North Fork Prospect

Occurrence in Millard county in Utah, United States with commodity 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. 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. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10094835
MRDS ID DC14913
Record type Site
Current site name North Fork Prospect
Alternate or previous names King and Pinto Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.29772, 38.81107 (WGS84)
Relative position NEAR THE HEAD OF NORTH FORK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Millard(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sunset Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Sevier(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Fishlake National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Millard

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 023S 4W 13 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • EXACT LOCATION UNKNOWN

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ORE IS MOSTLY HARD AND SPONGY WITH SOME OCHER.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Goethite Ore
Limonite Ore

Analytical data

Result 1970 CHEM. ANALYSIS: 51.2 % FE, 4.8 % SILICA, 0.23 % S, 0.24 % P, AND 0.02 % MN

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.29772, 38.81107

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Length 60.96M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zone

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: MINERALIZATION

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Pavant Range

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BULLOCK, K. C., 1970 , IRON DEPOSITS OF UTAH: UTAH GEOL & MIN SURV BULL 110 , P. 70

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 06-29-1971

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NO RECENT ASSESSMENT DONE. ; 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-FEB-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.