D should be deleted as the source).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Location

    Chew, R.T., III, compiler, 1956, Uranium and vanadium deposits of the colorado Plateau that producedd more than 1,000 tons of ore through June 30, 1955: U.S. Geological Survey MF-54, scale 1:750,000.

  • Geology

    Weeks, A.D., and Thompson, M.E., 1954, Identification and occrennce of uranium and vanadium minerals from the Colorado Plateau: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1009-B, p. 13-62.

  • Deposit

    Johnson, H.S., Jr., 1957, Uranium resources of the San Rafael District, Emery County, Utah--A regional synthesis: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1046-D, p. 37-54.

  • Deposit

    CONS. DIV COMP. DATE, 10-30-1970, 09-21-1970.

  • Deposit

    HILPEERT'S FILE, USGS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-76 Weeks, Robert U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-APR-94 Humphries, S. E. (Marcus, S.) U.S. Geological Survey
Editor 07-NOV-11 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey merged and deleted multiple duplicate records.
Reporter 01-JUN-74 Conservation Division Files U.S. Geological Survey DC13697, DC13696, DC13781, DC13698, DC13779.

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