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Rock Springs Lead

Past Producer in Kane county in Utah, United States with commodity Lead
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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. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10088175
MRDS ID DB00939
Record type Site
Current site name Rock Springs Lead

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.98826, 37.48332 (WGS84)
Elevation 1745
Relative position 1/4 MILE, NNE OF ROCK SPRINGS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Kane(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Slickrock Bench(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Smoky Mountain(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Escalante(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Paria(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 Kane

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 038S 002W 22 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • N 1/2 SE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Anglesite Ore
Galena Ore
Limonite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Limonitization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Thousand Pockets Tongue Of Navajo Sandstone
    Rock description Thousand Pockets Tongue Of Navajo Sandstone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.98826, 37.48332
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENSES-PODS
    Strike NORTH
    Dip 2 DEG E
    Thickness 0.61M
    Length 76.2M
    Width 45.72M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 7.62M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Favorable Sandstone Unit-Crossbeds, Concretions, Fractures

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Cannonville Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Byron Davies
  • Type Owner
    Owner Byron Davies

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 10.67M
    Overall depth 7.62M

Comments on the workings information

  • AN ARRASTRE WAS USED TO SEPARATE LEAD MINERALS FROM SANDSTONE. (MAP OF WORKINGS ON BACK PAGE)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Production

    THIS REVIEW

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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

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