Silverman #2 Claim

Past Producer in Washington county in Utah, United States with commodity Uranium
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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021268
MRDS ID DC15421
Record type Site
Current site name Silverman #2 Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.35997, 37.24498 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Washington(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hurricane(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Saint George(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Cedar City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Virgin(hydrologic unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Washington

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 041S 013W 06 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • AREA INCLUDES SILVER FLAT, TECUMSEH, STORMY KING, AND MANHATTON CLAIMS.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • CARNOTITE COATS FRACTURE SURFACES AND CARBONIZED PLANT REMAINS.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Carnotite Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.35997, 37.24498

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form DISSEMINATED

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE MAIN ORE HORIZON CONSIST OF A FINELY LAMINATED, FINE-GRAINED, LAVENDER SANDSTONE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Harrisburg District

Comments on the production information

  • 10 TONS PRODUCED IN 1875 AVERAGING $502 PER TON.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DASCH, D., 1967 , URANIUM DEPOSIT OF NE & W. UTAH: UTAH GEOL SOC GUIDEBOOK # 21 , P. 118

  • Deposit

    BOYLE & BOWYER, 1961, USAEC ORE RESERVE STUDY

  • Deposit

    USBM MIN. YEARBOOK 1957

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1976 Wong, George U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-APR-1979 Tooker, Ed U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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