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Cove Mountain Deposits

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10094845
MRDS ID DC15395
Record type Site
Current site name Cove Mountain Deposits

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.83692, 37.41526 (WGS84)
Relative position NORTH SLOPE OF COVE MTN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Washington(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Maple Ridge(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Saint George(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Cedar City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Virgin(hydrologic unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Dixie 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 Washington

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 039S;039S 018W;017W 01,02,11,12,06,07 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • PROPERTY INCLUDES THE IRON ROD GROUP OF CLAIMS AND GREGERSON CLAIM.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Hematite Ore

Analytical data

Result NON COMMERCIAL ORE. CHIP SAMPLES CONTAIN 44.7 % FE, 31.6 % SILICA, 0.39 % S, 0.05 % P, 0.18 % MN

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.83692, 37.41526
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form VEINLETS, FILLINGS, AND REPLACEMENT
    Thickness 1.07M
    Length 1609.3M

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE RENCHER FM IS 500 FT THICK, COMPOSED OF WHITE TO PINKISH QUARTZ LATITE TUFF. IT IS OVERLAIN BY COVE MOUNTAIN FM.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Bull Valley District

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF 598 FT OF TRENCHES, BULLDOZER CUTS, AND DRILL HOLES BY THE U. S. BUREAU OF MINES. OLD MINE WORKINGS CONSIST OF A FEW SHORT ADITS.

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: HIGH STRIPPING RATIO MAKING MINING UNECONOMICAL.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BULLOCK, K. C., 1970 , IRON DEPOSITS OF UTAH: UTAH GEOL & MIN SURV BULL 88 , P. 89 - 91

  • Deposit

    ZOLDOK, S. W. AND WILSON, S. R., 1953 , BULL VALLEY IRON ORE DEPOSIT: USBM REPT INV. 4948 , P. 17

  • Deposit

    CONSV. COMP. DATE, 06-30-1971

  • Reserve-Resource

    BULLOCK, KC ( 1970 )

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE DEPOSIT IS BANDED.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1994 Wong, George U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-APR-1979 Tooker, Ed U.S. Geological Survey

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

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