Black Rock Volcano

Producer in Millard county in Utah, United States with commodity Volcanic Materials
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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010332
MRDS ID D003939
Record type Site
Current site name Black Rock Volcano

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.48523, 38.8069 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Millard(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Kanosh(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Sevier(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Millard

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 006W 023S 13 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Volcanic Materials Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinders Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) None

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Mafic Volcanic Rock > Basalt
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pleistocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.48523, 38.8069

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Vent

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name None

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NACKOWSKI, 1959 , UTAH ENG. EXPERIMENT STATION BULL. NO. 101 , P. 82 .

  • Deposit

    US DEPT OF AGRICULTURE, 1973 , RESOURCE USE IN BEAVER RIVER BASIN, P. 53 .

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CINDER CONES ASSOCIATED WITH BASALT ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1979 Steven, T. A. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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