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Sunny Slope Deposit

Occurrence in Piute county in Utah, United States with commodities Aluminum, Potassium
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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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10094253
MRDS ID D002007
Record type Site
Current site name Sunny Slope Deposit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.24606, 38.48858 (WGS84)
Elevation 1847
Relative position 2.8 MI. N OF MARYSVALE

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)

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 Piute

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 027S 003W 06 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • W SIDE OF US HIGHWAY 89 AT THE HEAD OF A GULLY.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Aluminum Critical Tertiary
Potassium Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • PROJECT 9350 - 01393 ALUNITE RESOURCES

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Alunite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Alunitization Of Latite And Tuff

Analytical data

Result ANALYSES INDICATES APPROXIMATELY 15 % ALUNITE

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Latite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Latite
    Rock unit name Bullion Canyon Volcanics
    Rock description Bullion Canyon Volcanics

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.24606, 38.48858
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Thickness 15.24M
    Length 60.96M
    Width 45.72M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Discovery year 1915

Mining district

District name Marysvale Region/Henry District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • HALL'S ESTIMATE BASED ON CALLAGHAN'S ( 1973 ) REPORT OF A "FEW THOUSAND TONS CONTAINING 6.1 PERCENT SO3" .

Comments on the workings information

  • BELL'S MAP SHOWS SHORT ADIT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Discovery Year: WW1

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1975 Hall, Robert B. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1978 Starritt, Bruce C. U.S. Geological Survey

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

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