Sargent

Occurrence in Kane county in Utah, United States with commodities Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Thorium, Iron
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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10094741
MRDS ID DB01535
Record type Site
Current site name Sargent
Related records 10227554

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.39157, 37.3561 (WGS84)
Elevation 1871
Relative position 1/2 MILE WEST OF BYRD OIL DRY HOLE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Kane(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Needle Eye Point(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Smoky Mountain(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Escalante(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Lake Powell(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 040S 005E 05 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION IS APPROXIMATE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Titanium, Metal Critical Tertiary
Zirconium Critical Tertiary
Thorium Tertiary
Iron Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Ilmenite Ore
Magnetite Ore
Zircon Ore
Limonite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Limonitization

Analytical data

Result 9.5 PERCENT TIO2 , 2.9 PERCENT ZRO2 , 8.3 PERCENT FE, AND 0.06 PERCENT ETHO2

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Straight Cliffs Formation
    Rock description Straight Cliffs Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.39157, 37.3561

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LARGE LENS
    Strike NW
    Dip 2 DEG SW
    Thickness 2.44M
    Length 121.92M
    Width 60.96M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 91.44M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Beach Sands

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Kaiparowits Plateau

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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