Mine detail: Silver King Prospect

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

39.96716, -112.56637

Resource(B)

Primary:	Uranium
Secondary:	Copper, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite, Manganese
Tertiary:	Barium-Barite
Ore:	Chalcopyrite, Uraninite
Gangue:	Barite, Fluorite, Pyrite, Quartz, Specularite
Orebody form:	TABULAR

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	None
Development status:	Occurrence

Geology

Host rock:	Swan Peak Quartzite;
Host type:	Granite
Structure:	Basin And Range, N25w, 50 Sw Fault Zone Assoc. With The Western Boundary Faults Of The Sheeprock Mountains
Tectonic:	Sevier Orogenic Belt

References

MRDS	RE00162
DEP	10055147
Reference	{Deposit:: BULLOCK, K.C., 1976, FLUORITE OCCURRENCES IN UTAH: UGMS BULL. 110, P. 81-82}{Deposit:: COHENOUR, R.E., 1959, SHEEPROCK MOUNTAINS, TOOELE AND JUAB COUNTIES: UGMS BULL. 63, P. 118}{Deposit:: HILLIER, R.L., 1956, PRELIMINARY REPORT ON URANIUM OCCURRENCE, SILVER KING CLAIMS, TOOELE CO., UTAH: U.S.A.E.C., RME-2035 (REV.) 25 P.}{Deposit:: WARNER, L.A., AND WILMARTH, V.R., 1959, SHEEPROCK MTNS., IN WARNER L.A., AND OTHERS, OCCURRENCE OF NONPEGMATITE BERYLLIUM IN THE UNITED STATES: USGS PROF. PAPER 318, P. 147-148}{Production:: BULLOCK, K.C., 1967, P. 81}
Reporter	Messenger, Harold M. III