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Wild Mountain Prospects

Occurrence in Uintah county in Utah, United States with commodities Iron, Copper
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10041840
MRDS ID M057675
Record type Site
Current site name Wild Mountain Prospects

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.0846, 40.65496 (WGS84)
Relative position SW SLOPE OF WILD MOUNTAIN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Daggett(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hoy Mountain(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)

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 Uintah

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 002S 025E 11,14 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • EXACT LOCATION UNKNOWN

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Hematite Ore
Malachite Ore

Analytical data

Result 1970 CHEM ANALYSIS: 29.9 % FE, 47.2 % SILICA, 0.06 % S, 0.02 % P, 0.06 % MN

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.0846, 40.65496
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE LIMESTONE OVERLIES THE CAMBRIAN LADORE FM.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Wild Mountain

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF SHALLOW PITS AND BULLDOZER CUTS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BULLOCK, K C, 1970 , IRON DEPOSITS IN UTAH: UTAH GEOL & MIN SURV BULL 88, P. 80

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1979 Wong, George (Tooker, Ed) 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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