White Rock Claims

Past Producer in Box Elder county in Utah, United States with commodity Stone, Crushed/Broken
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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  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 10015652
MRDS ID DB01717
Record type Site
Current site name White Rock Claims
Related records 10178197

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.33667, 41.20409 (WGS84)
Elevation 1433
Relative position 5 MILES SOUTH OF SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD TRACKS IN CANYON ON EAST SIDE OF RANGE.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Box Elder(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Desert Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Newfoundland Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Brigham City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Northern Great Salt Lake Desert(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt 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 Box Elder

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 006N 013W 28 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS NW 1/4 SE 1/4 SW 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone, Crushed/Broken Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Marble Ore
Tremolite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Rock unit name Tert Newfoundland Stock
    Rock description Tert Newfoundland Stock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Porphyry > Lamprophyre
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Upper Cambrian Undiff
    Rock description Upper Cambrian Undiff

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR/LENTICULAR
    Strike N 45 E
    Dip 68 DEG SE
    Thickness 60.96M
    Length 365.76M
    Width 243.84M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Near Contact Zone, Favorable Limestone Beds

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Newfoundland Mtns

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Vernon J. Nell Jr.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.202HA
    Overall length 60M
    Overall width 27.43M

Comments on the workings information

  • RECTANGULAR SHAPED PIT, MUCH GRAVEL STOCK PILED; ONLY A SMALL AMOUNT ASSUMED SHIPPED.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PADDOCK, R. E., 1956 , GEOLOGY OF THE NEWFOUNDLAND MOUNTAINS, BOX ELDER COUNTY, UTAH: UNIV. OF UTAH, M. S. THESIS

  • Deposit

    1956 GEOLMAP PADDOCK UNIV. OF UTAH M.S. THESI

  • Reserve-Resource

    DOELLING, H. H., 1979 , UTAH GEOL. AND MINERALOG. SURVEY ON-SITE INVESTIGATION.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit WHITE MED. CRYSTALLINE. 45 TO 90 DEG SE VARIANCE ON DIP.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1979 Doelling, Hellmut H. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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