Mine detail: Potts Fraction

Previously called 'Blue Eagle Mine'

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Location

Lat / long:

38.50247, -112.21328

Resource(B)

Primary:	Uranium
Tertiary:	Fluorine-Fluorite
Ore:	Fluorite, Torbernite, Uraninite
Gangue:	Pyrite
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR
Discovery year:	1950

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Large
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1951

Geology

Host type:	Quartz Monzonite,Rhyolite
Associated rock:	Mt. Belknap Volcanics
Associated type:	Quartz Monzonite,Rhyolite
Structure:	Red Hills Caldera
Tectonic:	Basin And Range Transition
Alteration processes:	Argillic

References

MRDS	DB01154
DEP	10088213
Reference	{Production:: TRIMBLE, L. M., 1978 .}{Reserve-Resource:: UGMS STUDY, 1973 .}
Reporter	Trimble, Larry M.