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Dry Canyon Claims

Occurrence in Piute county in Utah, United States with commodity Manganese
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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. 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 10041869
MRDS ID M057740
Record type Site
Current site name Dry Canyon Claims
Related records 10300151

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.10188, 38.35803 (WGS84)
Elevation 2134
Relative position JUST SOUTH OF THE MOUTH OF DRY CREEK CANYON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Piute(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Malmsten Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Beaver(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Sevier(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Fishlake National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Piute

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 028S 2W 22,27 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • PROPERTY CONSIST OF 11 CLAIMS

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrolusite Ore

Analytical data

Result GRADE OF THE VEIN ( 1942 ) IS 25 - 35 % MN

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.10188, 38.35803
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N - S
    Dip 90
    Length 76.2M
    Width 0.61M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Dry Creek Canyon

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A 60 FT. ADIT AND 15 FT. OF TRENCHES.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CRITTENDEN, M. D., JR., 1951 , MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF W. UTAH: USGS BULL. 979-A, P. 32 - 33 .

  • Deposit

    CALLAGHAN, E., 1973 , MINERAL RESOURCE POTENTIAL OF PIUTE CO.: UGMS BULL. 102 , P. 57 .

Reporter information

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

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