Sun Valley Mine

Past Producer in Coconino county in Arizona, United States with commodities Uranium, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Iron, Molybdenum, Rhenium, Cadmium
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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10027290
MRDS ID M002734
Record type Site
Current site name Sun Valley Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.79436, 36.71639 (WGS84)
Elevation 1463
Relative position IN CANYON ABOUT 2 MI WSW OF CLIFF DWELLERS LODGE; E OF JACOB LAKE.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Coconino(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Emmett Wash(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Glen Canyon Dam(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Marble Canyon(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Colorado-Marble Canyon(hydrologic unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management AZ)

Bureau of Land Management AZ BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Coconino

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 038N 006E 06 Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Copper Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary
Iron Tertiary
Molybdenum Tertiary
Rhenium Tertiary
Cadmium Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • RHENIUM IS CONCENTRATED IN WATER SOLUBLE FRACTION; URANINITE IS INTERSTITIAL MATERIAL AND ROUNDED GRAINS.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Hematite Ore
Jordisite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Uraninite Ore
Zippeite Ore
Calcite Gangue

Analytical data

Result AVERAGE GRADE AROUND 0.2% U308
Result MOLYBDENUM CONTENT AS HIGH AS 10%.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Shinarump Conglomerate Member Of Chinle Formation
    Rock description Shinarump Conglomerate Member Of Chinle Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.79436, 36.71639

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form U SHAPED BEND OF PALEOSTREAM CHANNEL
    Thickness 39.62M
    Length 304.8M
    Width 121.92M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • In Bottom 2.5 Ft Of Paleostream Channel, Some Carbonized Plant Remains.

Comments on the geologic information

  • CONGLOMERATE UNDERLAIN BY MOENKOPI FORMATION.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Vermillion Cliffs District

Comments on the production information

  • SEVERAL HUNDRED TONS MINED FROM 1956-1959.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 121.92M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KEITH, 1970, ARIZ. BUREAU OF MINES BULL. 182, P. 103-159, 202-289.

  • Deposit

    PETERSON, 1957, USGS TEI-690, BOOK 1, P. 158.

  • Deposit

    PETERSON, 1959, AN OCCURRENCE OF RHENIUM ASSOCIATED WITH URANINITE IN COCONINO COUNTY, ARIZONA: ECON. GEOL. V. 54, P. 254-257.

  • Deposit

    ISACHSEN & EVENSEN, 1956, USGS PP 300, P. 263-280.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THIS REPORT REPRESENTS A MERGER OF ORIGINAL RECORD M002734 WITH RECORD M030424 OF JAN WILT IN MOLYBDENUM FILE; CONTACT PERSON, T.G. THEODORE, USGS. THIS RECORD ALSO CONTAINS DATA FROM DUPLICATE RECORD D000313 OF R.U. KING WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED FROM MAIN MRDS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Deposit PODS 2 FT BY 3 FT.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1983 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1993 Orris, Greta J. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Arizona resources

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