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Pack Rat Tremolite

Occurrence in Box Elder county in Utah, United States with commodity Asbestos
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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. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10090995
MRDS ID DB01719
Record type Site
Current site name Pack Rat Tremolite
Related records 10203090

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.33834, 41.19936 (WGS84)
Elevation 1561
Relative position 5 1/2 MILES S OF SOUTHERN PACIFIC RR TRACKS IN CANYON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Box Elder(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Desert Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Newfoundland Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Brigham City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Northern Great Salt Lake Desert(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt 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 Box Elder

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 006N 013W 33 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION SE 1/4 NW 1/4 NW 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Asbestos Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Tremolite Ore
Marble Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Newfoundland Stock
    Rock description Newfoundland Stock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike N 45 E
    Dip 68 DEG SE
    Thickness 0.3M
    Length 457.2M
    Width 365.76M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Favorable Dolomite Beds

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Newfoundland Mtns.

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PADDOCK, R. E., 1956 , GEOLOGY OF THE NEWFOUNDLAND MOUNTAINS, BOX ELDER COUNTY, UTAH: UNIV. OF UTAH, M. S. THESIS

  • Deposit

    1956 GEOLMAP PADDOCK UNIV. OF UTAH M. S. THESI

  • Reserve-Resource

    DOELLING, H. H., 1979 , UTAH GEOL. AND MINERALOG. SURVEY ON-SITE INVESTIGATION

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit LENTILS, NODULES, STRINGERS IN DOLOMITIC MARBLE. DIP VARIES 45 TO 90 DEG. SE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1979 Doelling, Hellmut H. Bureau of Land Management

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

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