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Little Oak Creek Prospects

Past Producer in Juab county in Utah, United States with commodity Iron
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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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10020448
MRDS ID DC13251
Record type Site
Current site name Little Oak Creek Prospects
Alternate or previous names Iron Crown

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.17468, 39.35078 (WGS84)
Relative position 0.5 MILE SOUTH OF LITTLE OAK CREEK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Juab(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Williams Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Delta(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Delta(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Sevier(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Fishlake National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Juab

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 017S 003W 10 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • EXACT LOCATION UNKNOWN, THE MINE IS WITHIN A HALF MILE RADIUS OF THE GIVEN LOCATION.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Goethite Ore
Hematite Ore
Limonite Ore

Analytical data

Result 1970 CHEM. ANALYSIS OF LIMONITE ORE CONTAINS 45.5 % FE, 8.0 % SILICA, 0.01 % S, 0.04 % P, 0.04 % MN

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.17468, 39.35078
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Basin And Range Block Faulting Has Outlined The Eastern Mountain Front Of The Canyon Range

Ore body information

  • Thickness 0.61M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Bedding

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Canyon Range

Comments on the production information

  • "EARLY DAY" PRODUCTION.

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A 30 FT LONG OPEN CUT AND A 30 FT ADIT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BULLOCK, K. C., 1970 , IRON DEPOSITS OF UTAH: UTAH GEOL & MIN SURV BULL 88 , P. 63

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 06-29-1971

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit TWO OUTCROPS 600 FT APART.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1974 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-FEB-1979 Wong, George (Tooker, Ed) U.S. Geological Survey

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