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King Iron Prospects

Occurrence in Beaver county in Utah, United States with commodity Iron
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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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10020125
MRDS ID DC12606
Record type Site
Current site name King Iron Prospects

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.54081, 38.15218 (WGS84)
Elevation 2109
Relative position 2 MILES SW OF THE PINK KNOLLS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaver(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

The Tetons(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wah Wah Mountains South(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(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)

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 Beaver

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 030S 015W 33 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ORE IS HARD AND MASSIVE.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Goethite Ore
Limonite Ore

Analytical data

Result 1970 CHEM ANALYSIS: 45.6 % FE, 8.4 % SILICA, 0.16 % S, 0.06 % P, 0.20 % MN

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.54081, 38.15218
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description The Strata Strike Ne, Dip 35 Nw And Is Part Of The Blue Mountain Thrust Plate Which Is Cut By High-Angle And Tear Faults.

Ore body information

  • General form FISSURE REPLACEMENT BODY
    Length 12.19M
    Width 3.66M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Pine Grove District

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • ORE POTENTIAL IN 1970 WAS 1,000 TONS OF IRON ORE.

Comments on the workings information

  • DEVELOPMENT CONSIST OF NUMEROUS BULLDOZER CUTS AND ONE DRILL HOLE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BULLOCK, K.C., 1970 , IRON DEPOSITS OF UTAH: UTAH G & MS BULL 88 , P. 13

  • 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-MAR-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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