Hickman Canyon Prospect

Occurrence in Piute county in Utah, United States with commodities Copper, Lead, Zinc
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. 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 10015321
MRDS ID DB00727
Record type Site
Current site name Hickman Canyon Prospect
Related records 10227365

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.0691, 38.19469 (WGS84)
Elevation 2060
Relative position .75 MILES EAST OF PHONOLITE HILL

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

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 Piute

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 030S 02W 13 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SW 1/4 , SW 1/4 , SE 1/4 , SEC. 13 T 30 S R 2 1/2 W

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Clay Gangue
Limonite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Argillic

Analytical data

Result PPM: CU = 18
Result PB = 61
Result ZN = 23
Result MO = 3
Result AU = LESS THAN .02

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) -112.0691, 38.19469

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Basin And Range Transition

Ore body information

  • General form VEIN
    Depth to top 0M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Phonolite Hill Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 45.72M
    Overall length 15.24M
    Overall width 3.05M

Comments on the workings information

  • 1 INCLINED SHAFT, CAVED - LENGTH FROM SIZE OF DUMP, DOZER CUTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: GRAB SAMPLE

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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