Family Butte Deposit

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10071855
MRDS ID W015527
Record type Site
Current site name Family Butte Deposit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.89213, 38.76497 (WGS84)
Elevation 1902
Relative position 2.6 MILES WEST OF FAMILY BUTTE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Emery(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Copper Globe(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

San Rafael Desert(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Salina(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Muddy(hydrologic unit)

Upper Colorado-Dirty Devil(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Colorado-Dirty Devil(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 Emery

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 024S;010E 009E;023S 01,02,03,33,34,28 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • UTM POINT LOCATION IS A TYPICAL OUTCROP OF THIS DEPOSIT

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Oil Sands Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • OIL IMPREGNATED SANDSTONE AND SILTSTONE

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.89213, 38.76497

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description San Rafael Swell

Ore body information

  • General form POD LENSES

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Lens And Paleochannels

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Deposit size Large
Significant No

Mining district

District name San Rafael Swell

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • NO KNOWN MINING OF THIS DEPOSIT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    RITZMA, H.R., 1973, OIL IMPREGNATED ROCK DEPOSITS OF UTAH: UTAH GEOL. & MIN SURVEY MAP 33 2 SHEETS

  • Deposit

    US BUREAU OF MINES, 1965, SURFACE AND SHALLOW OIL - IMPREGNATED ROCKS AND SHALLOW OIL FIELDS IN THE UNITED STATES: US BUR. OF MINES.

  • Deposit

    RITZMA, H.R., 1973, OIL IMPREGNATED ROCK DEPOSITS OF UTAH: UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY, MAP 33, 2 SHEETS.

  • Deposit

    1946 RECON A. A. BAKER - USGS BULL 951

  • Deposit

    1965 COMPILE BALL ASS USBM MON. 12

  • Deposit

    1965 COMPILE BALL ASS. USBM MONOGRAPH 12

  • Deposit

    1973 RECON UTAH GEO. & MIN SURVEY MAP 33

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1977 Campbell, Jock A. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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