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Pumicite Deposit

Occurrence in Owyhee county in Idaho, United States with commodity Volcanic Materials
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10070281
MRDS ID W013096
Record type Site
Current site name Pumicite Deposit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.56517, 43.19048 (WGS84)
Elevation 914
Relative position 2 1/2 MI. S. OF MURPHY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Owyhee(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Murphy(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Murphy(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Boise(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Snake-Succor(hydrologic unit)

Middle Snake-Boise(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Snake(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management ID)

Bureau of Land Management ID BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Idaho Owyhee

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Boise 003S 002W 03 Idaho

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Volcanic Materials Tertiary

Analytical data

Result CHEMICAL ANALYSIS - FE2O3 - 0.8
Result AL2O3 - 13.3
Result SIO - 63.3
Result CAO - 1.2
Result MGO - 1.0 TOTAL NA2O - 6.2
Result AVAILABLE NA2O - 0.19
Result TOTAL K2O - 8.0
Result AVAILABLE K2O - 0.37
Result LOSS ON IGNITION - 6.1

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff
    Rock unit name Snake River Basalt
    Rock description Snake River Basalt
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pleistocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pleistocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pleistocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff
    Rock unit name Idaho Formation-Tuff
    Rock description Idaho Formation-Tuff

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.56517, 43.19048
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENS
    Strike N 10 DEG E
    Dip 10 DEG E
    Thickness 3.66M
    Length 304.8M
    Width 60.96M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Murphy Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: ACCESSIBLE. LACK OF OVERBURDEN WOULD FACILITATE MINING.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ASHER, R. R., 1965, VOLCANIC CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS IN IDAHO: IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY PAMPHLET 135, P. 63

  • Deposit

    1963 RECON IBMG. PAMPHLET 13

  • Reserve-Resource

    ASHER, R.R., 1965, IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY PAMPHLET 135, P. 63.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1976 Matthews, John Y.; Miller, Pat U.S. Geological Survey

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

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