The Black Beauty is a uranium mine located in Emery county, Utah.
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Black Beauty MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Black Beauty
Commodity
Primary: Uranium
Location
State: Utah
County: Emery
District: Temple Mountain Area
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Type: Underground
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1955
Discovery Year: 1955
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Form: LENTICULAR TO TABULAR
Structure
Type: R
Description: San Rafael Swell
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Clay, Mud
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Triassic
Name: Clay, Mud
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Triassic
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Uraninite
Ore: Tyuyamunite
Ore: Coal
Gangue: Gypsum
Comments
Comment (Commodity): DISSEMENTED RADIOACTIVE COALY AND ASPHALTIC MATERIALS
Comment (Reserve-Resource): RADIOACTIVE SURVEY WITH SCINTREX GAD I
Comment (Location): SE 1/4, SW 1/4, NE 1/4, SEC 3, T25S, R11E
Comment (Development): ECON.COM: REMOTE AREA
Comment (Workings): TWO ADITS, ONE WITH 145' OF WORKING
Comment (Geology): SANDSTONES THIN TO THICK BEDDED, LENTICULAR, LEDGE AND STOPE FORMER.
Comment (Deposit): Discovery Year: 1950'S
References
Reference (Deposit): 1965 COMPILE HAWLEY, C. C. - BULLETIN
Reference (Deposit): 1957 RECON U.S.A.E.C.
Reference (Deposit): HAWLEY, C. C., AND OTHERS, 1968, GEOLOGY, ALTERED ROCKS, AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE SAN RAFAEL SWELL, EMERY CO., UT.: USGS BULL 1239
Reference (Deposit): HAWLEY, C. C., AND OTHERS, 1965, GEOLOGY AND URANIUM DEPOSITS OF THE TEMPLE MTN. DISTRICT, EMERY CO. UT.: USGS BULL. 1192
Reference (Reserve-Resource): DOELLING H. H., 1977 UGMS ECON GEOL.
Reference (Deposit): HAWLEY, C. C., 1957, SAN RAFAEL SWELL, UTAH GEOLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS OF RADIOACTIVE DEPOSITS: USAEC TEL-690
Reference (Production): UGMS STUDY - 1973
Reference (Deposit): 1968 COMPILE HAWLEY, C. C. - BULLETIN
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