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Huntsman Perlite Deposit

Producer in Millard county in Utah, United States with commodity Perlite
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10107916
MRDS ID D003959
Record type Site
Current site name Huntsman Perlite Deposit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.80747, 38.79802 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Millard(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cruz(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Beaver(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 Millard

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 008W;009W 023S 19 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • 3 1/2 - 5 MILES E OF UNION PACIFIC RR LINE AND 23 MILES W OF KANOSH.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Perlite Secondary

Alteration

  • (Local) Not Applicable

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pleistocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.80747, 38.79802
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NACKOWSKI, 1959 , UTAH ENG. EXPERIMENT STATION BULL. NO. 101 , P. 88

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SEVERAL KINDS OF PERLITE OCCUR - LIGHT BLUE-GRAY, BLACK WITH NUMEROUS OBSIDIAN INCLUSIONS, AND SOME IS PERLITIC AGGLOMERATE WITH HIGH ASH CONTENT. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1979 Steven, T. A. U.S. Geological Survey

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