Mine detail: Red Wash Gypsum Occurrence

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Location: Kane County, Utah, United States, North America
Lat / long: 37.2886, -112.32355
dep_id: 10055120
mrds_id: RE00092
Commodity type: nonmetallic
Major mineral: Gypsum-Anhydrite
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Gypsum
orebody_fm: BLANKET
conc_proc: Evaporation
Reporter: Bishop, Charles E.
hrock_unit: Carmel (Gypsiferous Member);
hrock_type: Evaporite
Structure: Fault
tectonic: Kaibab Uplift
References:
  • Deposit:: GOODE, H.D., 1973, PRELIMINARY GEOLOGY MAP OF THE SKUTUMPAH CREEK QUADRANGLE, UTAH: USGS MAP MF-521
  • Deposit:: GREGORY, H.E., 1951, THE GEOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY OF PAUNSAUGUNT REGION, UTAH: USGS PP. 226
  • Deposit:: STOKES, W.L., 1963, TRIASSIC AND JURASSIC FORMATIONS OF SOUTHWESTERN UTAH, IN HEYLMUN, E.B. (ED), GUIDEBOOK TO THE GEOLOGY OF SOUTHWESTERN UTAH: INTERMOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS, TWELFTH ANNUAL FIELD CONFERENCE.
  • Deposit:: WITHINGTON, C.F., 1967, GYPSUM AND ANHYDRITE, IN UGMS (ED.), MINERAL AND WATER RESOURCES OF UTAH: UGMS BULL. 73, P. 177-185.
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