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Sunshine - Christmas - Aetna Peak Deposits

Past Producer in Piute county in Utah, United States with commodities Aluminum, Potassium
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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. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Reserves and resources
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10101421
MRDS ID D002022
Record type Site
Current site name Sunshine - Christmas - Aetna Peak Deposits
Alternate or previous names Aetna Peak Also Known As Edna Peak

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.33134, 38.37914 (WGS84)
Elevation 3414
Relative position 7.3 MI. SW OF MARYSVALE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Piute(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Brigham(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

Fishlake National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Piute

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 028S 004W 08,17 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • CREST OF ALUNITE RIDGE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Aluminum Critical Primary
Potassium Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • PROJECT 9350 - 01393 ALUNITE RESOURCES

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Alunite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification, Alunitization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Volcanic Breccia (Agglomerate)
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Volcanic Breccia (Agglomerate)
    Rock unit name Bullion Canyon Volcanics
    Rock description Bullion Canyon Volcanics

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.33134, 38.37914
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 4.57M
    Length 106.68M
    Width 7.62M

Comments on the geologic information

  • PINK TO WHITE ALUNITE VEINS AND LENSES IN FISSURES IN SLIGHTLY ALUNITIZED VOLCANIC HOST

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Discovery year 1913
Discoverer Florence Mining & Milling Co.
Year of first production 1914

Mining district

District name Marysvale Region/Mt. Baldy District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Florence Mining And Milling Co.

Comments on the production information

  • 12,000 ST ALUNITE ORE PROD FROM SUNSHINE MINE IN 1914 - 15

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1941
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Aluminum Al 87 wt-pct Aluminum Major 1941

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • HOST OF HIGH - GRADE VEINS PRESUMABLY LITTLE ALUNITIZED; NO GOOD BASIS FOR RESOURCE ESTIMATE
  • ITEM 1 = COMBINED AETNA PEAK/SUNSHINE RESERVE QUOTED FROM CALLAGHAN UNPUB ESTIMATE

Comments on the workings information

  • ALL PROPERTIES HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED BY TRENCHES, PITS, AND ADITS. 7 STOPES WERE OPENED IN THE UPPER LEVEL ( NO. 1 ), CHRISTMAS (AND SUNSHINE) MINE. THE LOWER LEVEL IS 200 FT BELOW THE UPPER, AND IS NOW INACCESSABLE. 650 FT OF BULLDOZER TRENCHING AND 800 FT OF HAND TRENCHING BY THE USBM WERE DONE ON THE CHRISTMAS AND SUNSHINE PROPERTY.

Comments on development

  • PROPERTIES IDLE SINCE WW2

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CALLAGHAN, E., 1938 , PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE ALUNITE DEPOSITS OF THE MARYSVALE REGION, UTAH: USGS BULL. 886 -D, P. 121 - 122 .

  • Deposit

    CALLAGHAN, E., 1973 , MINERAL RESOURCE POTENTIAL OF PIUTE COUNTY, UTAH AND ADJOINING AREA: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERALOG. SURVEY BULL. 102 , P. 75 - 79 .

  • Deposit

    HILD, J. H., 1946 , EXPLORATION OF ALUNITE DEPOSITS, MARYSVALE, PIUTE COUNTY, UTAH: USBM REPT. INV. 3972 , P. 9 - 10 .

  • Deposit

    THOENEN, J. R., 1941 , ALUNITE RESOURCES OF THE UNITED STATES: USBM REPT. INV. 3561 , P. 24 - 25 .

  • Deposit

    BUTLER, B.S., AND GALE, H.S., 1912, ALUNITE, A NEWLY DISCOVERED DEPOSIT NEAR MARYSVALE, UTAH: U.S.GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 511, 64 P.

  • Deposit

    LOUGHLIN, G.F., 1915, RECENT ALUNITE DEPOSITS NEAR MARYSVALE AND BEAVER, UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 620-K, P. 237 - 270.

  • Deposit

    1912 RECON B. S. BUTLER AND H. S. GALE: BULL. 511 .

  • Deposit

    1914 DIREXPL FLORENCE M & M CO.: PROD

  • Deposit

    1915 RECON G. F. LOUGHLIN: BULL. 620-K.

  • Deposit

    WW2 DIREXPL G. L. BELL: MAPS

  • Deposit

    1943 DIREXPL USBM: DATA

  • Production

    CALLAGHAN, E., 1938 , USGS BULL. 886 - D, P. 121 .

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THERE ARE SEVERAL BRANCHES TO THE VEIN, ONE NEARLY NORMAL TO THE TREND OF THE MAIN VEIN.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1975 Hall, Robert B. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1978 Starritt, Bruce C. U.S. Geological Survey

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