Burke Mine

Past Producer in Iron 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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mineral rights holdings
  10. Land status
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10275742
MRDS ID D005550
MAS/MILS ID 0490210092
Record type Site
Current site name Burke Mine
Alternate or previous names Burke No.3, Burke No.2
Related records 10011218

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -113.3997, 37.62438 (WGS84)
Elevation 1981
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Iron(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Page Ranch(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Iron

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 036 S 014 W 35 NWNWSW Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -113.3997, 37.62438

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Patented

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner U.S. Steel Corp.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    YOUNG W.E.1947 IRON DEPOSITS IRON CO. UT U.S.BUREAU OF MINES

  • Deposit

    REPORT OF INVESTIGATION 4076,102P

  • Deposit

    BULLOCK KENNETH C.1976 IRON DEPOSITS OF UT UGMS BULL 88 P23-

  • Deposit

    63

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 23-NOV-1983 Utah Geological And Mineral Survey Utah Geological and Mineral Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.