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Iron Mine Pass Prospects

Past Producer in Millard county in Utah, United States with commodities Iron, Manganese
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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. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021106
MRDS ID DC14934
Record type Site
Current site name Iron Mine Pass Prospects

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.15775, 38.62885 (WGS84)
Elevation 1768
Relative position 0.25 MILES BELOW IRON MINE PASS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Millard(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Iron Mine Pass(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

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

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Sevier Lake(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 Millard

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 025S 012W 23,24 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary
Manganese Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Goethite Ore
Hematite Ore
Limonite Ore

Analytical data

Result 1970 CHEM. ANALYSIS: 53.8 % FE, 2.9 % SILICA, 0.09 % S, 0.29 % P, AND 2.52 % MN

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.15775, 38.62885
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form PODS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Iron Mine Pass

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A 12 FT SHAFT, A SHALLOW PIT 6 FT DEEP AND 10 FT LONG, AN OPEN CUT 20 FT LONG, 10 FT WIDE AND 8 FT DEEP, ANOTHER OPEN CUT MEASURES 30 FT LONG, 10 FT WIDE AND 15 FT DEEP.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BULLOCK, K. C., 1970 , IRON DEPOSITS OF UTAH: UTAH GEOL & MIN SURV BULL 110 , P. 67

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 08-13-1971

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE DEPOSITS OCCUR ALONG A FAULT ZONE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1974 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-FEB-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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