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Black Beauty No. 1 Claim

Occurrence in Washington county in Utah, United States with commodities Manganese, Strontium
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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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021263
MRDS ID DC15409
Record type Site
Current site name Black Beauty No. 1 Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.78164, 37.26776 (WGS84)
Relative position JUST NW OF GUNLOCK RESERVOIR

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Washington(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gunlock(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Saint George(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Cedar City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Virgin(hydrologic unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Washington

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 040S 017W 32 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary
Strontium Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Celestite Ore

Analytical data

Result ORE DOES NOT EXCEED 35 % MN

Nearby scientific data

(1) Entrada and Carmel Formations
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description The Carmel Fm Strikes N 30 W, Near Horizontal Dip Ne

Ore body information

  • General form LENSES, DISCONTINUOUS
    Thickness 0.13M

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE CARMEL FM CONSIST OF RED AND WHITE SILTY CLAY AND SHALE WITH SEVERAL BEDS OF GYPSUM ABOVE THE MANGANESE DEPOSITS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Gunlock Reservoir

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CRITTENDEN, M. D., JR., 1951 , MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF WESTERN UTAH: USGS BULL 979 - A, P. 56

  • Deposit

    ECON. GEOL., 1963, VOL. 58

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1978 Wong, George U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-APR-1979 Tooker, Ed U.S. Geological Survey

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