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Potts Fraction

Past Producer in Piute county in Utah, United States with commodities Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite
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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. 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. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10088213
MRDS ID DB01154
Record type Site
Current site name Potts Fraction
Alternate or previous names Blue Eagle Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.21328, 38.50247 (WGS84)
Elevation 2195
Relative position 3.3 MILES SOUTHWEST 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

BLM Administrative Area(land status)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Piute

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 026S 004W 26 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION: SW 1/4 , SW 1/4 , SW 1/4 SEC. 26

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Ore
Torbernite Ore
Uraninite Ore
Pyrite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Argillic

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.21328, 38.50247
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Red Hills Caldera

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Plunge 90 DEG

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fractures, Faults

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Large
Significant No
Discovery year 1950
Discoverer Black Bear Mining Co.
Year of first production 1951

Mining district

District name Henry District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Energy Fuels

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 609.6M
    Overall depth 121.92M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS ARE COMBINED - POTTS FRACTION AND BLUE EAGLE MINE. ALSO CONNECTED TO UPPER AND LOWER CLOYS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Production

    TRIMBLE, L. M., 1978 .

  • Reserve-Resource

    UGMS STUDY, 1973 .

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SERVICED BY SHAFT NOT ENTERED

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1978 Trimble, Larry M. Bureau of Land Management

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