Lost Josephine Prospect

Occurrence in Sanpete county in Utah, United States with commodities Silver, Gold, Lead
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. Alteration
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10041847
MRDS ID M057687
Record type Site
Current site name Lost Josephine Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.7041, 39.36135 (WGS84)
Elevation 2073
Relative position 7.5 MILES NW OF MANTI

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sanpete(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Manti(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Manti(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Price(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

San Pitch(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 Sanpete

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 017S 002E 04 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Tertiary
Gold Tertiary
Lead Tertiary

Alteration

  • (Local) The Conglomerate Has Been Shattered By Faulting And Contains Veinlets Of Pyrite And Calcite.

Analytical data

Result SAMPLES ASSAYED CONTAIN A TRACE 0.01 OZ./TON AU, TRACE 0.80 OZ./TON AG, AND 0.6 % PB.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.7041, 39.36135

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name San Pitch Mountains

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF AN ADIT 175 FT. LONG IN A S 45 W DIRECTION.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PRATT, A. R. AND CALLAGHAN, E., 1970 , LAND AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF SANPETE CO.: UTAH GEOL. & MIN. SURV. BULL. 85 , P. 55 - 56

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit A LIMONITE GOSSAN OCCURS IN THE WEATHERED SURFACE.

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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