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King Iron Prospect

Occurrence in Beaver 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010353
MRDS ID D003963
Record type Site
Current site name King Iron Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.53998, 38.1519 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaver(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

The Tetons(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wah Wah Mountains South(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(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 Beaver

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 015W 030S 33 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Goethite Ore
Hematite Ore
Limonite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.53998, 38.1519
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • High Angle Fault Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Southern Wah Wah Mountains Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • THIS ORE BODY HAS A POTENTIAL OF ABOUT 1,000 TONS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BULLOCK, K. C., 1970 , UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURVEY BULL. 88 .

  • Deposit

    NACKOWSKI, M. P., AND LEVY, ENRIQUE, 1959 , UTAH ENG. AND EXP. STATION BULL. 101 .

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ONE LARGE OUTCROP OF IRON ORE MEASURES 40 FEET LONG AND UP TO 12 FEET WIDE ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1978 Steven, T. A. 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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