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Cinder Hill Cinder Pit

Past Producer in Iron county in Utah, United States with commodity Volcanic Materials
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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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10101612
MRDS ID D005503
Record type Site
Current site name Cinder Hill Cinder Pit
Alternate or previous names Utah Dept of Highways Pit #11036.
Related records 10251932

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.95968, 37.77526 (WGS84)
Elevation 1914
Relative position 1000 FT. NW OF CINDER HILL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Iron(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Summit(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Panguitch(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 035S 010W 10 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION: NE 1/4, SE 1/4, NE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Volcanic Materials Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Mafic Volcanic Rock > Basalt
    Rock unit name Basalt Cinders
    Rock description Basalt Cinders
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pleistocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pleistocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Mafic Volcanic Rock > Basalt

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.95968, 37.77526
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Hurricane Fault System

Ore body information

  • General form CINDER CONE
    Thickness 12.19M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 12.19M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Basalt Flow

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner J. R. Thompson

Comments on the workings information

  • SITE CONSISTS OF BULLDOZER CUTS ON THE SLOPE WITH A PILE OF VOLCANIC MATERIAL AND A LOADING CHUTE AT THE FOOT OF THE SLOPE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    UTAH DEPT. OF HIGHWAYS, MATERIALS INVENTORY, 1965, IRON COUNTY

  • Production

    WILBERG, D.E., 1979

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1979 Wilberg, Dale E. Bureau of Land Management

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

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