Manganese Prospect

Occurrence in Grand 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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  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 10041865
MRDS ID M057718
Record type Site
Current site name Manganese Prospect
Alternate or previous names Squaw Park

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.37653, 38.82665 (WGS84)
Relative position 4 MILES NW OF DEWEY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grand(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cisco SW(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Moab(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Moab(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Colorado-Kane Springs(hydrologic unit)

Upper Colorado-Dolores(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Colorado-Dolores(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(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 Grand

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 023S 023E 04 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ORE IS VUGGY, HARD, AND CRYSTALLINE

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrolusite Ore

Analytical data

Result A CHIP SAMPLE CONTAIN 31.7 % MN, AND 0.17 % FE.

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.37653, 38.82665

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET VEIN
    Dip 4 NE
    Thickness 0.3M
    Length 36.58M
    Width 30.48M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Thompson District

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BAKER, A. A., DUNCAN, D. C., HUNT, C. B., 1952 , MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF SE UTAH: USGS BULL 979-A, P. 126 - 127

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.