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East Slope Mine

Past Producer in Piute county in Utah, United States with commodity Uranium
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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. Alteration
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10015449
MRDS ID DB01156
Record type Site
Current site name East Slope Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.24467, 38.50191 (WGS84)
Elevation 1981
Relative position 4.7 MILES SW 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)

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 026S 004W 28 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION: SE 1/4 , SE 1/4 , SW 1/4 , SEC. 28

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Alteration

  • (Local) Argilic Alteration

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Rock unit name Mt. Belknap Volcanics
    Rock description Mt. Belknap Volcanics
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.24467, 38.50191
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Red Hills Caldera

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Thickness 0.61M
    Length 18.29M
    Depth to top 4.57M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Henry District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Mc Intosh, A. D. And Gerald

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 182.88M
    Overall depth 30.48M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Production

    UGMS STUDY, 1973

  • 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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