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Sulphur Spring

Occurrence in Emery county in Utah, United States with commodity Sulfur
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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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10071441
MRDS ID W014834
Record type Site
Current site name Sulphur Spring
Related records 10251429

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.45017, 38.97275 (WGS84)
Elevation 1311
Relative position 5.3 MILES NORTH 50 DEG WEST OF THE HANKSVILLE INTERCHANGE ON INTERSTATE HIGHWAY 70

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Emery(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Spotted Wolf Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

San Rafael Desert(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Salina(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

San Rafael(hydrologic unit)

Lower Green(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Green(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 Emery

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 021S 013E 24 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sulfur Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Sulfur Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Alluvium
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.45017, 38.97275
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description San Rafael Swell

Ore body information

  • General form ELIPTICAL
    Thickness 0.61M
    Length 228.6M
    Width 45.72M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 0.61M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name San Rafael Swell District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • A FEW SHALLOW TRENCHES WERE PRESENT IN 1911 WHEN HESS VISITED THE OCCURRENCE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HESS, F. L., 1911, A SULFUR DEPOSIT IN THE SAN RAFAEL CANYON, UTAH; IN LINDGREN W., 1911, CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, PT. 1, USGS BULL. 530

  • Deposit

    USGS RECON HESS F. L., REPORT FOR BULL. 53

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1977 Trimble, Larry M. Bureau of Land Management

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