Temple Mountain Deposit

The Temple Mountain Deposit is a vanadium and uranium mine located in Emery county, Utah.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Temple Mountain Deposit
Secondary: Temple Mountain Mine
Secondary: Temple Mtn. Mines
Secondary: Temple Mountain
Secondary: Temple Mtn.
Secondary: Temple #1
Secondary: Temple Mtn #2, #3
Secondary: South Temple
Secondary: Temple Mt. Mines

Commodity

Primary: Vanadium
Primary: Uranium
Secondary: Silver
Secondary: Gold

Location

State: Utah
County: Emery

Land Status

Not available

Holdings

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Workings

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Ownership

Not available

Production

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Deposit

Record Type: Deposit
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Underground
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: M

Physiography

General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Colorado Plateaus
Physiographic Section: Canyon Lands

Mineral Deposit Model

Not available

Orebody

Name: Temple Mountain Deposit

Structure

Not available

Alterations

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Rocks

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Analytical Data

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Materials

Ore: Montroseite
Ore: Abernathyite
Ore: Fourmarierite
Ore: Corvusite
Ore: Uraninite
Ore: Tyuyamunite
Ore: Uvanite
Ore: Rauvite
Ore: Carnotite

Comments

Comment (Orebody): Johnson (1957, p. 47) "considered the Temple Mountain deposits as one big deposit containing many ore bodies jioned by weakly mineralized ground."

Comment (Commodity): "Vanadium-uranium deposits occur mostly at Temple Mountain. The vanadium:uranium ratio here is about 3 to 1, and the uranium ore is principally uraninite associated with carbonaceous material. Corvusite, rauvite, uvanite, carnotite, tyuyamunite, fourmarierite, abernathyite, and monstroseite occur as accessory uranium- and vanadium-beraing mienrals." (Johnson, 1957, Bull. 1046-D, p. 47)

Comment (Production): "The Temple Mountain deposits were mined for radium and possibly byproduct vanadium during the period of Wold Waqr I. [...] In 1948, Temple Mountain was the only producing area in the San Rafael district. The next year there was small production from three deposits other than those in Temple Mountain proper. In 1950 and 1951, Temple Mountain was the major producer in the area with small shimpments being made from about 10 other deposits. From 1952 to 1956, prduction has come from 2 big mines (the Temple Mountian deposits and the Delta mine), ... [Johnson, Bull 1046-D, p. 40]. Production was >1000 tons (Chew, 1956).

Comment (Location): NO UTM COORDINATES OR SECTION-RANGE-TOWNSHIP IDENTIFICATION MARKS WERE GIVEN IN ORIGINAL MRDS RECORD. TEMPLE MOUNTAIN IS A PROMINENT MOUNT IN EMERY COUNTY. Summit is near the shared section corners of Secs. 26, 27, 34, and 35.

References

Reference (Deposit): CONS. DIV COMP. DATE, 10-30-1970, 09-21-1970.

Reference (Deposit): HILPEERT'S FILE, USGS

Reference (Location): Chew, R.T., III, compiler, 1956, Uranium and vanadium deposits of the colorado Plateau that producedd more than 1,000 tons of ore through June 30, 1955: U.S. Geological Survey MF-54, scale 1:750,000.
Pages: #145

Reference (Geology): Weeks, A.D., and Thompson, M.E., 1954, Identification and occrennce of uranium and vanadium minerals from the Colorado Plateau: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1009-B, p. 13-62.
Pages: p. 19

Reference (Deposit): Johnson, H.S., Jr., 1957, Uranium resources of the San Rafael District, Emery County, Utah--A regional synthesis: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1046-D, p. 37-54.
Pages: p. 37-54.

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