Congo No. 1 Prospect

Occurrence in Sanpete county in Utah, United States with commodity Manganese
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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10041845
MRDS ID M057684
Record type Site
Current site name Congo No. 1 Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.56133, 39.79551 (WGS84)
Elevation 2256
Relative position 3 MILES WSW OF INDIANOLA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sanpete(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Spencer Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Nephi(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Price(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Spanish Fork(hydrologic unit)

Jordan(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Sanpete

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 012S 003E 11 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary

Analytical data

Result ONE SAMPLE ASSAYED 25.1 % MN

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Losty Canyon

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PRATT, A. R. AND CALLAGHAN, E., 1970 , LAND AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF SANPETE CO.: UTAH GEOL. & MIN. SURV. BULL. 85 , P. 55

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE BLOCKS OF BLACK MANGANESE OXIDE WAS FOUND IN RESIDUAL SOIL. NO MANGANESE DEPOSITS WERE FOUND IN BEDROCK. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1979 Wong, George (Tooker, Ed) Bureau of Land Management
Updater 01-MAR-1982 Wong, George U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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