Noonday Prospect

Past Producer in Sevier 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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10041853
MRDS ID M057697
Record type Site
Current site name Noonday Prospect
Related records 10301076

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.07995, 38.58441 (WGS84)
Relative position 2 MILES SE OF MONROE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sevier(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Monroe Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Sevier(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Fishlake 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 Sevier

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 025S 003W Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrolusite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.07995, 38.58441

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Monroe

Comments on the production information

  • A FEW HUNDRED POUNDS OF MATERIAL AVERAGING 25 % MN IS STOCKPILED BY HAND SORTING.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CRITTENDEN, M. D., JR., 1951 , MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF WESTERN UTAH: USGS BULL. 979-A, P. 36

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1979 Wong, George (Tooker, Ed) Bureau of Land Management
Updater 01-MAR-1982 Wong, George U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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