| Deposit ID | 10009258 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | D002128 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Earth Sciences Southern Extension |
| Geographic coordinates: | -113.55303, 38.14163 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Elevation | 2128 |
| Relative position | 34 MI. W OF MINERSVILLE |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Iron(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)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Utah | Beaver |
| United States | Utah | Iron |
| Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salt Lake | 031S | 015W | 05 | Utah |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Aluminum Critical | Primary |
| Potassium | Primary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Alunite | Ore |
| Host or associated | Associated | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) | ||||||
| |||||||
| Host or associated | Host |
|---|---|
| Rock type | Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) |
| Rock unit name | Needles Range Formation |
| Rock description | Needles Range Formation |
| (1) | -113.55303, 38.14163 |
|---|
| General form | IRREGULAR |
|---|---|
| Thickness | 91.44M |
| Length | 3048M |
| Width | 609.6M |
| Development status | Occurrence |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Both |
| Deposit size | Large |
| Significant | No |
| Discovery year | 1970 |
| Discoverer | Earth Sciences Inc. |
| District name | Southern Wah Wah Mtns. |
|---|
| Type | Owner-Operator |
|---|---|
| Owner | Earth Sciences, Inc. |
| Home office | Golden, Co. |
| Type | In-situ | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Estimate year | 1975 | ||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | D002128 |
1958 RECON J. H. MACKIN: AM. JOUR. SCI., VOL. 258
1971 DIREXPL EARTH SCIENCES: DATA
NO PUB INFO, ONLY PRIVATE COMPANY FILES.
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 01-APR-1975 | Hall, Robert B. | U.S. Geological Survey | |
| Updater | 01-JUL-1978 | Starritt, Bruce C. | U.S. Geological Survey |
Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.