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Potash Butte Deposit

Occurrence in Sevier county in Utah, United States with commodities Aluminum, Potassium
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Reserves and resources
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10094252
MRDS ID D002000
Record type Site
Current site name Potash Butte Deposit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.21272, 38.52941 (WGS84)
Elevation 2073
Relative position 5.6 MI. N OF MARYSVALE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sevier(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Antelope Range(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Sevier(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier 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 Sevier

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 026S 004W 22,23 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • CREST OF ANTELOPE RANGE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Aluminum Critical Tertiary
Potassium Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • PROJECT 9350 - 01393 ALUNITE RESOURCES

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Alunite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Argillic Alteration

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
    Rock unit name Bullion Canyon Volcanics
    Rock description Bullion Canyon Volcanics

Nearby scientific data

(1) Alluvium and colluvium
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Comments on the geologic information

  • CALLAGHAN (1973, P. 103) SAYS ALTERATION MOSTLY ARGILLIC NOT ALUNITIC

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Discovery year 1915
Discoverer W. Johnson

Mining district

District name Marysvale Region/Henry District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner W. Johnson

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1941
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Aluminum Al 50 wt-pct Aluminum Trace 1941

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • NO RESOURCE ESTIMATE MADE. DEPOSIT APPARENTLY HAS SMALL POTENTIAL
  • THOENEN (1941) QUOTES UNPUB RESERVE ESTIMATE BY CALLAGHAN

Comments on the workings information

  • SEVERAL PITS AND "LARGE" QUARRY

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CALLAGHAN, E., 1938 , PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE ALUNITE DEPOSITS OF THE MARYSVALE REGION, UTAH: USGS BULL. 886 - D, P. 129 .

  • Deposit

    CALLAGHAN, E., 1973 , MINERAL RESOURCE POTENTIAL OF PIUTE COUNTY, UTAH AND ADJOINING AREA: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERALOG. SURVEY BULL. 102 , P. 103 .

  • Deposit

    THOENEN, J. R., 1941 , ALUNITE RESOURCES OF THE UNITED STATES: USBM REPT. INV. 3561 , P. 30 - 31 , 38 .

  • Deposit

    1938 RECON E. CALLAGHAN: BULL. 886-D

  • Deposit

    WW1 DIREXPL W. JOHNSON: PITS

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Discovery Year: WW1

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1975 Hall, Robert B. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1978 Starritt, Bruce C. U.S. Geological Survey

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