Freedom, Farmerjohn, Wilhelm

Past Producer in Piute county in Utah, United States with commodities Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Molybdenum
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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Production statistics
  19. Workings at the site
  20. Links to other databases
  21. Bibliographic references
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10088073
MRDS ID DB00524
Record type Site
Current site name Freedom, Farmerjohn, Wilhelm
Alternate or previous names Bullion Monarch

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.21856, 38.49997 (WGS84)
Elevation 1996
Relative position 3.5 MILES NORTH OF MARYSVALE, UTAH

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Piute(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Marysvale(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Beaver(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Sevier(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Piute

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 027S 003W 05 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION: NE 1/4 NE 1/4 NE 1/4 SEC. 5

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary
Molybdenum Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Alunite Gangue
Marcasite Gangue
Opal Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Pyrolusite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Argillic Alteration

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Rock unit name Mt. Belknap Volcanics;Central Intrusive;Pre Belknap
    Rock description Mt. Belknap Volcanics;Central Intrusive;Pre Belknap
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Volcanic Breccia (Agglomerate)
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Volcanic Breccia (Agglomerate)
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.21856, 38.49997

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Monarch Fault, Bullion Fault, Cloys Fault, Gloss Dikes, No. 1 And 2 Veins, Contact

Ore body information

  • General form PINCH AND SWELL
    Plunge 90 DEG
    Plunge direction N 40 DEG E
    Thickness 18.29M
    Length 487.68M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Flourite, Veins, Joint Intersections

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Large
Significant No
Discovery year 1948
Discoverer Pratt Seegmiller
Year of first production 1950

Mining district

District name Durfee District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Energy Fuels

Production statistics

  • Year 1973
    Period To 1973
    Material U
    Accuracy Accurate
    Description Cp_Grade: ^.20 - .25 % U3o8
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    U3O8 Uranium Uranium 0wt-pct

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 8839.2M
    Overall depth 274.32M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1978 Trimble, Larry M. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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