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Mineral Resources of the Bull Mountain Wilderness Study Area, Garfield and Wayne Counties, Utah Mineral Resources of the Bull Mountain Wilderness Study Area, Garfield and Wayne Counties, Utah U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1751-B Chapter B Mineral Resources of the Bull Mountain Wilderness Study Area, Garfield and Wayne Counties, Utah By RUSSELL F. DUBIEL, CALVIN S. BROMFIELD, STANLEY E. CHURCH, WILLIAM M. KEMP, MARK J. LARSON, and FRED PETERSON U.S. Geological Survey JOHN T. NEUBERT U.S. Bureau of Mines U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1751 MINERAL RESOURCES OF WILDERNESS STUDY AREAS- HENRY MOUNTAINS REGION, UTAH DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DONALD PAUL MODEL, Secretary U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Dallas L. Peck, Director UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1988 For sale by the Books and Open-File Reports Section U.S. Geological Survey Federal Center Box 25425 Denver, CO 80225 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Mineral resources of the Bull Mountain Wilderness Study Area, Garfield and Wayne Counties, Utah. (Mineral resources of wilderness study areas Henry Mountains Region, Utah ; ch. B) (Studies related to wilderness) (U.S. Geological Survey bulletin ; 1751) Bibliography: p. Supt. of Docs, no.: I 19.3:1751-8 1. Mines and mineral resources Utah Bull Mountain Wilderness. 2. Bull Mountain Wilderness (Utah) I. Dubiel, Russell F. II. Series. III. Series: Studies related to wilderness wilderness areas. IV. Series: U.S. Geological Survey bulletin ; 1751-B. QE75.B9 no. 1751-B 557.3s 87-600433 [TN24.U8] [553'.09792'52] [TN24.C6] STUDIES RELATED TO WILDERNESS Bureau of Land Management Wilderness Study Areas The Federal Land Policy and Management Act (Public Law 94-579, October 21, 1976) requires the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Bureau of Mines to conduct mineral surveys on certain areas to determine the mineral values, if any, that may be present. Results must be made available to the public and be submitted to the President and the Congress. This report presents the results of a mineral survey of the Bull Mountain (UT-050-242) Wilderness Study Area, Garfield and Wayne Counties, Utah. CONTENTS Abstract Bl Summary Bl Introduction B3 Previous work B3 Investigations by the U.S. Bureau of Mines B4 Investigations by the U.S. Geological Survey B4 Appraisal of identified resources B5 Mining activity B5 Mining districts, mineralized areas, and identified resources B5 Oil and gas B5 Sand, gravel, and stone B5 Gypsum B6 Assessment of potential for undiscovered resources B6 Geology B6 Geochemistry B7 Mineral and energy resources B7 Metals other than uranium and vanadium B7 Coal B9 Uranium and vanadium B9 Oil and gas BIO Gypsum BIO Geothermal energy BIO References cited Bll Appendix B13 PLATE [Plate is in pocket] 1. Map showing mineral resource potential and geology of the Bull Mountain Wilderness Study Area FIGURES 1. Summary map showing mineral resource potential of the Bull Mountain Wil­ derness Study Area B2 2. Index map showing location of the Bull Mountain Wilderness Study Area B4 3. Map showing oil and gas leases in and near the Bull Mountain Wilderness Study Area B6 4. Map showing distribution of Shinarump and Monitor Butte fluvial systems, authigenic dolomite, and black carbonaceous mudstone used to evaluate ura­ nium potential in the Bull Mountain Wilderness Study Area and vicinity B8 Contents MINERAL RESOURCES OF WILDERNESS STUDY AREAS-HENRY MOUNTAINS REGION, UTAH Mineral Resources of the Bull Mountain Wilderness Study Area, Garfield and Wayne Counties, Utah By Russell F. Dubiel, Calvin S. Bromfield, Stanley E. Church, William M. Kemp, Mark J. Larson, and Fred Peterson U.S. Geological Survey John T. Neubert U.S. Bureau of Mines ABSTRACT steep and rugged. There are no perennial streams in the study area; vegetation is sparse and precipitation is low. The Bull Mountain (UT-050-242) Wilderness Study A search was made for mines, prospects, and Area comprises 11,800 acres in the Henry Mountains in mineralized areas in and within 0.5 mi (mile) of the study Garfield and Wayne Counties, Utah. Field and laboratory area; none were found within the study area. The USBM investigations were conducted by the USGS (U.S. Geologi­ collected and analyzed rock, panned-concentrate, and cal Survey) from 1981 to 1984 and by the USBM (U.S. stream-sediment samples to determine the extent of Bureau of Mines) in 1986. These investigations indicate that mineralized areas. Samples were analyzed for gold and 25 there are no identified resources in the study area. The additional elements. Selected samples were analyzed for northern part of the study area has a high potential for copper, lead, vanadium, and uranium. Additionally, five undiscovered gypsum resources, and the entire area has a gypsum samples were analyzed for purity. Hydrocarbon low resource potential for undiscovered copper, lead, zinc, leases cover approximately one third of the Bull Mountain molybdenum, silver, gold, uranium and vanadium, coal, oil