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Lion Black Sands

Occurrence in Box Elder county in Utah, United States with commodities Titanium, Metal, Zirconium
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10015828
MRDS ID DB02078
Record type Site
Current site name Lion Black Sands
Related records 10178314

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.96225, 41.2752 (WGS84)
Elevation 1562
Relative position BETWEEN LION MTN. AND PILOT RANGE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Box Elder(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lucin(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;007N 019W;018W 01,02,12;31,32 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • PARTS OF ABOVE LISTED SECTIONS PLUS SEC. 36-7N-19W AND SEC. 6-6N-18W

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Titanium, Metal Critical Tertiary
Zirconium Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Ilmenite Ore
Zircon Ore
Magnetite Gangue

Analytical data

Result AVG. OF 12 SAMPLES YIELDS 111 POUNDS ILMENITE PER CUBIC YARD AND 155 POUNDS OF MAGNETITE

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Sand and Gravel
    Rock unit name Alluvial Sand
    Rock description Alluvial Sand
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.96225, 41.2752
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Length 4023.25M
    Width 4023.25M
    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 Lucin

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • TO DEPTH OF 3 FEET.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: DOELLING, IN PREPARATION

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, H. H., IN PREPARATION, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF BOX ELDER COUNTY, UTAH: UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY BULLETIN

  • Reserve-Resource

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

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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

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