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Phonolite Hill Perute Deposit

Occurrence in Piute county in Utah, United States with commodity Perlite
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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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10015330
MRDS ID DB00747
Record type Site
Current site name Phonolite Hill Perute Deposit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.08688, 38.19358 (WGS84)
Elevation 2256
Relative position ON WEST SIDE & SOUTH SIDE 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 14 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SW 1/4 SW 1/4 SE 1/4 SEC. 14 T 30 S R 2 1/2 W

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Perlite Tertiary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Glassy Rock > Obsidian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Alkalic Volcanic Rock > Phonolite
    Rock unit name Roger Park Formation
    Rock description Roger Park Formation
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Alkalic Volcanic Rock > Phonolite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.08688, 38.19358
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 12.19M
    Length 365.76M
    Depth to top 0M

Comments on the geologic information

  • PERLITE AND OBSIDIAN ARE MIXED, WITH SMALL LENSES OF GOOD PERLITE. ALL THE OBSIDIAN IS SOMEWHAT HYDRATED.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Kingston Canyon Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner H. Jensen, J. Jensen, D. Robinson, And M. Nay

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Reserve-Resource

    TRIMBLE, L. M., 1973

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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