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Blood Mine

Past Producer in Piute county in Utah, United States with commodities Gold, Copper, Silver
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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. 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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10015313
MRDS ID DB00700
Record type Site
Current site name Blood Mine
Related records 10155112

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.08883, 38.23164 (WGS84)
Elevation 2353
Relative position AT BLOOD MINE SPRING

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Piute(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Phonolite Hill(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

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Piute

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 030S 2W 02 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SE 1/4 SE 1/4 NW 1/4 SEC. 2, T 30 S, R 2 1/2 W

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Tertiary
Copper Tertiary
Silver Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Bleaching Along Quartz Veins

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Latite
    Rock unit name Bullion Canyon Volcanics
    Rock description Bullion Canyon Volcanics
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Latite

Nearby scientific data

(1) Basalts
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form VEIN
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Normal Fault

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Kingston Area

Land status

Ownership category State

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 182.88M
    Overall depth 45.72M

Comments on the workings information

  • TWO ADITS, CAVED 30 FT. FROM PORTAL, LENGTH OF WORKINGS FROM SIZE OF DUMP.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Production

    TRIMBLE, L. 1978

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1978 Trimble, Larry M. Bureau of Land Management

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

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