Wild Horse Gypsum Deposit

Occurrence in Emery county in Utah, United States with commodity Gypsum-Anhydrite
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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10073007
MRDS ID W018781
Record type Site
Current site name Wild Horse Gypsum Deposit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.82407, 38.54415 (WGS84)
Elevation 1463
Relative position 4.4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BULLBERRY SPRING

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Emery(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Little Wild Horse Mesa(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

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

Salina(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Muddy(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 Emery

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 026S 010E 16 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION IS A POINT ON A TYPICAL OUTCROP AND IS NOT THE SOLE GYPSUM OUTCROP.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gypsum-Anhydrite Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Alabaster Ore
Anhydrite Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.82407, 38.54415

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description San Rafael Swell
Type of structure Local
Structure description Periodic Folds

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 1.83M
    Depth to top 9.14M
    Depth to bottom 12.19M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name San Rafael Swell

Land status

Ownership category State

Comments on the workings information

  • NO WORKINGS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Reserve-Resource

    MC CARTHY, B. M., 1977

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSIT IS INTERMITTENT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1977 Mc Carthy, Blair M. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.