Pavant Butte South Cinder Pit #2

Past Producer in Millard county in Utah, United States with commodity Volcanic Materials
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. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10087057
MRDS ID D004546
Record type Site
Current site name Pavant Butte South Cinder Pit #2

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.50162, 39.06857 (WGS84)
Elevation 1481
Relative position 4.65 MILES SSE OF PAVANT BUTTE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Millard(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pahvant Butte South(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Delta(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Delta(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Sevier(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 Millard

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 020S 006W 14 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SW 1/4, SW 1/4, SW 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Volcanic Materials Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Basalt Ore
Cinders Ore
Pumice Ore
Scoria Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Mafic Volcanic Rock > Basalt
    Rock unit name Basalt Pumice, Scoria Cinder
    Rock description Basalt Pumice, Scoria Cinder

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.50162, 39.06857

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Thickness 9.14M
    Length 365.76M
    Width 152.4M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Basalt Flow

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner U.S. Bureau Of Land Management

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.736HA
    Overall length 200M
    Overall width 91.44M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    STEGEN, R.J., 1979, UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY; ON SITE INVESTIGATION

  • Production

    STEGEN, R.J., 1979

  • Reserve-Resource

    STEGAN, R.J. 1979

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SCORACCOUS, AQUANT, SOME INTERBEDDED VOLCANIC SAND AND SILT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1979 Stegan, Ralph J. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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