Wilderness Study Area. No drilling has been done for and gas, and geothermal resources (fig. 1). hydrocarbons in the study area. Sedimentologic studies of the Upper Jurassic Morrison SUMMARY Formation and geologic mapping indicate that gypsum beds as much as 30 ft (feet) thick occur in the Tidwell Member at The Henry Mountains consist of numerous Tertiary the base of the Morrison Formation and underlie the (see geologic time chart in the Appendix) igneous stocks, northern part of the Bull Mountain Wilderness Study Area. and smaller, subsidiary igneous satellite bodies that were The northern part of the study area has a high mineral injected radially from the stocks into the adjacent sedimen­ resource potential for gypsum. tary strata. Each of these three types of intrusive igneous Stream-sediment and rock samples were collected by bodies was intruded into and domed the overlying sedimen­ the USGS from the Henry Mountains region for geochemical tary strata. Subsequent erosion by the Colorado River and its analysis as part of an investigation of several wilderness tributaries has exposed the igneous intrusive stocks and study areas in the region. Geochemical analyses of the their subsidiary satellite bodies as five mountains and samples collected in and around the Bull Mountain associated major and minor topographic features. The Bull Wilderness Study Area indicate that there are anomalous Mountain Wilderness Study Area is just east of Mt. Ellen, concentratons of metals in the stream sediment (copper and which is the northernmost and one of the largest igneous molybdenum) and panned concentrates (gold, silver, cop­ stocks of the Henry Mountains. The study area includes per, lead, and zinc) from Bromide Basin, which is about 1 mi several subsidiary igneous satellite bodies, including Bull southwest of the study area. However, these geochemical Mountain. Sedimentary rocks ranging in age from Jurassic studies do not indicate an extension of the Bromide Basin to Cretaceous were eroded to form a highly dissected anomaly northeast into the Bull Mountain Wilderness Study topography having narrow and deep canyons and broad, Area. Five to ten miles north of Bromide Basin two isolated gravel-mantled pediments (benches). Mountain slopes are sample localities 0 5-1.5 mi outside of the study area have Bull Mountain Wilderness Study Area B1 110°45' 110°40' 38° 10' APPROXIMATE BOUNDARY OF THE BULL MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS STUDY AREA (UT-050-242) f r 3 H/B f BULL ^MOUNTAIN 38°05' 3 MILES J Figure 1 (above and facing page). Summary map showing mineral resource potential of the Bull Mountain Wilderness Study Area, Garfield and Wayne Counties, Utah. anomalous gold values and are associated with areas of field.The coal-bearing Emery Sandstone Member has been slightly altered rock. These two localities are widely eroded from the study area, and the coal-bearing Perron separated and appear to represent small, isolated mineral Sandstone Member intermittently crops out in the southern occurrences. The mineral resource potential is low for these part of the study area. Sections of the Perron Sandstone metals. The entire Bull Mountain Wilderness Study Area is Member contain thin, discontinuous coal seams that range within the Henry Mountains coal field. The Emery and Perron in thickness from 0 to 5 ft. The Dakota Sandstone also Sandstone Members of the Cretaceous Mancos Shale are contains thin, discontinuous coal seams less than 1 ft thick. important coal-bearing strata that occur within the coal The potential for undiscovered coal resources is low B2 Mineral Resources of Wilderness Study Areas Henry Mountains Region, Utah EXPLANATION OF MINERAL RESOURCE sparsely vegetated plateaus. Elevations in the region POTENTIAL range from about 4,800 ft along the Fremont River to 11,522 ft on North Summit Ridge of Mt. Ellen. Bull Mountain attains a height of 9,187 ft. The Bull Mountain H/C Geologic terrane having high mineral resource potential for gypsum, with certainty level Wilderness Study Area is about 20 mi southwest of C Hanksville and about 25 mi northwest of Lake Powell. Geologic terrane having high mineral resource The study area is accessible on the north from potential for gypsum, with certainty level Hanksville by the Sawmill Basin road, which defines the B western boundary of the area. The east, south, and north L/B Geologic terrane having low mineral resource boundaries of the study area are accessible by unim­ potential for uranium and vanadium, with proved dirt roads extending westward from paved State certainty level B Applies to entire study Highway 95, which extends south from Hanksville. area This report presents an evaluation of the mineral L/C Geologic terrane having low mineral resource endowment (identified resources and mineral resource potential for copper, lead, zinc, molyb­ potential) of the study area and is the product of several denum, silver, gold, coal, oil and gas, and separate studies by the U.S. Bureau of Mines and the geothermal energy, with certainty level C Applies to entire study area U.S.
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