| Deposit ID | 10009252 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | D002020 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Marys Lamb Deposit |
| Alternate or previous names | Vera Cruz, Santa Cruz, Santa Kruze, Utah Potash Co., St. Francis. |
| Geographic coordinates: | -112.20578, 38.52608 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Elevation | 1981 |
| Relative position | 5.4 MI. NNE OF MARYSVALE |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Sevier(county)
Utah(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Antelope Range(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)
Richfield(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
Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management UT)
Bureau of Land Management UT BLM(Type of land area)
BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Utah | Sevier |
| Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salt Lake | 026S | 004W | 23 | Utah |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Aluminum Critical | Primary |
| Potassium | Primary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Alunite | Ore |
| Illite | Gangue |
| Kaolinite | Gangue |
| Quartz | Gangue |
| Result | 3 ANALYSES RANGE FROM 31 % TO 33 % ALUNITE |
|---|
| Host or associated | Associated | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite | ||||||
| |||||||
| Host or associated | Host |
|---|---|
| Rock type | Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite |
| Rock unit name | Bullion Canyon Volcanics |
| Rock description | Bullion Canyon Volcanics |
| (1) | Alluvium and colluvium |
|---|
| General form | IRREGULAR |
|---|---|
| Thickness | 30.48M |
| Length | 365.76M |
| Width | 152.4M |
| Development status | Past Producer |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Both |
| Deposit size | Medium |
| Significant | No |
| Discovery year | 1915 |
| Discoverer | E. G. Nelson |
| Year of first production | 1914 |
| District name | Marysvale Region/Henry District |
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| Ownership category | BLM Administrative Area |
|---|
| Type | Owner-Operator |
|---|---|
| Owner | E. G. Nelson |
| Type | In-situ | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Estimate year | 1941 | ||||||||||||||
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| Type of workings | Surface/Underground |
|---|---|
| Length | 60.96M |
| Overall length | 36.58M |
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | D002020 |
SRC.REF: CALLAGHAN, E., 1973 , UTAH GEOL. AND MINERALOG. SURVEY BULL. 102 , P. 104 .
CALLAGHAN, E., 1938 , PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE ALUNITE DEPOSITS OF THE MARYSVALE REGION, UTAH: USGS BULL. 886 - D, P. 130 .
CALLAGHAN, E., 1973 , MINERAL RESOURCE POTENTIAL OF PIUTE COUNTY, UTAH AND ADJOINING AREA: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERALOG. SURVEY BULL. 102 , P. 103 - 104 .
THOENEN, J. R., 1941 , ALUNITE RESOURCES OF THE UNITED STATES: USBM REPT. INV. 3561 , P. 31 .
1938 RECON E. CALLAGHAN: BULL. 886-D
WW1 DIREXPL UTAH POTASH CO.: TEST
1957 GEOLMAP P. F. KERR AND OTHERS: GEOL. SOC. AMERICA SPEC. PAPER 64 , PL. 15 .
CALLAGHAN, E., 1938 , USGS BULL. 886 - D, P. 130 .
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | Discovery Year: WW1 |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 01-JAN-1975 | Hall, Robert B. | U.S. Geological Survey | |
| Updater | 01-AUG-1978 | Starritt, Bruce C. | U.S. Geological Survey |
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