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Mineral Resources of the Fifty Mile Mountain Wilderness Study Area, Kane County, Utah Mineral Resources of the Fifty Mile Mountain Wilderness Study Area, Kane County, Utah U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1747-A Chapter A Mineral Resources of the Fifty Mile Mountain Wilderness Study Area, Kane County, Utah By SUSAN BARTSCH-WINKLER, HARLAN N. BARTON, JOHN W. CADY, AND KENNETH L COOK U.S. Geological Survey CLAYM. MARTIN U.S. Bureau of Mines U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1747 MINERAL RESOURCES OF WILDERNESS STUDY AREAS- ESCALANTE CANYON 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 Any use of trade names in this report is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Geological Survey or U.S. Bureau of Mines. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mineral resources of the Fifty Mile Mountain Wilderness Study Area, Kane County, Utah. (Mineral resources of wilderness study areas Escalante Canyon region, Utah : ch. A) Bibliography: p. Supt. of Docs, no.: f 19.3:1747-A 1. Mines and mineral resources Utah Fifty Mile Mountain Wilderness. 2. Fifty Mile Mountain Wilderness (Utah). I. Bartsch-Winkler, S. II. Series: U.S. Geological Survey bulletin ;1747-A. QE75.B9 no. 1747-A 557.3 S [553'.09792'51] 88-600285 [TN24.U8] 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 Fifty Mile Mountain (UT-040-080) Wilderness Study Area, Kane County, Utah. CONTENTS Abstract Al Summary Al Introduction A4 Investigations by the U.S. Bureau of Mines A4 Investigations by the U.S. Geological Survey A4 Appraisal of identified resources AS Mining and leasing activity A5 Appraisal of sites examined A7 Coal A7 Uranium A7 Titanium A8 Other commodities A8 Assessment of potential for undiscovered resources A8 Previous work A8 Geologic setting and description of rock units A8 Geochemistry A10 Analytical methods A10 Results of analyses A10 Geophysical studies A10 Aeroradiometric survey All Aeromagnetic survey and regional gravity survey All Mineral and energy resources A15 Coal A15 Uranium A16 Oil and gas A16 Carbon dioxide A17 Titanium A17 Gypsum A18 Other metals A18 Geothermal resources A18 References cited A18 Appendix A21 PLATE [Plate is in pocket] 1. Map showing mineral resource potential and generalized bedrock geology of the Fifty Mile Mountain Wilderness Study Area FIGURES 1-5. Maps of the Fifty Mile Mountain Wilderness Study Area and vicinity: 1. Mineral resource potential and location A2 2. Leases and claim blocks A6 3. Complete Bouguer gravity anomaly A12 4. Residual total aeromagnetic field A13 5. Important structural features A14 Contents MINERAL RESOURCES OF WILDERNESS STUDY AREAS-ESCALANTE CANYON REGION, UTAH Mineral Resources of the Fifty Mile Mountain Wilderness Study Area, Kane County, Utah By Susan Bartsch-Winkler, Harlan N. Barton, John W. Cady, and Kenneth L Cook, 1 U.S. Geological Survey, and Clay M. Martin U.S. Bureau of Mines ABSTRACT west of the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and about midway between the towns of Escalante, Utah, and Page, The Fifty Mile Mountain Wilderness Study Area Ariz. Paved access to the area is by U.S. Highway 89 through (UT-040-080) is in south-central Utah in Kane County near Glen Canyon City and Utah State Highway 12 through the border with Arizona. No economic or marginally Escalante; numerous unpaved roads provide closer access economic resources were identified in the study area. There to the area by use of four-wheel-drive vehicles. These include are, however, inferred subeconomic resources of sandstone the Fiftymile Bench road and the Croton Canyon road, main and sand and gravel. All or part of four lode and one placer access roads from which numerous jeep trails diverge. Foot claim blocks have been staked within the study area. All are access to the area is gained by use of stock trails. located for either uranium or titanium. The mineral resource potential for undiscovered coal and titanium resources is Fifty Mile Mountain Wilderness Study Area is underlain high, except in the southwesternmost part of the study area, primarily by sedimentary rock units that are continuous and which has no potential for either commodity. The mineral very gently warped into broad north-south-trending folds resource potential for undiscovered uranium is high in the (Hackman and Wyant, 1973). Paleozoic (see geologic time north-central part and southeastern tip of the study area and chart in Appendix) rocks in this area are dominantly marine moderate elsewhere. The potential for undiscovered geother- shelf sediments, and the Mesozoic sequences are primarily mal, oil, gas, gypsum, and carbon dioxide resources is continental sediments of fluvial, eolian, and alluvial origin. All moderate. The potential for undiscovered metals, excluding of the units are covered, in