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White Hills Deposit

Past Producer in Piute county in Utah, United States with commodities Aluminum, Potassium, Kaolin
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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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10009247
MRDS ID D002015
Record type Site
Current site name White Hills Deposit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.16134, 38.48553 (WGS84)
Elevation 2393
Relative position 4.5 MI NE OF MARYSVALE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Piute(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Marysvale(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Beaver(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Sevier(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 Piute

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 027S 003W 01,02,11,12 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • CENTER OF WHITE HILLS AREA. MOST OF THE STRONGLY ALTERED MATERIAL IS ON FEDERAL LAND, SECTION 12 BUT SOME OCCURS IN SECTION 2 WHICH IS STATE LAND

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Aluminum Critical Primary
Potassium Primary
Kaolin Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • PROJECT 9350 - 01393 ALUNITE RESOURCES

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Alunite Ore
Kaolinite Ore
Dickite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Latite Tuff And Breccia Has Been Alunitized, Silicified, And Kaolinized

Analytical data

Result ALUNITE CONTENT HIGHLY VARIABLE. 10 ANALYSES RANGE FROM 2.6 % TO 59.6 % ALUNITE

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Latite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Latite
    Rock unit name Bullion Canyon Volcanics
    Rock description Bullion Canyon Volcanics

Nearby scientific data

(1) Older alluvial deposits
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Deposit Is 4000 Ft West Of The Sevier Fault

Ore body information

  • General form LENS
    Thickness 60.96M
    Length 335.28M
    Width 274.32M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Alteration Areas Controlled By Faulting

Comments on the geologic information

  • CONSIDERABLE KAOLIN WITH ALUNITE IN ALTERED HOST

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Large
Significant No
Discovery year 1915
Discoverer M. Krotki
Year of first production 1916

Mining district

District name Marysvale Region/Henry District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner M. Krotki

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • RESOURCE ESTIMATE BASED ON USBM & USGS EXPLORATION AND EVALUATION DURING WW2
  • ALTHOUGH ORE LOCALLY HIGHER THAN 30 PERCENT ALUNITE, AVERAGE IS BELOW 30 PERCENT, THEREFORE "RESERVE" IS REALLY RESOURCE, SEE J - 1, J - 2 BELOW

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Area 0.002HA
    Length 713.23M
    Overall length 7.62M
    Overall width 3.05M

Comments on the workings information

  • IN 1944 THE USBM CLEANED OUT 9 OLD ADITS WHOSE TOTAL LENGTH BECAME 2340 FT. THERE IS ALSO A SMALL QUARRY MEASURING 10 FT BY 25 FT, AND SEVERAL PITS

Comments on development

  • IN 1944 , THE USBM DUG 8200 FT OF TRENCHES, AND PLACED 7 VERTICAL DIAMOND DRILL HOLES WHICH TOTALED 1501 FT IN LENGTH

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1975 Hall, Robert B. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1978 Starritt, Bruce C. U.S. Geological Survey

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