Durkee District

Past Producer in Piute county in Utah, United States with commodities Aluminum, Uranium, Silver, Iron, Fluorine-Fluorite, Molybdenum
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Alteration
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Geologic structures
  9. Controls for ore emplacement
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60001002
MRDS ID M057749
Record type District
Current site name Durkee District

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.21638, 38.50187 (WGS84)
Relative position PRINCIPAL MINES IN THE DISTRICT ARE FREEDOM, BULLION MONARCH, PROSPECTOR, YELLOW CANARY, WHITE HORSE, IRON DUKE AND THE J & L MINE.; PREVIOUS QUAD DESIGNATION = MARYSVALE, 1947 1:625000

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Piute(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Antelope Range(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Richfield(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

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Aluminum Critical Primary
Uranium Primary
Silver Secondary
Iron Secondary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Tertiary
Molybdenum Tertiary

Alteration

  • (Local) ARGILLIC
  • (Local) SILICIFICATION

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.21638, 38.50187

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure name FAULTING
Structure description N-S FAULTS DIPPING 80 W

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault/fracture

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both

Mining district

District name DURKEE DISTRICT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CALLAGHAN, E., 1973 , MINERAL RESOURCE POTENTIAL OF PIUTE CO. AND ADJACENT AREAS: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN SURV. BULL. 102 .

  • Deposit

    KERR, P. F., 1957 , MARYSVALE, UTAH, URANIUM AREA: GEOL. SOC. OF AM. SPECIAL PAPER 64 .

  • Deposit

    WILLARD, M. E., AND CALLAGHAN, E., 1962 , GEOLOGY OF THE MARYSVALE QUAD: USGS MAP GQ-154 .

  • Deposit

    DASCH, M. D., 1967 , URANIUM DEPOSITS OF NORTHEASTERN AND WESTERN UTAH: UTAH GEOL. SOC. GUIDEBOOK NO. 21.

  • Deposit

    BULLOCK, K. C., 1976 , FLUORITE OCCURRENCES IN UTAH: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURV. BULL. 110.

  • Deposit

    TAYLOR, A.D., AND OTHERS, 1951 , GEOL. AND URANIUM DEPOSITS OF MARYSVALE: USAEC RMO-896.

  • Deposit

    KERR, P. F., 1968 , THE MARYSVALE, UTAH URANIUM DEPOSITS, IN J. D. RIDGE, ED., ORE DEPOSITS IN THE US: AIME ( GRATON-SALES VOLUME 2 ), P. 1020 - 1042.

  • Deposit

    THOENEN, JR., 1941 , ALUNITE RESOURCES OF THE US: USBM REPT. INV. 3561.

  • Deposit

    HILD, J. H., 1946 , EXPLORATION OF ALUNITE DEPOSITS, MARYSVALE: USBM REPT. INV. 3972.

  • Deposit

    GRUNER, J. W., AND OTHERS, 1951 , URANIUM DEPOSITS NEAR MARYSVALE: ECON GEOL. VOL. 46 , NO. 3 , P. 250 .

Beyond USGS

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