Birch Spring Prospect

Occurrence in Wayne county in Utah, United States with commodities Uranium, Copper, Vanadium

Sections on this page

Identification information
Geographic coordinates
Site location context
Geographic areas
Public Land Survey System information
Commodities
Materials information
Nearby scientific data
Geologic structures
Controls for ore emplacement
Economic information about the deposit and operations
Mining district
Links to other databases
Bibliographic references
Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID	10041872
MRDS ID	M057756
Record type	Site
Current site name	Birch Spring Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates:	-111.43436, 38.33442 (WGS84)
Elevation	2195
Relative position	2 MILES NW OF TORREY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Wayne(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Torrey(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Loa(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Salina(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Fremont(hydrologic unit)

Upper Colorado-Dirty Devil(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Colorado-Dirty Devil(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(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	Wayne

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian	Township	Range	Section	Fraction	State
Salt Lake	028S	004E	35		Utah

Commodities

Commodity	Importance
Uranium	Tertiary
Copper	Tertiary
Vanadium Critical	Tertiary

Materials information

Materials	Type of material
Brochantite	Ore
Chalcanthite	Ore
Iron	Gangue

Analytical data

Result	1952 GRAB SAMPLE FROM THE CLAY LENS CONTAIN 0.49 % U, 0.09 % V2O5 , 0.35 % CU.

Nearby scientific data

(1)	Glen Canyon Group	ListMap

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure	Local
Structure description	Joints In The Sandstone Trends N 10 E To N 10 W.

Controls for ore emplacement

Channel Fill

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status	Occurrence
Commodity type	Metallic
Deposit size	Small
Significant	No

Mining district

District name	Henry Mountains District/Capitol Reef

Reference information

Links to other databases

Agency	Database name	Acronym	Record ID	Notes
USGS	Mineral Resources Data System	MRDS	M057756

Bibliographic references

Deposit

SMITH, J. F., JR. AND OTHERS, 1963 , GEOLOGY OF THE CAPITOL REEF AREA: USGS PROF. PAPER 363 , P. 69 .
Deposit

SMITH, J. F., JR. AND OTHERS, 1952 , PROGRESS REPORT ON GEOLOGIC STUDIES IN THE CAPITOL REEF AREA: USGS TEI-203 , P. 23 - 24 .

Reporter information

Type	Date	Name	Affiliation	Comment
Reporter	01-AUG-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.