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Excelsior Sulfur Deposit

Past Producer in Millard county in Utah, United States with commodities Sulfur, Iron, Gypsum-Anhydrite
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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. 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 10010348
MRDS ID D003956
Record type Site
Current site name Excelsior Sulfur Deposit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.55829, 38.62218 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Millard(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cove Fort(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Beaver Bottoms-Upper Beaver(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 Millard

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 006W 025S 20 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sulfur Primary
Iron Tertiary
Gypsum-Anhydrite Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Marcasite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Selenite Ore
Sulfur Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Intense Hydrothermal

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.55829, 38.62218
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Intersection Of Tertiary Faults And Favorable Beds Of Conglomerate

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Gordon District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • TWO ESTIMATES OF RESERVES ARE AVAILABLE. KING AND KING, ( 1954 ) ESTIMATE PROBABLE ORE AS 200,000 SHORT TONS WITH 37,500 LONG TONS SULFUR. RODRIQUEZ ( 1960 ) ESTIMATE PROBABLE ORE AS 88,000 SHORT TONS WITH 23,575 LONG TONS SULFUR.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    RODRIQUEZ, E. L., 1960 , MASTERS THESIS, UNIV OF UTAH.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit HEAT SOURCE FOR SOLSATARIC ACTIVITY IS THOUGHT TO BE RELATED TO NEARBY PLIESLOCENE BASALT CONE CALLAGHAN ( 1973 ). NO PRODUCTION IS MENTIONED, BUT EXAMINATION OF THE LOCALITY INDICATES SOME MATERIAL HAS BEEN REMOVED. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 3 FIELD OBSERV

Reporter information

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

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