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Box Creek Deposit

Producer in Piute county in Utah, United States with commodity Kaolin
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  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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010336
MRDS ID D003943
Record type Site
Current site name Box Creek Deposit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.00271, 38.48414 (WGS84)

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)

East Fork 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 002W 027S 03,10 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Kaolin Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Kaolinite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Hydrothermal Argillic

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Latite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.00271, 38.48414
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Sevier Plateau Area

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • THE DEPOSIT HAS BEEN MEASURED FOR SEVERAL HUNDRED FEET IN ALL DIRECTIONS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CALLAGHAN, EUGENE, 1973 , UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURVEY BULL. 102

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit IT IS ASSUMED THAT THIS DEPOSIT HAS PRODUCED SOME CLAY. CALLAGHAN STATES THAT INTERSTATE BRICK OPERATES THE CLAY PIT AND THAT IT IS BEING WORKED ( 1973 ), BUT GIVES NO PRODUCTION FIGURES. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1978 Steven, T. A. U.S. Geological Survey

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