Brockman Monazite Property

Occurrence in Owyhee county in Idaho, United States with commodities REE, Uranium
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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10093773
MRDS ID W027350
Record type Site
Current site name Brockman Monazite Property
Related records 10266158

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.59037, 43.11458 (WGS84)
Elevation 1113
Relative position 7.5 MI S OF MURPHY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Owyhee(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sinker Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Murphy(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Boise(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Snake-Succor(hydrologic unit)

Middle Snake-Boise(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Snake(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management ID)

Bureau of Land Management ID BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Idaho Owyhee

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Boise 003S;004S 002W;002W 32,33;04,05 Idaho

Commodities

Commodity Importance
REE Critical Tertiary
Uranium Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Monazite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Pegmatite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Silver City Granite;Rhyolite
    Rock description Silver City Granite;Rhyolite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Pegmatite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Payette Formation
    Rock description Payette Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) Granodiorite and two-mica granite.

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Murphy Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Earl And Herbert Brockman

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    POWERS, H. A., 1955 , BROCKMAN MONAZITE PROPERTY: IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY OPEN-FILE REPT., 2 P

  • Deposit

    1955 RECON IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY OPEN-FILE REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1977 Miller, Pat J. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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