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Manganese King

Past Producer in Kane county in Utah, United States with commodity Manganese
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  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. Production statistics
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10088279
MRDS ID DB01452
Record type Site
Current site name Manganese King
Related records 10276083

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.09465, 37.18416 (WGS84)
Elevation 1689
Relative position 1 MILE SOUTHEAST OF WHITE ROCKS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Kane(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Eightmile Pass(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Kanab(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Cedar City(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 042S 003W 02 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • NE, SW, NW, SE OF SECTION 2

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Psilomelane Ore
Pyrolusite Ore
Calcite Gangue

Analytical data

Result SHIPMENTS AVERAGED 48.94 % : OTHER 51 % MN, S1O2 6.6 % , FE 0.7 % , GAO 1.4 %, S 0.05 , P2O5 0.05 , ZN 0.5 , AL2O2 1.83 %, PB 0.084

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Chinle Formation
    Rock description Chinle Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.09465, 37.18416
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Faults (?)

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR, BLANKET
    Strike E-W
    Dip 15 DEG N
    Thickness 3.05M
    Length 106.68M
    Width 91.44M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Purplish Shale Containing Concretions, Joints And Fractures

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1908
Discoverer L. Frank, John H. Brown

Mining district

District name Paria

Land status

Ownership category State

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Frazier, V. C.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Utah State Land Board

Production statistics

  • Year 1941
    Material MN
    Accuracy Estimate
    Description Ap_Grade: ^48.94 % Mn
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Manganese Manganese 49wt-pct

Comments on the production information

  • BURANEK, A. M., 1945

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 121.92M
    Overall length 60.96M
    Overall width 30.48M

Comments on the workings information

  • 5 ADITS, 140 FT, 10 FT, 110 FT, 90 FT, 60 FT RESPECTFULLY. ONLY TWO ADITS ACCESSIBLE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BURANEK, A. M., 1945 , NOTES ON THE MANGANESE KING PROPERTY NEAR KANAB, KANE COUNTY, UTAH: UTAH DEPARTMENT OF IND. & PUB. DEVELOPMENT CIRCULAR 33

  • Deposit

    1945 RECON UTAH DEPT. OF PUBL. & IND. DEV. CIRCULAR 3

Reporter information

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

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