Aluminum Bar Deposit

Occurrence in Piute county in Utah, United States with commodities Aluminum, Potassium
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10009244
MRDS ID D002011
Record type Site
Current site name Aluminum Bar Deposit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.10133, 38.47636 (WGS84)
Elevation 2987
Relative position 7.2 MI ENE OF MARYSVALE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Piute(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Marysvale Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Beaver(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Sevier(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Fishlake National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Piute

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 027S 2W 10 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • HEAD OF SMITH CANYON, SOUTH OF MARYSVALE PEAK

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Aluminum Critical Primary
Potassium Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • PROJECT 9350 - 01393 ALUNITE RESOURCES

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Alunite Ore

Analytical data

Result 2 ANALYSES SHOW 38 % AND 53 % ALUNITE. CALLAGHAN ( 1973 ) REPORTS ALUNITE PRESENT IN MODERATE PROPORTION TO SILICA AND CLAY

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Latite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Latite
    Rock unit name Bullion Canyon Volcanics
    Rock description Bullion Canyon Volcanics

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.10133, 38.47636

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Dip GENTLY EAST
    Thickness 60.96M
    Length 457.2M
    Width 335.28M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Large
Significant No
Discovery year 1915
Discoverer E. Delaney & J. Gibbs

Mining district

District name Marysvale Region

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Delaney And Gibbs

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • FURTHER EXPLORATION NECESSARY
  • THOENEN (1941, P. 34) QUOTES CALLAGHAN UNPUB. RESOURCE AND TENOR ESTIMATE

Comments on the workings information

  • WILLARD'S MAP, REPRODUCED IN CALLAGHAN, 1973 , P. 115 , SHOWS ONE PROSPECT PIT. THOENEN ( 1941 ) MENTIONS A 25 FT OPEN-CUT FACE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Discovery Year: WW1

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1975 Hall, Robert B. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1978 Starritt, Bruce C. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.