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Unknown Alunite Prospect

Prospect in Piute county in Utah, United States with commodity Aluminum
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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. 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 10015716
MRDS ID DB01860
Record type Site
Current site name Unknown Alunite Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.20439, 38.48886 (WGS84)
Elevation 1913

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Piute(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Marysvale(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Beaver(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle 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 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION: SE 1/4 SE 1/4 NE 1/4 SEC. 4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Aluminum Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Alunite Ore
Hematite Gangue
Limonite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Alunitic

Analytical data

Result 8.28 % AL

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.20439, 38.48886
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Red Hills Caldera And Central Intrusive

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Depth to top 0M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Henry Mining District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall length 57.91M
    Overall width 18.29M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: GRAB SAMPLE

  • Deposit

    TRIMBLE, L. M., 1978 , UTAH GEOL. AND MINERALOG. SURVEY ON-SITE INVESTIGATION

  • Reserve-Resource

    TRIMBLE, L. M., 1978 , UTAH GEOL. AND MINERALOG. SURVEY ON-SITE INVESTIGATION.

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.

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