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Black Rock

Occurrence in Beaver county in Utah, United States with commodity Manganese
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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. Alteration
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10094837
MRDS ID DC15090
Record type Site
Current site name Black Rock
Alternate or previous names Shotwell
Related records 10275453

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.52968, 38.34469 (WGS84)
Elevation 2219
Relative position SOUTH END OF CORK RIDGE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaver(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Black Ridge(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Beaver(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Beaver Bottoms-Upper Beaver(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Fishlake 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 Beaver

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 028S 006W 28 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary

Alteration

  • (Local) Rock Is Silicified, Sericitized, Chloritized, And Pyritized.

Analytical data

Result STOCKPILED ORE ASSAY 28 % MN, ORES FROM FACE OF WORKINGS ASSAY 5 - 18 % MN

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.52968, 38.34469
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 0.3M
    Length 0.91M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Newton District

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • SMALL AMOUNT OF HIGH GRADE AVAILABLE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CRITTENDEN, M.D. JR, 1951 , MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF WESTERN UTAH: USGS BULL 979 - A, P. 20

  • Deposit

    CALLAGHAN, E. AND PARKER, R.L., 1961 , GEOL MAP OF PART OF THE BEAVER QUAD: USGS MAP MF - 202

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1974 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAR-1979 Wong, George (Tooker, Ed) U.S. Geological Survey

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

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