Marble Pit

Prospect in Beaver county in Utah, United States with commodities Stone, Dimension, Limestone, General
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. Alteration
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10011249
MRDS ID D005797
Record type Site
Current site name Marble Pit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.09524, 38.36246 (WGS84)
Elevation 1652
Relative position 7500 FT SW OF MOLLIES NIPPLE.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaver(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Milford Flat(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wah Wah Mountains South(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

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 Beaver

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 028S 011W 21 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS SE 1/4 SE 1/4 NW 1/4 SECTION 21.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone, Dimension Primary
Limestone, General Primary

Alteration

  • (Local) Marble

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Granodiorite
    Rock description Granodiorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Kaibab-Toroweap Undiff.;Moenkopi Formation;Tailsman Quartzite
    Rock description Kaibab-Toroweap Undiff.;Moenkopi Formation;Tailsman Quartzite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.09524, 38.36246

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range Structures
Type of structure Local
Structure description Ne Trending Anticline

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N-S
    Dip 65E
    Thickness 4.57M
    Length 45.72M
    Width 45.72M
    Depth to top 0.3M
    Depth to bottom 4.57M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • East-West Transverse Fault

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1965

Mining district

District name Star District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.013HA
    Overall length 15.24M
    Overall width 9.14M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    EVERTS, M.L., 1979; UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY; ON-SITE INVESTIGATION

  • Production

    EVERTS, M.L., 1979, ON-SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Discovery Year: 1960'S
Deposit RECENT ACTIVITY

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1979 Everts, Michael L. Bureau of Land Management
Updater 01-JUL-1985 Shubat, Michael A. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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