Indian Spring Bench

Occurrence in Garfield county in Utah, United States with commodities Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Thorium
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. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10088111
MRDS ID DB00623
Record type Site
Current site name Indian Spring Bench
Related records 10300436

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.73823, 37.85138 (WGS84)
Elevation 1780
Relative position 3 1/2 MILES SW OF MT. HILLERS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Garfield(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Copper Creek Benches(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Hite Crossing(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Escalante(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Lake Powell(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 Garfield

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 034S 011E 18 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED SECTIONS

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Titanium, Metal Critical Tertiary
Zirconium Critical Tertiary
Thorium Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Monazite Ore
Zircon Ore
Feldspar Gangue
Hematite Gangue
Magnetite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result AVG. 25.3 PERCENT TIO2 , 6.8 PERCENT ZRO2 , 15.2 PERCENT FE, 0.21 PERCENT ETHO2 ,AND 0.003 PERCENT SC.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Ferron Sandstone Member/Mancos
    Rock description Ferron Sandstone Mbr/Mancos
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.73823, 37.85138

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form CHANNEL
    Strike N 27 DEG W
    Dip 3 DEG SW
    Thickness 1.52M
    Length 475.49M
    Width 30.48M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Beach Placer

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Henry Mountains

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit AVERAGES 3 FEET IN THICKNESS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1978 Doelling, Hellmut H. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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