Iron Duke Mine

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10015225
MRDS ID DB00529
Record type Site
Current site name Iron Duke Mine
Related records 10252041

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.20356, 38.49219 (WGS84)
Elevation 1981
Relative position 3 MILES NORTH 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 04 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • NE 1/4 NE 1/4 SE 1/4 SEC. 04

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore
Phlogopite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Hydrothermal

Analytical data

Result 65.5 % FE

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.20356, 38.49219

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Red Hills Caldera And Central Intrusive

Ore body information

  • General form POD/LENS
    Strike N 70 DEG E
    Dip 80 DEG S
    Length 30.48M
    Width 12.19M
    Depth to top 0M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1911

Mining district

District name Henry (Durkee) Mining District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner East Utah Mining Co.
    Home office Reno, Nv.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Energy Fuels

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Area 0.011HA
    Overall length 18.29M
    Overall width 6.1M

Comments on the workings information

  • ONE ADIT CAVED 30 FT. FROM PORTAL

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: DUMP SAMPLE

  • Deposit

    CALLAGHAN, EUGENE, 1973 , MINERAL RESOURCE POTENTIAL OF PIUTE COUNTY, UTAH AND ADJOINING AREA: UTAH GEOL. & MIN. SURVEY BULL. 102 , P. 52 .

  • Deposit

    BULLOCK, K. C., 1976 , IRON DEPOSITS OF UTAH: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY BULL. 88 , P. 102 .

  • Deposit

    1973 RECON UGMS BULL. 102

  • Deposit

    1976 RECON UGMS BULL. 88 (UPDATE)

  • Production

    CALLAGHAN, E., 1973

  • Reserve-Resource

    TRIMBLE, L. M., 1978

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit LAST ACTIVE IN 1912

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1978 Trimble, Larry M. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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