| Abstract: | The secondary uranium minerals autunite, metatorbernite, uranophane(?), and schroeckingerite occur in altered hornfels at the East Slope No. 9. uranium prospect. The deposit, in sec. 6, T. 9.7 S., R. 3 W., Piute County, Utah, is about 1 mile west of the Bullion Monarch mine which is in the central producing area of the Marysvale uranium district.
Hornfels, formed by contact metamorphism of rocks of the Bullion Canyon volcanics borderhug the margin of a quartz monzonite stock, is in fault contact with the later Mount Belknap rhyolite. The hornfels was intensely altered by hydrothermal solutions in pre-Mount Belknap time. Hematite-alunite-quartz-kaolinite rock, the most completely altered hornfels, is surrounded by orange to white argillized hornfels containing beidellite-montmorillonite clay, and secondary uranium minerals. The secondary uranium minerals probably have been derived from pitchblende, the primary ore mineral in other deposits of the Marysvale area.
The two uranium-rich zones, 4 feet ad 5 feet thick, have been traced on the surface for 60 feet and 110 feet, respectively. Channel samples from these zones contained as much as 0.047 percent uranium.
The deposit is significant because of its position outside the central producing area and because of the association of uranium minerals with alunitic rock in hydrothermally altered hornfels of volcanic rocks of early Tertiary age. |
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| ProdID: | 3229 |
| Citation Author: | Wyant, Donald Gray |
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| Citation Phsyical Description: | 6 p. :illus., maps (1 fold.) tables. ;27 cm. |
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| Citation Publisher: | [U.S. Geological Survey], |
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| Citation Series Number: | 322 |
| Citation Search Results Text: | The East Slope No. 2 uranium prospect, Piute County, Utah; 1954; CIR; 322; Wyant, Donald Gray |
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| Text: | The East Slope No. 2 uranium prospect, Piute County, Utah; 1954; CIR; 322; Wyant, Donald Gray |
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| Date Other: | Sat, 1 Jan 1994 00:00 -0600 |
| Publisher: | [U.S. Geological Survey], |
