Sunnyside-Vca Shaft Workings

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. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10097962
MRDS ID DB00555
Record type Site
Current site name Sunnyside-Vca Shaft Workings
Alternate or previous names Etta

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.21467, 38.49803 (WGS84)
Elevation 2073
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)

Federal lands

BLM Administrative Area(land status)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Piute

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 027S 003W 04 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS: NW 1/4 NW 1/4 SE 1/4 SEC. 4 .

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Tertiary
Molybdenum Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Ore
Uraninite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Argillic Alteration

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Rock unit name Central Intrusive
    Rock description Central Intrusive
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • 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 Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.21467, 38.49803

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Bullion Fault, Cloys Fault, Seegmiller Vein, Bertleson Vein.

Ore body information

  • General form PINCH AND SWELL
    Plunge 90 DEG
    Plunge direction N 40 DEG E
    Thickness 3.05M
    Length 396.24M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fractures, Faults

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Durfee District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Energy Fuels

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 1066.8M
    Overall depth 213.36M

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.