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Newfoundland Marble

Past Producer in Box Elder county in Utah, United States with commodity Stone, Dimension
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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. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10088321
MRDS ID DB01718
Record type Site
Current site name Newfoundland Marble
Related records 10300494

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.33445, 41.20131 (WGS84)
Elevation 1451
Relative position 5 1/4 MILES SOUTH OF SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD TRACKS IN CANYON ON EAST SIDE OF RANGE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Box Elder(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Desert Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Newfoundland Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Brigham City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Northern Great Salt Lake Desert(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt 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 Box Elder

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 006N 013W 33 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS NE 1/4 NE 1/4 NW 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone, Dimension Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Marble Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Marbleization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Newfoundland Stock
    Rock description Newfoundland Stock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Porphyry > Lamprophyre
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.33445, 41.20131
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 45 E
    Dip 45 DEG SE
    Thickness 60.96M
    Length 914.4M
    Width 121.92M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Near Intrusive Contact

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Newfoundland Mtns.

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the production information

  • PERHAPS 1/2 DOZEN 2' X 3' BLOCKS

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall length 9.14M
    Overall width 6.1M

Comments on the workings information

  • 3 OR 4 SMALL PITS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PADDOCK, R. E., 1956 , GEOLOGY OF THE NEWFOUNDLAND MOUNTAINS, BOX ELDER COUNTY, UTAH: UNIV. OF UTAH, M.S. THESIS

  • Deposit

    1956 GEOLMAP PADDOCK, UNIV. OF UTAH M.S. THESI

  • Production

    DOELLING, H. H., 1979 , UTAH GEOL. AND MINERALOG. SURVEY ON-SITE INVESTIGATION

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit WHITE, FINELY TO MEDIUM CRYSTALLINE MARBLE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1979 Doelling, Hellmut H. Bureau of Land Management

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