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Horseshoe Bend

Past Producer in Uintah county in Utah, United States with commodities Gold, Platinum
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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. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10041837
MRDS ID M057667
Record type Site
Current site name Horseshoe Bend

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.51933, 40.24468 (WGS84)
Elevation 1430
Relative position ABOUT 12 MI SOUTH OF VERNAL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Uintah(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Brennan Basin(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Vernal(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Vernal(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Green(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Green(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Uintah

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 007S 021E 02 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • INNER SIDE OF THE LARGE OXBOW CURVE IN THE GREEN RIVER
  • THE UTM LOCATION IS OF THE CENTER OF THIS AREA. THIS AREA EXTENDS FROM UINTA SPECIAL MERIDIAN BORDER TO ASHLEY CREEK. THE NEXT SEGMENT EAST IS DESCRIBED IN PHOSPHATE DEPOSIT SEG. 3

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Platinum Critical Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • TWO GRAY FLAKES WERE BELIEVED TO BE PLATINUM; ITS PRESENCE HAS NOT BEEN VERIED

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Platinum Ore
Chromite Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Hematite Gangue
Ilmenite Gangue
Zircon Gangue

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 119
USGS model code 39a
Deposit model name Placer Au-PGE
Mark3 model number 54

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) Alluvium and colluvium
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form RIVER BAR
    Length 1609.3M
    Width 402.33M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Stream Hydraulics

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Green River Placers

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1979 Wong, George (Tooker, Ed) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUL-1991 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey

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

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