Escalante

Past Producer in Iron county in Utah, United States with commodities Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper
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. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10011209
MRDS ID D005529
Record type Site
Current site name Escalante
Alternate or previous names Holt
Related records 10179727

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.71998, 37.68191 (WGS84)
Elevation 1611
Relative position 20,700 FEET SOUTHWEST OF BERYL JUNCTION

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Iron(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Beryl Junction(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Cedar City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Cedar City(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Iron

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 036S 017W 02 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS: SE 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Lead Secondary
Zinc Critical Secondary
Copper Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Argentite Ore
Cerargyrite Ore
Malachite Ore
Pyromorphite Ore
Silver Ore
Wulfenite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Latite
    Rock unit name Water Laid Tuff
    Rock description Water Laid Tuff

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.71998, 37.68191

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 25 DEG E
    Dip 70-75 DEG NE
    Length 304.8M
    Width 6.1M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Faulting & Fracturing

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Large
Significant No

Mining district

District name Escalante

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner S. S. Arentz

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 304.8M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ARENTZ, S.S., 1978, GEOLOGY OF THE ESCALANTE MINE, IRON COUNTY, UTAH: UTAH GEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION PUBLICATION #7 P. 59-63

  • Deposit

    PERRY, L.I. & B.M. MCCARTHY, 1976, LEAD AND ZINC IN UTAH: UTAH GEOLOGICAL & MINERAL SURVEY, OPEN FILE REPORT #22 P. 169-175

  • Deposit

    HEYL, A.V., 1963, OXIDIZED ZINC DEPOSITS OF THE UNITED STATES, PART 2, UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 1135-B, 104 P.

  • Production

    L.I. PERRY, 1979

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1979 Perry, Lee I. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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

External references