Trotter Mine

Past Producer in Utah county in Utah, United States with commodity Manganese
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. 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. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021345
MRDS ID DC15697
Record type Site
Current site name Trotter Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.94579, 39.87217 (WGS84)
Elevation 1658
Relative position BETWEEN GOOSENEST AND CROOKED CANYON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Utah(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Slate Jack Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Nephi(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Price(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Utah Lake(hydrologic unit)

Jordan(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 Utah

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 011S 001W 09 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrolusite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Limestone Is Sheared And Altered

Analytical data

Result AVG. 12.1 % MN
Result RANGE 8.8 - 37.95 % MN

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.94579, 39.87217

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Beds Strike N-Nw, Dip 45 Ne; Fault Zone (N 10 - 20 E, 75 E)

Ore body information

  • Length 121.92M
    Width 76.2M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Long Ridge

Comments on the workings information

  • OPEN PITS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CRITTENDEN, MD, JR, 1951 , MANGANESE DEP OF W. UTAH: USGS BULL 979 - A, P. 46

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1985 Wong, George U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1979 Tooker, Ed U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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