Emily Jane - Stormont Area

Past Producer in Washington county in Utah, United States with commodities Silver, Copper
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. 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 10021274
MRDS ID DC15454
Record type Site
Current site name Emily Jane - Stormont Area

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.37386, 37.23609 (WGS84)
Relative position SOUTH END OF THE BUCKEYE REEF

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Washington(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hurricane(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Washington

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 041S 014W 12 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Copper Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • CHALCOCITE OCCURS AS NODULES UP TO 0.5 INCH.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cerargyrite Ore
Chalcocite Ore
Malachite Ore

Analytical data

Result AVERAGE ORE CONTAIN 20 - 25 OZ/TON SILVER, WITH THE HIGHEST VALUE AT 100 OZ/TON.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.37386, 37.23609

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 1.52M

Comments on the geologic information

  • ORE OCCURS IN A FINE - GRAINED, WHITE TO GRAY SANDSTONE, JUST BELOW THE TECUMSEH - LEEDS SANDSTONE CONTACT.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Harrisburg District

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PROCTOR, P. D., 1953 , GEOLOGY OF THE SILVER REEF MINING DIST: UGMS BULL 44 , P. 148

  • Deposit

    CONSV. COMP. DATE, 04-29-1971

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1981 Wong, George U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-APR-1979 Tooker, Ed U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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