Junkyard Clogs Deposit

Occurrence in Piute county in Utah, United States with commodity Kaolin
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. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10015709
MRDS ID DB01851
Record type Site
Current site name Junkyard Clogs Deposit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.17827, 38.19636 (WGS84)
Elevation 1896

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Piute(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Junction(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Beaver(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

East Fork 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 030S 003W 15 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SEC SUB: NE 1/4 SE 1/4 SE 1/4 SEC 15

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Kaolin Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Kaolinite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Kaolinitic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.17827, 38.19636

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Sevier Fault

Ore body information

  • General form LENS
    Thickness 3.66M
    Length 76.2M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 3.66M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Kingston Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.005HA
    Overall length 12.19M
    Overall width 4.57M

Comments on the workings information

  • ONE DOZER CUT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TRIMBLE, L. M., 1978 , UTAH GEOL. AND MINERALOG. SURVEY ON-SITE INVESTIGATION

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.