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Escalante

Occurrence in Garfield county in Utah, United States with commodities Titanium, Metal, Iron, Zirconium, Thorium
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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. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10068519
MRDS ID W001592
Record type Site
Current site name Escalante

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.60075, 37.66666 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Garfield(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Dave Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Escalante(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Escalante(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Escalante(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 Garfield

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
36S 03E 17 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Titanium, Metal Critical Tertiary
Iron Tertiary
Zirconium Critical Tertiary
Thorium Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Anatase Unknown
Ilmenite Unknown
Magnetite Unknown
Monazite Unknown
Rutile Unknown
Zircon Unknown

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.60075, 37.66666
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N 15 DEG. W
    Dip 8-12 DEG. SW
    Thickness 3.66M
    Length 182.88M
    Width 60.96M

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: PLACER-FOSSIL-BEACH AND MARINE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Kaiparowitz Plateau Area

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DOW, V. T., AND BATTY, J. V., 1961, RECONNAISSANCE OF TITANIFEROUS SANDSTONE DEPOSITS OF UTAH, WYOMING, NEW MEXICO, AND COLORADO: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES REPT. INV. 5860, 52 P

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSIT HAS TWO DISTINCT LAYERS. ANALYSIS OF SAMPLE FROM UPPER LAYERS SHOWED 13.4% TIO2, 6.5% ZRO2, 11.7% FE, AND 0.09% EQUIVALENT THO2 WHILE ONE FROM THE LOWER LAYERS SHOWED 24.1% TIO2, 18.1% ZRO2, 17.8% FE, AND 0.15% EQUIVALENT THO2. THE POTENTIAL SOURCES OF TITANIFEROUS SANDSTONE IN 16 UTAH DEPOSITS, INCLUDING THE ESCALANTE, ARE ESTIMATED AT 1,043,000 ST WITH WEIGHTED AVERAGED GRADE PERCENTS OF 17.98 TIO2, 5.67 ZRO2, 20.98 FE, AND 0.01 EQUIVALENT THO2.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1972 Cooper, Margaret U.S. Geological Survey

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