Dog Valley Prospects

Occurrence in Garfield county in Utah, United States with commodities Mercury, Silver, Iron, Manganese, Fluorine-Fluorite
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. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010344
MRDS ID D003951
Record type Site
Current site name Dog Valley Prospects

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.41134, 38.09497 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Garfield(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Fremont Pass(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Beaver(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper 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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Garfield

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 005W 031S 22,27,28 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary
Silver Primary
Iron Secondary
Manganese Critical Secondary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Fluorite Ore
Magnetite Ore
Metacinnabar Ore
Gypsum Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Opalization, Hematitization, Limonitization, Argillitization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.41134, 38.09497

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault Near Quartz Monzonite Intrusion

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, H. H., 1975 , UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURVEY BULL. 107

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SAMPLES GAVE AS HIGH AS .3 % MERCURY AND 2 OZ/TON AG CONTENT THE QUARTZ MONZONITE OF THE SPRY INTRUSIVE CROP OUT A FEW HUNDRED FEET TO THE SOUTHEAST ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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