Crescent Creek, Imperial and North Wash Placers

Past Producer in Garfield county in Utah, United States with commodity Gold
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. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10015260
MRDS ID DB00600
Record type Site
Current site name Crescent Creek, Imperial and North Wash Placers

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.54573, 38.09832 (WGS84)
Elevation 1707
Relative position BENCHES ALONG CRESCENT CREEK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Garfield(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Turkey Knob(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Hanksville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Salina(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Dirty Devil(hydrologic unit)

Upper Colorado-Dirty Devil(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Colorado-Dirty Devil(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(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 Garfield

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 031S 011E 26 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • PARTS OF S 1/2 OF TWP.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Hematite Gangue
Ilmenite Gangue
Magnetite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Alluvium
    Rock unit name Fanglomerate
    Rock description Fanglomerate

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.54573, 38.09832

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Length 9655.8M
    Width 4827.9M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Black, Sandy Streaks At Base Of Surface Gravel

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Large
Significant No
Year of first production 1914

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • FINE FLAKES OF GOLD

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SEMI-ACTIVE, DEVELOPMENT WORK INTERMITTENTLY DONE IN 1970S

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1978 Doelling, Hellmut H. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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