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Day and Peterson Claims

Occurrence in Grand county in Utah, United States with commodities Iron, Copper, Gold
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  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 10095582
MRDS ID M057702
Record type Site
Current site name Day and Peterson Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.24486, 38.54916 (WGS84)
Elevation 3109
Relative position 1.15 MILES NW OF MT. WAAS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grand(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Waas(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Moab(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Moab(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Colorado-Kane Springs(hydrologic unit)

Upper Colorado-Dolores(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Colorado-Dolores(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Manti-La Sal 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 Grand

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 026S 024E 11,14 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • EXACT LOCATION UNKNOWN.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary
Copper Tertiary
Gold Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Hematite Ore
Limonite Ore
Magnetite Ore
Malachite Ore

Analytical data

Result CHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF ORE ( 1970 ): 48.2 % FE, 20.2 % SILICA, 0.47 % S, 0.05 % P, 0.01 % MN

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pennsylvanian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.24486, 38.54916
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Along Zones Of Vertical Sheeted Joints.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Miners Basin District/N. La Sal Mtns.

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF SHORT ADITS AND PROSPECT PITS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BULLOCK, K. C., 1970 , IRON DEPOSITS OF UTAH: UTAH GEOL. & MIN. SURV. BULL. 88 , P. 23

Reporter information

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

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