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Croten Canyon

Occurrence in Kane 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. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10069122
MRDS ID W002538
Record type Site
Current site name Croten Canyon

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.28407, 37.23333 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Kane(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sit Down Bench(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Smoky Mountain(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Escalante(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Lake Powell(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

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) -111.28407, 37.23333
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 1.22M
    Length 76.2M
    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, P. 5

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit EIGHT DEPOSITS OCCUR ON WALLS OF CROTEN CANYON AND 2 ON THE WALLS OF SUNDAY CANYON. A COMPOSITE SAMPLE FROM ACCESSIBLE DEPOSITS IN THE TWO CANYONS ASSAYED 13.5 PERCENT TIO2, 3.7 PERCENT ZRO2, 12.7 PERCENT FE, AND 0.08 PERCENT EQUIVALENT THO2. THE POTENTIAL RESOURCES OF TITANIFEROUS SANDSTONE IN 16 UTAH DEPOSITS, INCLUDING THE CROTEN AND SUNDAY CANYONS, ARE ESTIMATED AT 1,043,000 ST WITH WEIGHTED AVERAGE 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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