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Jolly Green Giant Claims

Occurrence in Piute county in Utah, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite
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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. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10015226
MRDS ID DB00531
Record type Site
Current site name Jolly Green Giant Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.33967, 38.46775 (WGS84)
Elevation 2438
Relative position 1 1/2 MILES EAST OF DEER CREEK GUARD STATION

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Piute(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Brigham(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

Fishlake National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Piute

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 027S 4W 08,17 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • NORTH 1/2 OF SECTION 17 AND SOUTH 1/2 OF SECTION 8

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Calcite Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Pyritic, Argillic

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) -112.33967, 38.46775
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin & Range - Colorado Plateau Transition Zone

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N - S
    Dip VERTICAL

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Quartz Veins

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Gold Mountain Mining District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 30.48M
    Overall depth 15.24M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Production

    PERRY, L. I., 1978

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1978 Perry, Lee I. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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

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