Burke Mine

Past Producer in Iron county in Utah, United States with commodity Iron
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. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10011218
MRDS ID D005550
Record type Site
Current site name Burke Mine
Alternate or previous names Burke No 2., Burke No. 3
Related records 10275742

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.39969, 37.62442 (WGS84)
Elevation 1981
Relative position 4,100 FT. N NE OF UTAH 56 AND IRONTON ROAD INTERSECTION

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Iron(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Page Ranch(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Cedar City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Cedar City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Escalante Desert(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 Iron

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 036S 014W 35 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION: NW 1/4, NW 1/4, SW 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • MAGNETITE OCCURED AS FAIRLY SOFT, BLACK, FINE, GRANULAR MIXTURE WITH OCCASIONAL RIBS OF HARD DENSE MATERIAL, ALTERING TO HEMATITE

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Hematite Ore
Magnetite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification, Limonizition

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Iron Mtn. Pluton
    Rock description Iron Mtn. Pluton
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Homestake Limestone Member Of Carmel Formation
    Rock description Homestake Limestone Member Of Carmel Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.39969, 37.62442

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Sevier Thrust System
Type of structure Local
Structure description Iron Mtn-Intrusion

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 0 DEG S
    Dip 30 DEG W
    Thickness 45.72M
    Length 487.68M
    Width 106.68M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fracturing, Faulting, Favorable Limestone Beds

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Discovery year 1947
Discoverer U.S. Bureau Of Mines

Mining district

District name Pinto Iron

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner U.S. Steel Corp.
    Home office Jefferson City, Tn.

Comments on the production information

  • DEPOSIT HAS BEEN MINED OUT.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 40.47HA

Comments on the workings information

  • BENCH MINE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSIT WAS COMPOSED OF TWO ORE BODIES AT DEPTH, NORTH SECTION WAS KNOWN AS BURKE NO. 2 AND THE SOUTH SECTION AS BURKE NO. 3. THE BURKE ORE BODY HAS BEEN MINED OUT.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1979 Stegan, Ralph J. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.