| Deposit ID | 10009257 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | D002127 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Earth Sciences Ng - Subarea C Deposit |
| Geographic coordinates: | -113.52303, 38.27496 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Elevation | 2195 |
| Relative position | 38 MI. W OF MINERSVILLE |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Beaver(county)
Utah(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Lamerdorf Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)
Wah Wah Mountains South(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)
Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)
Hydrologic units (watersheds)
Sevier Lake(hydrologic unit)
Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)
Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic subregion)
Great Basin(hydrologic region)
Federal lands
ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Utah | Beaver |
| Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salt Lake | 029S | 015W | 22 | Utah |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Aluminum Critical | Primary |
| Potassium | Secondary |
| Sulfur, Sulfuric Acid | Secondary |
| Kaolin | Tertiary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Alunite | Ore |
| Kaolinite | Ore |
| Quartz | Gangue |
| Result | X - RAY AND THIN SECTIONS PROVE ROCK HERE IS QUARTZ - ALUNITE RICH BUT ENTIRE RIDGE NOT HOMOGENEOUS |
|---|---|
| Result | APPRECIABLE KAOLINITE IN LOCAL ZONES |
| Host or associated | Associated | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) | ||||||
| |||||||
| Host or associated | Host |
|---|---|
| Rock type | Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) |
| Rock unit name | Needles Range; Ignimbrite |
| Rock description | Needles Range; Ignimbrite |
| (1) | -113.52303, 38.27496 |
|---|
| General form | VERY LARGE LENS ALONG NE TRENDING RIDGE |
|---|---|
| Thickness | 274.32M |
| Length | 3048M |
| Width | 609.6M |
| Development status | Producer |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Both |
| Deposit size | Large |
| Significant | No |
| Discovery year | 1970 |
| Discoverer | Earth Sciences Inc. |
| Year of first production | 1972 |
| District name | Southern Wah Wah Mtns. |
|---|
| Ownership category | BLM Administrative Area |
|---|
| Type | Owner-Operator |
|---|---|
| Owner | Earth Sciences, Inc. |
| Home office | Golden, Co. |
| Type | In-situ | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Estimate year | 1974 | ||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | D002127 |
PARKINSON, G., 1974 , GOLDEN PILOT PLANT POINTS WAY TO 500,000-TPY ALUMINA-FROM-ALUNITE MINE AND PLANT IN UTAH: ENG. MINING JOUR., V. 175 , NO. 8 , P. 75 - 78
WALKER, W. W., AND STEVENS, D. N., 1974 , THE EARTH SCIENCES-NATIONAL SOUTHWIRE ALUNITE-TO-ALUMINA PROJECT: AIME-TMS PAPER NO. A74 - 64 , P. 663 - 668 .
1958 RECON J.H. MACKIN: AM. JOUR. SCI., VOL. 258
1970 DIREXPL EARTH SCIENCES: PROD
1974 RECON R.B. HALL AND PATTERSON: LIMITED DATA
EARTH SCIENCES, INC.
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | THIS DEPOSIT IS MOST THOROUGHLY EXPLORED OF EARTH SCIENCES' LEASE HOLDINGS' LEASE HOLDINGS |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 01-MAR-1975 | Hall, Robert B. | U.S. Geological Survey | |
| Updater | 01-AUG-1978 | Starritt, Bruce C. | U.S. Geological Survey |
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