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MINERAL LOCALITIES
OF UTAH
by Kenneth C. Bullock
NJture di,plays her most common minenl, quartz. in this beJutiful crystal cluster.
CONTENTS
In troduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Minerals of Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Utah Minerals Listed by County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Utah Minerals Listed by Crystal Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Utah Minerals Listed by Chemical Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Utah Minerals Listed Under Selected Metallic Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Utah Minerals Listed Under Counties by Selected Metallic Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
MINERALS AND MINERAL LOCALITIES OF UTAH
by Kenl1eth C Bullock]
INTRODUCTION
Following the Bibliography is an Appendix,
There has long been widespread interest by min- including six subdivisions with alphabetical listing of
eralogists and geologists in the minerals of the State. minerals under the following headings: (a) minerals of
This interest is increasing both because of renewed the state: (b) minerals by each county: (c) crystal
activity in old mining camps and because of l'tahns and system, (d) chemical class; (e) selected metallic minerals
tourists who seek relaxation and adventure out-of-doors. of the state: (f) selected metallic minerals of each coun-
Evidence of this interest is the organization of many ty.
rock and mineral societies.
Ashbrook District (Grouse Creek Mountains). La Sal District (North Mountain, La Sal Mountains).
Box Elder District (Wasatch Mountains). Little Grand District (S.E. Green River).
Crater Island District (Crater Island). Miners Basin District (North Mountain, La Sal Moun-
Lucin District (Pilot Range). tains).
Newfoundland District (Newfoundland Mountains). Polar Mesa District (Polar Mesa).
Park Valley District (Raft River Mountains). Richardson District (Waring Creek).
Promontory District (Promontory Mountains). Thompsons District (5. E. Thompsons).
Rosebud District (Grouse Creek Mountains). Wilson Mesa (Wheeler Desert) District (Wilson Mesa).
Sierra Madre District (Wasatch Mountains). Yellow Cat District (W. part of Thompsons District).
Willard District (Wasatch Mountains).
IRON COUNTY
KANE COUNTY
EMERY COUNTY
Colorado River District (Colorado River).
Cedar Mountain District (Cedar Mountain).
Emery (Lost Springs) District (Red Plateau). MILLARD COUNTY
Green River District (S. W. Green River).
San Rafael District (San Rafael Swell). Detroit (Drum, Joy) District (Drum Mountains).
Gordon District (Pavant Mountains).
GARFIELD COUNTY Leamington (Oak City) District (Canyon Mountains),
Saw Back District (W. of Sevier Lake).
Colorado River District (Colorado River).
Coyote Creek (Antimony) District (Escalante Moun- MORGAN COUNTY
tains ).
Little Rockies District (Henry Mountains). Argenta District (Wasatch Mountains).
North Wash District (Henry Mountains). Hardscrabble (Mill Creek) District (Wasatch Mountains).
Trachyte District (Henry Mountains). Morgan District (Wasatch Mountains).
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Gold Mountain (Kimberly) District (Deer Creek, Tus- Bingham (West Mountain) District (Oquirrh Mountains).
har Mountains). Blue Bell District (Sheeprock Mountains).
Marysvale District (Marysvale Uranium Area). Columbia District (N.E. Sheeprock Mountains).
Mt. Baldy District (Cottonwood Creek, Tushar Moun- Dugway District (Dugway Range).
tains ). East Erickson District (W. Sheeprock Mountains).
Ohio District (Bullion Canyon, Tushar Mountains). Erickson (Black Crook) District (Simpson Mountains).
Free Coinage District (Stansbury Mountains).
Gold Hill (Clifton) District (Deep Creek Mountains).
Granite Mountain District (Granite Mountiain)
RICH COUNTY Grantsville (Third Term) District (Stansbury Mountains).
Greeley District (Topliff Hill).
Swan Creek (Garden City) District (Bear River Range). Lakeside District (Lakeside Mountains).
Mercur (Camp Floyd) District (Oquirrh Mountains).
SALT LAKE COUNTY North Tintic (Boulter, Caledonia, Oasis) District (Boul-
ter Mountains).
Big Cottonwood District (Wasatch Mountains). Ophir District (S. W. Oquirrh Mountains).
Bingham (West Mountain) District (Oquirrh Mountains). Osceola District (Thorpe Hills).
