The Geology, Leasing and Production History of the Sunnyside Uranium-Vanadium Mine, Apache County, Arizona

The Sunnyside mine was developed on one of the initial discoveries of uranium-vanadium minerals in the Carrizo Mountains of northeastern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico. The host rock for the ore deposit is the Salt Wash Member of the Morrison Formation of Late Jurassic age. The mine, on Sunnyside Mesa, is located in a very remote area of the western Carrizo Mountains. During 1943 nearly 500 tons of vanadium ore was produced. In 1955,28 tons of uranium-vanadium ore was produced as the result of cleanup mining in the abandoned mine. This report is intended to supplement the information on the mine reported by Scarborough [1981, p. 129].Documents in the AZGS Document Repository collection are made available by the Arizona Geological Survey (AZGS) and the University Libraries at the University of Arizona. For more information about items in this collection, please contact azgs-info@email.arizona.edu