Prospector Mine

Past Producer in Piute county in Utah, United States with commodities Uranium, Molybdenum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Manganese
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 10015234
MRDS ID DB00548
Record type Site
Current site name Prospector Mine
Alternate or previous names Sugar Daddy Incline

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.21689, 38.4933 (WGS84)
Elevation 2027
Relative position 3.2 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

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 04 Utah

Comments on the location information

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

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Molybdenum Tertiary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Tertiary
Manganese Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Ore
Pitchblende Ore
Torbernite Ore
Umohoite Ore
Uranophane Ore
Zippeite Ore
Alunite Gangue
Chalcedony Gangue
Marcasite Gangue
Opal Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Pyrolusite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Argillic Alteration, Minor Silicification

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • 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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.21689, 38.4933

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Prospector Fault, Prospector Vein, # 2 Breccia Zone

Ore body information

  • General form PINCH AND SWELL
    Plunge 90 DEG
    Plunge direction N 40 DEG E
    Thickness 12.19M
    Length 213.36M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Flourite, Veins, Vein Intersections

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Large
Significant No
Discovery year 1941
Discoverer James Sergent
Year of first production 1950

Mining district

District name Durkee Mining District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Energy Fuels

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 2203.7M
    Overall depth 152.4M

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.

External references