The Silver King Prospect is a uranium mine located in Tooele county, Utah at an elevation of 6,660 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 6,660 Feet (2,030 Meters)
Commodity: Uranium
Lat, Long: 39.96722, -112.56556
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Silver King Prospect MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Silver King Prospect
Commodity
Primary: Uranium
Secondary: Copper
Secondary: Silver
Secondary: Fluorine-Fluorite
Secondary: Manganese
Tertiary: Barium-Barite
Location
State: Utah
County: Tooele
District: Columbia District
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: Ixl Uranium Corp.
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Unknown
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: TABULAR
Form: TABULAR
Structure
Type: R
Description: Basin And Range
Type: L
Description: N25w, 50 Sw Fault Zone Assoc. With The Western Boundary Faults Of The Sheeprock Mountains
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Granite
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Miocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Uraninite
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Gangue: Fluorite
Gangue: Barite
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Pyrite
Gangue: Specularite
Comments
Comment (Development): FOUR DRILL HOLES TOTALING 1062 FT BY THE AEC. SILVER KING NO. 1 TUNNEL WAS LENGTHENED FROM 756 FT TO 1400 FT BY THE OWNERS IN 1967-68. TWO SHALLOW, VERTICAL HOLES WERE DRILLED THEN, ALSO BY THE OWNERS. RECONNAISSANCE FOR BERYLLIUM IN 1949 ALONG WITH GRANITE-METASEDIMENTS CONTACT
Comment (Workings): SILVER KING NO. 1 TUNNEL (LOWER ADIT), PORCUPINE ADIT (UPPER ADIT, 225 FT), 65 FT. VERTICAL SHAFT, 30 AND 50 FT. INCLINED SHAFTS, EXTENSIVE BULLDOZER CUTS COMPRISE SOUTHERN WORKINGS; NORTHERN WORKINGS ARE ON THE SILVER LODE CLAIMS AND INCLUDE 2 ADITS AND A SHAFT
Comment (Geology): PEGMATITE AND APLITE DIKES ARE COMMON IN GRANITE
Comment (Deposit): EIGHT FISSURE VEINS, MOSTLY 1-6 IN. IN WIDTH, CARRYING SPECULARITE, EARTHY HEMATITE, MANGANESE OXIDES, CHALCOPYRITE, PYRITE, URANINITE, FLUORITE, AND BARITE
References
Reference (Deposit): COHENOUR, R.E., 1959, SHEEPROCK MOUNTAINS, TOOELE AND JUAB COUNTIES: UGMS BULL. 63, P. 118
Reference (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.
Reference (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
Reference (Production): BULLOCK, K.C., 1967, P. 81
Reference (Deposit): BULLOCK, K.C., 1976, FLUORITE OCCURRENCES IN UTAH: UGMS BULL. 110, P. 81-82
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