Bulldog Ridge

Occurrence in Garfield county in Utah, United States with commodity Gold
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. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10088123
MRDS ID DB00707
Record type Site
Current site name Bulldog Ridge
Related records 10275885

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.78212, 37.94055 (WGS84)
Elevation 3048
Relative position 1 1/2 MILES SE OF MT. PENNELL PEAK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Garfield(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Pennell(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Hite Crossing(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Escalante(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper 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 Garfield

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 033S 010E 14 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Ore
Limonite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Local Metamorphism

Analytical data

Result LOW GRADE

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Rock unit name Henry Mtns. Monzonite Porphyry
    Rock description Henry Mtns. Monzonite Porphyry
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Slate
    Rock unit name Mancos Shale
    Rock description Mancos Shale
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.78212, 37.94055

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Henry Mtns. Laccoliths

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike NW
    Dip VERTICAL
    Thickness 3.05M
    Length 804.65M
    Width 3.05M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Igneous-Sedimentary Contact

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Henry Mtns./Pennell

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • ONLY MINOR SHOWS

Comments on the workings information

  • 4 TO 5 SHALLOW PITS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1978 Doelling, Hellmut H. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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