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Clay Junction Deposit

Past Producer in Piute county in Utah, United States with commodity Clay
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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. Alteration
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010340
MRDS ID D003947
Record type Site
Current site name Clay Junction Deposit

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Centroid
Geographic coordinates: -112.12966, 38.33049 (WGS84)
Relative position Original record had no coordinates, so this was plotted to the middle of the state/county area.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Piute(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Piute Reservoir(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 003W 030S 09,16 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Clay Primary

Alteration

  • (Local) Argillaceous

Nearby scientific data

Centroid (1) -112.12966, 38.33049
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Large
Significant No

Mining district

District name Sevier Valley Area

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • ACCORDING TO VAN SANT ( 1964 ) TESTS INDICATE THAT THE MATERIAL COULD BE USED AS AN ADMIXTURE TO MANUFACTURE HEAVY CLAY PRODUCTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    VAN SANT, J. N., 1964 , US BUR MINES INF CIRC 8213

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE DEPOSIT IS DESCRIBED AS CALCAREOUS ARGILLACEOUS TUFF A SMALL AMOUNT HAS BEEN MINED BY THE LOCALS AS ROOFING FOR TURKEY SHEDS AND POTATO CELLARS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-78 Steven, T. A. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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