Vega Poison Shaft

Past Producer in Piute county in Utah, United States with commodities Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite
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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  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 10088087
MRDS ID DB00559
Record type Site
Current site name Vega Poison Shaft
Related records 10227380

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.22189, 38.49358 (WGS84)
Elevation 1905
Relative position 3.1 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 05 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS: SW 1/4 SE 1/4 NW 1/4 SEC. 5

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Tertiary

Host and associated rocks

  • 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
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Volcanic Breccia (Agglomerate)

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.22189, 38.49358

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Glass Dikes

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Significant No
Discovery year 1951
Discoverer D. L. (Poison) Atherly
Year of first production 1952

Mining district

District name Durfee District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Energy Fuels

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 213.36M
    Overall depth 45.72M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CAVED WORKINGS NO DATA ON DEPOSIT

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.