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Upper and Lower Cloys

Past Producer in Piute county in Utah, United States with commodities Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite
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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. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10015448
MRDS ID DB01155
Record type Site
Current site name Upper and Lower Cloys

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.21578, 38.50191 (WGS84)
Elevation 2088
Relative position 3.4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF POVERTY FLAT RANCH.

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

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 026S 004W 27 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION: SE 1/4 , SE 1/4 , SE 1/4 SEC. 27

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Argillic Alteration

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Volcanic Breccia (Agglomerate)
    Rock unit name Pre Belknap Volcanics
    Rock description Pre Belknap Volcanics
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Volcanic Breccia (Agglomerate)

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.21578, 38.50191
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Cloys Fault

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Thickness 15.24M
    Length 60.96M
    Depth to top 0M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Discovery year 1959
Discoverer Vanadium Corp. Of America
Year of first production 1959

Mining district

District name Henry District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Energy Fuels

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 121.92M
    Overall depth 76.2M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Reserve-Resource

    TRIMBLE, L. M., 1978

Reporter information

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

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

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