Birch Creek Prospect

Occurrence in Daggett county in Utah, United States with commodity Iron
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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10087316
MRDS ID D006248
Record type Site
Current site name Birch Creek Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.99768, 40.92134 (WGS84)
Elevation 2804
Relative position 16 MILES S W OF MANILA, UT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Daggett(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Phil Pico Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Dutch John(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Vernal(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Green-Flaming Gorge Reservoir(hydrologic unit)

Upper Green(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Divide-Upper Green(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Ashley National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Daggett

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 002N 017E 10 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • NOT LOCATED IN FIELD CHECK, POINT CHOSEN FROM DATA PROVIDED IN LITERATURE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Analytical data

Result 36.4 PERCENT FE, 39.3 PERCENT SIO2, 0.09 PERCENT S, 0.56 PERCENT P AND 0.06 PERCENT MN.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.99768, 40.92134

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Uinta Fault On East

Ore body information

  • Thickness 3.05M
    Length 9.14M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 9.14M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discoverer Local Ranchers

Mining district

District name Birch Creek Area

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: BULLOCK, 1970, P. 6, TABLE 1.

  • Deposit

    BULLOCK, K.C., 1970, "IRON DEPOSITS OF UTAH", UTAH GEOL. AND MINER. SURVEY BULL. 88

  • Deposit

    1970 RECON UTAH GEOL. & MIN SURVEY BULL. 8

  • Production

    BULLOCK, K.C, 1970, IRON DEP. OF UTAH, UT GEOL AND MINER SUR. BULL. 88

  • Reserve-Resource

    BULLOCK, K.C., 1970, UT. GEOL. AND MINER SUR., BULL 88 P 21

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1980 Tripp, Bryce T. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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