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Brimstone Sulphur Prospect

Past Producer in Beaver 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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10087010
MRDS ID D004431
Record type Site
Current site name Brimstone Sulphur Prospect
Related records 10202800

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.38053, 38.2994 (WGS84)
Elevation 1731
Relative position 3/4 MILE SE OF BRIMSTONE RESERVOIR

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaver(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Frisco SW(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wah Wah Mountains South(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Sevier Lake(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

BLM Administrative Area(land status)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Beaver

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 028S 014W 11 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS SE1/4 NE1/4 SE1/4 SECTION 11.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sulfur Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Sulfur Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Bleached White (Kaolin)

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Rock unit name Volcanics (Squaw Peak Tuff)
    Rock description Volcanics (Squaw Peak Tuff)
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.38053, 38.2994
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin & Range

Ore body information

  • General form POD-IRREGULAR
    Strike N-70 DEG E
    Dip 30 DEG N
    Thickness 1.22M
    Length 76.2M
    Width 60.96M
    Depth to top 0.91M
    Depth to bottom 9.14M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Wah-Wah

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 60.96M
    Overall depth 9.14M

Comments on the workings information

  • SEVERAL SMALL DOZER CUTS & SHORT STOPES

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    UTAH GEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, 1973 GEOLOGY OF THE MILFORD AREA PUBLICATION NO.

  • Deposit

    1913 GEOLMAP BUTLER, B.S., USGS PP # 80

  • Deposit

    1920 RECON BUTLER, B.S., USGS PP # 111

  • Deposit

    1962 GEOLMAP BAER, J.L., B.Y.U. GEOL. STUDIES V. 9

  • Deposit

    1963 COMPILE HEYL, A.V., USGS BULL 1135-B

  • Deposit

    1973 COMPILE UGA PUBL. # 3

  • Deposit

    1973 GEOLMAP UGMS SPECIAL STUDIES # 46

  • Production

    EVERTS, M.L., 1979, GEOLOGIST

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1979 Everts, Michael L. Bureau of Land Management

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