Mine detail: Magnesite Hill Prospect

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Location

Lat / long:

39.8655, -113.46583

Resource(B)

Primary:	Magnesite
Secondary:	Fluorine-Fluorite
Ore:	Fluorite, Magnesite
Orebody form:	LENTICULAR

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	None
Development status:	Prospect

Geology

Host rock:	Bell Hill Dolomite
Host type:	Dolomite
Associated rock:	Rhyolite Dike
Associated type:	Rhyolite
Structure:	Basin & Range/Sevier Orogenic Structures Including A Ne Trending Asymmetrical Anticline, The Juab Fault Zone & Other Fractures Which Strike N70w & East-West
Tectonic:	Sevier Orogenic Belt
Alteration processes:	Marble

References

MRDS	M057580
DEP	10041800
Reference	{Deposit:: PERRY, L.I., & MCCARTHY, B.M., 1976, LEAD & ZINC IN UTAH: UTAH GEOL. & MIN. SURVEY OPEN FILE RPT. #22.}{Deposit:: HEYL, A.V., 1963, OXIDIZED ZN DEPOSITS OF UT: USGS BULL. 1135-B}{Deposit:: OLIVEIRA, M.E., 1975, GEOLOGY OF FISH SPRINGS MINING DISTRICT: BYU GEOLOGY STUDIES V. 22, PT. 1}{Deposit:: CHRISTENSEN, W.J., 1977, FISH SPRINGS MINING DISTRICT: UNIV. OF UTAH MS THESIS}{Deposit:: 1920 RECON BUTLER, B.S., USGS PP 111}{Deposit:: 1963 RECON HEYL, A.V., USGS BULL. 1135-B}{Deposit:: 1975 RECON BYU GEOLOGY STUDIES V. 22}{Deposit:: 1976 COMPILE UT. GEOL. & MIN. SURVEY BULL. 110}{Deposit:: 1976 RECON UTAH GEOL. & MIN. SURVEY OPEN FR #22}{Production:: EVERTS, M.L., 1980, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SUR.}
Reporter	Wong, George (Tooker, Ed), Everts, Mike L.