Clove Prospect

Occurrence in Iron county in Utah, United States with commodity Manganese
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. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10094818
MRDS ID DC12485
Record type Site
Current site name Clove Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.72914, 37.67747 (WGS84)
Relative position EAST EDGE OF ESCALANTE VALLEY, 4.5 MILES SW OF BERYL JUNCTION.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Iron(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Beryl Junction(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Cedar City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Cedar City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Escalante Desert(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 Iron

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 036S 017W 02 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • OWNED BY IVOR CLOVE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Calcite Gangue
Chalcedony Gangue

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.72914, 37.67747

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N 40 W
    Dip STEEP

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Escalante District

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF SEVERAL PITS AND A 30 - 40 FT SHAFT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CRITTENDEN, M. D., JR., 1951 , MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF WESTERN UTAH: USGS BULL 979 - A, P. 2

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NOT ECONOMIC ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1975 Mc Coy, Gail U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-APR-1979 Wong, George (Tooker, Ed) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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