places, by younger, relatively thin, uranium and titanium, is low. surficial talus, terrace, and pediment deposits. Bedrock units exposed in the Fifty Mile Mountain Wilderness Study Area SUMMARY are, from oldest to youngest, the Navajo Sandstone, the Carmel Formation, the Romana and Entrada Sandstones, The U.S Geological Survey and the U.S. Bureau of the Morrison Formation, the Dakota Sandstone, the Tropic Mines, at the request of the U.S. Bureau of Land Manage­ Shale, and the Straight Cliffs Formation. ment, investigated the Fifty Mile Mountain Wilderness Study Area (UT-040-080), which covers 92,441 acres in Kane The results reported herein are generally consistent County, Utah, near the Utah-Arizona boundary (fig. 1). This with previously published interpretations of the area's investigation was completed in September 1987. The area is geology and resource potential, and no new evidence of important mineral resources has been found. No economic or marginally economic resources were Publication approved by the Director, U.S. Geological! Survey, identified in the study area. The only known resources in the June 10, 1988. study area are inferred subeconomic resources of sand and University of Utah. gravel and sandstone; these are common in the study area, Fifty Mile Mountain Wilderness Study Area, Kane County, Utah A1 1 1 1 °00' GLEN CANYON NATIONAL RECREATION AREA APPROXIMATE BOUNDARY OF FIFTY MILE MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS STUDY AREA (UT-040-080) Glen Canyon City 10 15 20 MILES Figure 1. Mineral resource potential and location of the Fifty Mile Mountain Wilderness Study Area, Kane County, Utah. A2 Mineral Resources of Wilderness Study Areas Escalante Canyon Region, Utah EXPLANATION As part of this study, rock and stream-sediment Geologic terrane having high mineral resource potential for samples and heavy-mineral panned concentrates of stream coal beds less than 5 feet thick, and for titanium, with sediments were collected for geochemical analysis. The certainty level C Applies to all but southwesternmost results of these analyses indicate no significant geochemical (pink) part of study area anomalies within the Fifty Mile Mountain Wilderness Study Geologic terrane having high mineral resource potential for uranium in the subsurface, with certainty level B Area. Geologic terrane having moderate mineral and energy Results of geophysical studies provide new information resource potential for oil, gas, carbon dioxide, and on the configuration, depth, and lithology of the basement geothermal sources in the subsurface and for uranium rocks underlying this part of the Kaiparowits Plateau. These and thin beds of gypsum in the surface and subsurface, data provide a framework for understanding the relations with certainty level B Applies to the entire study area for all listed commodities except uranium, which has mod­ between basement and surface geology and aid in erate potential only outside the areas of high potential de­ assessing oil, gas, and carbon dioxide resources and in scribed above determining geothermal sources. L/B Geologic terrane having low mineral resource potential for The Fifty Mile Mountain Wilderness Study Area adjoins metals other than titanium and uranium, with certainty level B Applies to entire study area the Kaiparowits coal field, the largest coal resource in Utah. N/D Geologic terrane having no mineral resource potential for Coal-bearing units are present in the study area, but the coal coal or titanium, with certainty level D Applies only to is lenticular, isolated, and of limited extent. The energy southwesternmost (pink) part of study area resource potential for undiscovered coal beds in the study area less than 5 ft thick is high except in the southwest part Paved road of the study area, which has no potential for coal because the Unpaved road coal-bearing rocks are absent. Levels of certainty: The Morrison and Chinle Formations contain uranium B Data indicate geologic environment and suggest the level deposits elsewhere in the Colorado Plateau, and both of of mineral resource potential these units underlie the study area. The north-central part C Data indicate geologic environment and give a good and southeastern tip of the study area have geologic indication of the level of mineral resource potential conditions favorable for the occurrence of uranium in the D Data clearly define geologic environment and level of Morrison Formation and have a high resource potential for mineral resource potential undiscovered uranium; the rest of the study area has moderate resource potential for uranium. Favorable rock units for oil and gas are in the but currently cannot be economically produced owing to subsurface of the study area, and structures in the study area inaccessibility and distance to potential markets.
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