Mine detail: Rodenhouse Wash Beryllium Deposits

Previously called 'Vanguard Research Property'

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Location

Lat / long: 40.13163, -113.79164

Resource(M)

Tertiary: Beryllium
Discovery year: 1962

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: FISSURE VEINS
Production size: Medium
Development status: Occurrence

Geology

Structure:N-S STRIKING, WEST-DIPPING REVERSE FAULTS., BASIN AND RANGE
Alteration processes:SLIGHT LIMONITE-STAINING, VUGGY APPEARANCE

References

MRDSD008501
DEP60000320
Reference{Deposit:: GRIFFITTS, W.R., 1965, RECENTLY DISCOVERED BERYLLIUM DEPOSITS NEAR GOLD HILL, UTAH: ECON. GEOLOGY, VOL. 60, PP. 1298-1305.}{Deposit:: MEEVES, H.C., 1966, NONPEGMATITIC BERYLLIUM OCCURRENCES: USBM RI 6828, P.50-52.}{Deposit:: NOLAN, T.B., 1935, THE GOLD HILL MINING DISTRICT, UTAH: USGS PROF. PAPER 177.}{Deposit:: EL-SHATOURY, H.M., AND J.A. WHELAN, 1970, MINERALIZATION IN THE GOLD HILL MINING DISTRICT, TOOELE COUNTY, UTAH: UGMS BULL. 83, P.8-9, P.11-15.}{Deposit:: GRIFFITTS, W.R., 1969, BERYLLIUM, IN MINERAL AND WATER RESOURCES OF UTAH: UGMS BULL. 73, P.71-75.}{Deposit:: PARK, G.M., 1968, SOME GEOCHEIMICAL AND GEOCHRONOLOGIC STUDIES OF THE BERYLLIUM DEPOSITS IN WESTERN UTAH: M.S. THESIS, UNIV. OF UTAH.}