Black John Property

Occurrence in Kane 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 10041874
MRDS ID M057771
Record type Site
Current site name Black John Property

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.09465, 37.18443 (WGS84)
Elevation 1701

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Kane(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Eightmile Pass(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Kanab(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Cedar City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Paria(hydrologic unit)

Upper Colorado-Dirty Devil(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Colorado-Dirty Devil(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 Kane

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 042S 003W 02 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • ACC

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Psilomelane Ore
Pyrolusite Ore

Analytical data

Result ( 1949 ) CHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF ORES: 7.1 % MN, 48.7 % SIO2 , 14.3 % AL203 , 3.1 % FE, 0.062 % P, 3.3 % CAO, 54.5 % INSOLUBLES.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.09465, 37.18443

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form NODULES, VEIN FILLINGS, DISSEMINATED
    Dip 1.5 SW
    Thickness 5.18M
    Length 304.8M

Comments on the geologic information

  • TWO INCHE NODULES OF GRAY LIMESTONE ARE COMMON IN THE SHALE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Kitchen Corral Canyon

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS IN THIS AREA CONSIST OF TWO SHAFTS 11 AND 18 FT DEEP, SEVEN OPEN CUTS, THREE SMALL OPEN PITS, AND FIVE SHORT ADITS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HAVENS, R. AND AGEY, W. W., 1949 , CONCENTRATION OF MANGANESE ORES FROM PIUTE AND KANE COUNTIES: US BUREAU OF MINE REPT. INVEST. 4551 .

  • Deposit

    BAKER, A. A., DUNCAN, D. C., HUNT, C. B., 1952 , MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF SE UTAH: USGS BULL 979 - B, P. 143 - 154 .

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-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.