Manganese Deposit

Occurrence in Uintah 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. 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 10041839
MRDS ID M057670
Record type Site
Current site name Manganese Deposit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.51961, 40.54413 (WGS84)
Relative position EAST SIDE OF STEINAKER DRAW

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Uintah(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Steinaker Reservoir(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Dutch John(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Uintah

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 003S 021E 23,24 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • POINT LOCATION UNKNOWN

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrolusite Ore

Analytical data

Result SAMPLES ASSAY 9 % MN, 0.03 %

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.51961, 40.54413

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form NODULES IN PODS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Steinaker Draw

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PRUITT, R.G. JR, 1961 , MINERAL RESOURCES OF UINTAH CO: UGMS BULL 71 , P. 91

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1979 Wong, George (Tooker, Ed) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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