Croton and Sunday Canyons

Occurrence in Kane county in Utah, United States with commodities Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Thorium, 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. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10015563
MRDS ID DB01502
Record type Site
Current site name Croton and Sunday Canyons
Related records 10276152

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.30102, 37.32277 (WGS84)
Elevation 1646
Relative position ON CLIFFS ABOVE ROGERS AND SUNDAY CANYONS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Kane(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

East of the Navajo(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Smoky Mountain(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Escalante(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Lake Powell(hydrologic unit)

Upper Colorado-Dirty Devil(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Colorado-Dirty Devil(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(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 Kane

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 040S;040S 005E;006E Utah

Comments on the location information

  • AT LEAST 12 INDIVIDUAL DEPOSITS SCATTERED OVER 15 SQ. MILE AREA.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Titanium, Metal Critical Tertiary
Zirconium Critical Tertiary
Thorium Tertiary
Iron Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Ilmenite Ore
Magnetite Ore
Zircon Ore
Limonite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Limonitization

Analytical data

Result TIO2 12.4 - 27.4 PERCENT, ZRO2 2.8 - 8.6 PERCENT, IRON 10.4 - 18.9 PERCENT, ETHO2 .09 TO .10 PERCENT - 3 SAMPLES, 40 LBS. EACH

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Straight Cliffs Formation
    Rock description Straight Cliffs Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.30102, 37.32277

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Croton Syncline

Ore body information

  • General form LARGE LENSES
    Thickness 1.52M
    Length 176.78M
    Width 146.3M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fossil Beach Sands

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Kaiparowits Plateau

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Escalante Titanium Corp.
    Home office Eau Claire, Wisc.
  • Type Owner
    Owner W. L. Davis
    Home office Escalante
    First year 1961

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • 12 SCATTERED DEPOSITS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: DOW AND BATTY, 1961 , P. 46

  • Deposit

    DOW, V. T., AND BATTY, V. J., 1961 , RECONNAISSANCE OF TITANIFEROUS SANDSTONE DEPOSITS OF UTAH, WYO., NEW MEX., AND COLO.: US BUREAU OF MINES, REPT. INV. 5860

  • Deposit

    1961 RECON US BUREAU OF MINES, R. I. 586

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 12 INDIVIDUAL DEPOSITS LOCATED, IN DEEPEST PART OF DOUBLY PLUNGING SYNCLINE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1978 Doelling, Hellmut H. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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