East White Mountain Prospect

Occurrence in Beaver county in Utah, United States with commodity Kaolin
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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10042318
MRDS ID M058896
Record type Site
Current site name East White Mountain Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.29331, 38.30635 (WGS84)
Elevation 1914
Relative position 3,900 FEET N 65 E FROM WHITE MOUNTAIN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaver(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

White Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wah Wah Mountains South(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 Beaver

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 029S 013W 10 SE OF NW OF NE Utah

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1975)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Kaolin Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Halloysite Ore
Kaolinite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Advanced Argillic, Minor Silicification

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff
    Rock unit name Tuff Member Of The Quartz Latite Of Squaw Peak
    Rock description Tuff Member Of The Quartz Latite Of Squaw Peak
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.29331, 38.30635

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Pioche Mineral Belt, Sevier Orogenic Belt
Type of structure Local
Structure description East-West Striking Fracture Zone

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • East-West Striking Fracture Zone, Bedding

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name White Mountain Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF ONE SHALLOW SHAFT AND TWO PROSPECT PITS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., AND MORRIS, H.T., 1979, PRELIMINARY GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE FRISCO QUADRANGLE, BEAVER COUNTY, UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN-FILE REPORT 79-724, SCALE 1:48,000

  • Deposit

    SHUBAT, M.A., 1985, ON-SITE INVESTIGATION, UGMS

  • Deposit

    STRINGHAM, B. 1963, HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF THE FRISCO QUADRANGLE, BEAVER COUNTY, UTAH: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY SPEC. STUDIES NO.4

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSIT CONSISTS OF ADVANCED ARGILLIC ALTERATION OF LITHIC TUFF, IN PART CONTROLLED BY AN EAST-WEST STRIKING FRACTURE ZONE. OPALINE SILICA IN VEINLETS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1985 Shubat, Michael A. Utah Geological and Mineral Survey

Beyond USGS

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