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Spry Clay

Occurrence in Garfield county in Utah, United States with commodity Clay
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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. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10090980
MRDS ID DB01208
Record type Site
Current site name Spry Clay
Related records 10227388

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.37134, 38.04858 (WGS84)
Elevation 2036
Relative position 1 MILE SOUTH OF HELL HOLE AND 1 MILE WEST OF US 89

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Garfield(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bull Rush Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Beaver(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper 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 Garfield

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 032S 005W 12 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION: SE 1/4 NW 1/4 NW 1/4 OF SECTION 12

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Clay Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Clay Ore
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Argillization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Paleocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Paleocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Paleocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Mudstone > Claystone
    Rock unit name Claron Formation
    Rock description Claron Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.37134, 38.04858
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Markagunt Plateau Bounded By The Hurricane And Sevier Faults
Type of structure Local
Structure description Forceful Intrusion

Ore body information

  • General form BEDDED
    Thickness 15.24M
    Length 365.76M
    Width 91.44M
    Depth to top 0M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Large
Significant No
Discoverer Ervin Lay

Mining district

District name Spry

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, H. H., 1975 , GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF GARFIELD COUNTY, UTAH: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERALOG. SURVEY, BULL. 107

  • Deposit

    1965 RECON UGMS - FILE

  • Reserve-Resource

    DOELLING, H. H., 1975

Reporter information

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

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