White Hills

Past Producer in Piute county in Utah, United States with commodity Aluminum
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. 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. Reserves and resources
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10088088
MRDS ID DB00563
Record type Site
Current site name White Hills
Related records 10252058

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.16272, 38.48553 (WGS84)
Elevation 2286
Relative position 4 1/2 MILES NORTHEAST OF MARYSVALE, UTAH

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Piute(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Marysvale(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Beaver(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Sevier(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(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 Piute

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 027S 003W 01,02,11,12 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • THE COMMON CORNERS OF SECTIONS 1 2 11 12

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Aluminum Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Alunite Ore
Jarosite Gangue
Kaolinite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Alunitization, Silicification, Kaolinization

Analytical data

Result TEN SAMPLES RANGED FROM 2.6 TO 59.3 PERCENT ALUNITE. AVG. GRADE BELOW 35 PERCENT

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Latite
    Rock unit name Bullion Canyon Volcanics
    Rock description Bullion Canyon Volcanics
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Latite

Nearby scientific data

(1) Older alluvial deposits

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Red Hills Caldera And Central Intrusive
Type of structure Local
Structure description Sevier Fault

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Dip 25 DEG SE
    Thickness 76.2M
    Length 426.72M
    Width 335.28M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 76.2M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No

Mining district

District name Henry Mining District

Land status

Ownership category State

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1945
    Measured 1437000mt ore
    Indicated 952000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Aluminum Al 24 wt-pct Aluminum Major 1945

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 496.82M
    Overall depth 76.2M
    Overall length 39.62M
    Overall width 24.38M

Comments on the workings information

  • SIX ADITS, ONE PIT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: CHALLOGHAN, E., 1973 , MINERAL

  • Deposit

    CALLAGHAN, E., 1973 , MINERAL RESOURCE POTENTIAL OF PIUTE COUNTY, UTAH, AND ADJOINING AREA: UTAH GEOL. & MIN. SURVEY BULL. 102 , P 92 - 98

  • Deposit

    1944 DIREXPL USBM REPT. OF INV. 1946

  • Deposit

    1973 RECON UGMS BULL 102

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1978 Trimble, Larry M. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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