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Blackbird Ore Body

Occurrence in Iron county in Utah, United States with commodities Iron, Phosphorus-Phosphates
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10020073
MRDS ID DC12456
Record type Site
Current site name Blackbird Ore Body

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.18302, 37.7883 (WGS84)
Elevation 1823
Relative position N. END OF THREE PEAKS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Iron(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

The Three Peaks(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 035S 012W 03 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • PROPERTY IS OWN BY UTAH INTERNATIONAL, INC.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary
Phosphorus-Phosphates Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Apatite Ore
Magnetite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.18302, 37.7883
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENSLIKE
    Dip 80 E
    Length 225.55M
    Width 9.14M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Iron Springs District

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BULLOCK, K.C., 1970 , IRON DEPOSITS OF UTAH: UTAH GEOL & MIN SURV BULL 88 , P. 44

  • Deposit

    MACKIN, J.H. AND ROWLEY, P.D., 1976 , GEOL MAP OF THE THREE PEAKS QUAD: USGS MAP GQ - 1297

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 06-28-1971

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1974 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-APR-1979 Wong, George (Tooker, Ed) U.S. Geological Survey

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

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