Description
Vitro Minerals Corporation (?)
Commodities
PrimaryBeryllium
TertiaryUranium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Lithium
Commodity typeB
Deposit
Deposit sizeL
Orebody formTABULAR
Ore controlRhyolite Cap Rock; Permeable Tuff With Reactive Carbonate Clasts.
Materials
Ore mineralsBertrandite, Uranophane
GangueCalcite, Clay
Other materialsFluorite
Geology
Host rockVolcanic Rock (Aphanitic),Tuff,Volcanic Breccia (Agglomerate) · Beryllium Tuff Member Of Spor Mountain Formation
Associated rockRhyolite · Porphyritic Rhyolite Member Of Spor Mountain Formation
StructureTintic-Deep Creek Mineral Belt., Basin And Range High Angle Faults Tilt Ore -Bearing Strata; Some May Have Been Conduits For Fluids.
Tectonic settingExtensional Basin And Range Faulting; Accompanied By Rhyolite-Basalt Volcanism.
AlterationArgillic: Smectite, Sericite, K-Feldspar.
Economic & production
Development statusPast Producer
Discovery year1960
Identification
Deposit ID10055077
MRDS IDRE00012
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates39.71911, -113.2211
References
STAATZ. M.H. 1963. GEOL OF MIN DEP IN THOMAS RANGE: USGS BULL. 1142-MSTAATZ, M.H. & GRIFFITTS, W.R. 1961, BE BEARING TUFF IN THOMAS RANGE: ECON GEOL V.56, NO. 5.STAATZ, M.H. & OSTERWALD, F.W. 1959. GEOL OF THOMAS RANGE FLUOR DISTRICT: USGS BULL. 1069.LINDSEY, D.A. GANOW, H., AND MOUNTJOY, W. 1973. HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION ASSOCIATED WITH BERYLLIUM DEPOSITS AT SPOR MOUNTAIN, UTAH: USGS PROF. PAPER 818-A 20P.DAVIS, L.J., 1979, BERYLLIUM AND URANIUM MINERALIZATION IN THE SPOR MOUNTAIN AREA, JUAB COUNTY, UTAH: IN NEWMAN, G.W., AND GOODE, H.D., EDS., 1979, BASIN AND RANGE SYMPOSIUM AND GREAT BASIN FIELD CONFERENCE, ROCKY MOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION OF GEOLOGISTS AND UTAH GEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, PP.397-403.