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Roofing Rhyolite

Past Producer in Garfield county in Utah, United States with commodity Stone, Crushed/Broken
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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. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10088295
MRDS ID DB01567
Record type Site
Current site name Roofing Rhyolite
Related records 10300416

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.53134, 37.8722 (WGS84)
Elevation 2231
Relative position SIX MILES NORTHWEST OF PANGUITCH.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Garfield(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Fivemile Ridge(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Panguitch(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Cedar City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Sevier(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Dixie National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Garfield

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 034S 006W 09 SE OF NW Utah

Comments on the location information

  • APPROXIMATELY ONE MILE EAST OF THREEMILE CREEK-DOC LEWIS HOLLOW CONFLUENCE ON NORTH SIDE OF CREEK IN DIXIE NATIONAL FOREST.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone, Crushed/Broken Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Rhyolite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite

Nearby scientific data

(1) Tertiary volcanic rocks, undivided
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Small Dome

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike NORTH
    Dip EAST
    Thickness 22.86M
    Length 91.44M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Ignimbrite

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Panguitch

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner R. Veater And E. Dowdell

Comments on the production information

  • SEVERAL TENS OF TONS

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • SEVERAL THOUSANDS OF TONS

Comments on the workings information

  • SMALL CUT IN HILL.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DOELLG, H.H., 1975, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF GARFIELD COUNTY, UTAH: UGMS BULL. 107, P. 160 - 161

  • Production

    DOELLING (1975)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit LIGHT RHYOLITE WEATHERS INTO 1/2- TO 1-INCH PIECES, GREEN, PINK, CREAM COLORED.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1978 Doelling, Hellmut H. Bureau of Land Management
Updater 01-FEB-1994 Humphries, S. E. (Marcus, S.) U.S. Geological Survey

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