Payday Group

Past Producer in Weber county in Utah, United States with commodity Manganese
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. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10041753
MRDS ID M057510
Record type Site
Current site name Payday Group
Alternate or previous names Shamrock Mine
Related records 10276846

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.58523, 41.30021 (WGS84)
Elevation 1777
Relative position 1100 FT. N.20E OF SOUTH END OF CAUSEY DAM

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Weber(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Causey Dam(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ogden(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ogden(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Weber(hydrologic unit)

Weber(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Weber

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 007N 003E 34 SE OF SE OF NE Utah

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1977)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Psilomelane Ore
Pyrolusite Ore

Analytical data

Result SELECT SAMPLE 39.5% MN
Result 17.2% SIO2
Result 0.3% FE
Result 0.14% P
Result 6.1% BA

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Evanston;Wasatch
    Rock description Evanston;Wasatch

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.58523, 41.30021

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Thickness 6.1M
    Length 30.48M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Base Of Evanston And Wasatch Fms.

Comments on the geologic information

  • QUARTZITE CLASTS ARE A FEW INCHES TO 2 FT IN DIAMETER

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Argenta District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • SHIPPED TO A PAINT COMPANY IN OGDEN, UTAH

Comments on the workings information

  • OPEN PIT WITH 40 FT. DIAMETER AND 25 FT. DEEP. ALONG WITH SEVERAL SHALLOW DIGGINGS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CRITTENDEN, M.D., JR, 1951, MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF WESTERN UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 929-A

  • Deposit

    MULLENS, T.E., 1969, GEOL. MAP OF THE CAUSEY DAM QUADRANGLE, WEBER CO., UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GQ-790

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, H.H., 1981, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL AND MINERAL SURVEY

  • Production

    DOELLING, H.H., 1981

  • Reserve-Resource

    MULLENS, T.E., 1969

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit COATING OF MN MINERALS ON CLASTS, CONCENTRATED IN LOWER 2 FT OF HOST FORMATION, ERRATICALLY DISTRIBUTED

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1981 Doelling, Hellmut H. Utah Geological and Mineral Survey

Beyond USGS

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