Hot Springs (Adams) District (Wasatch Mountains). Rush Valley (Stockton) District (W. Oquirrh Moun-
Little Cottonwood (Alta) District (Wasatch Mountains). tains).
Lower Placer District (Oquirrh Mountains). Silver Island (Silver Islet) District (Silver Island Moun-
Smelter District (Oquirrh Mountains). tains ).
Tooele District (W. Oquirrh Mountains).
Willow Springs District (Deep Creek Mountains).
Big Indian District (Big Indian Wash· Lisbon Valley Brush Creek District (Uinta Mountains).
Area). Carbonate District (Uinta Mountains).
Cottonwood Canyon District (N. of Bluff). Green River District (Cub Creek).
Monticello (Blue Mountain) District (Abajo Mountains). Uteland Knoll District (Ouray).
Monument Valley (Monumental) District (Monument
Valley). UTAH COUNTY
Paradox Valley District (Paradox Valley).
Red Canyon District (Red Canyon). Alpine District (Wasatch Mountains).
White Canyon District (White Canyon). American Fork District (Wasatch Mountains).
East Tintic District (East Tintic Mountains).
Lehi District (Lake Mountain).
SANPETE COUNTY North Tintic (Caledonia, Oasis) District (East Tintic
Mountains).
No Organized Mining Districts. Payson District (Wasatch Mountains).
Provo District (Wasatch Mountains).
SEVIER COUNTY Santaquin District (Wasatch Mountains).
Silver Lake District (Wasatch Mountains).
Henry District (Antelope Range). Spanish Fork District (Wasatch Mountains).
Salina Creek District (Salina Creek). Utah District (Long Ridge).
WASHINGTON COUNTY
WEBER COUNTY
Bull Valley District (Bull Valley).
Santa Clara District (Santa Clara). Fremont Island District (Fremont Island).
Silver Reef (Harrisburg) District (Leeds). Sierra Madre District (Wasatch Mountains).
Tutsagubet District (Beaver Dam Mountains). Weber (Junction) District (Wasatch Mountains).
CHAPTER II
BLUE V ALLEY - black agate with blue bands. Sunrise property - thorium, rare earths.
Ward group - epidote, garnet, idocrase, scheelite.
BRADSHAW DISTRICT (Mineral Range) - amethyst,
clinozoisite, tourmaline. tremolite, wollastonite. INDIAN PEAK DISTRICT (Needle Range) - argentite,
cerussite, fluorite. galena.
Cave mine - anglesite, aragonite, argentite, aurichalcite, Big Pinto Spring - alunite.
cerussite. chalcopyrite, cuprite, galena, gold, limonite, Blue Bell, Cougar Spar, Dugout, JB, Nooday, Lost
magnetite, malachite, pyrite, sphalerite. sulfur. Sheep, Utah mines - calcite, fluorite, quartz.
Hecla mine - argentite, chalcopyrite. galena, gold, py- Steelville, Spor properties - pyrolusite.
rite.
Jolly Boy mine - gold. limonite. LINCOLN DISTRICT (Mineral Range).
Nip and Tuck mine - argentite, chalcopyrite, galena, Creole mine - amethyst, angle site , azurite, bornite,
gold, pyrite. calcite, cerussite, chalcopyrite, chrysocolla, clinozoisite,
2 R 's group - epidote, fluorite, garnet, idocrase, mala- copper pitch, epidote, fluorite. galena, garnet, hema-
chite, scheelite, serpentine. tite, idocrase, limonite, magnetite, malachite, opal, py-
rite, quartz. tourmaline, tremolite, scheelite, wollaston-
ENGLISH SPRING (Wah Wah Mountains) - hematite, ite.
limonite. Rattler Iron claim - limonite, magnetite.
Lin co III (Rawlins) mine - anglesite, argentite, chalcopy-
FORTUNA DISTRICT (Tushar Mountains). rite, chrysocolla. galena, hematite, limonite, magnetite,
Rocky Hollow - gold, limonite, pyrite. malachite, pyrite, smithsonite, sphalerite.
FRISCO DISTRICT (See SAN FRANCISCO DISTRICT) MCGARRY DISTRICT (Mineral Range) - barite, calcite.
galena, magnetite, malachite.
GORDON DISTRICT.
Sulphurdale - epsomite, marcasite, pyrite, sulfur. MILFORD (near) - opal
Cactlls Glllch - chalcopyrite, garnet, limonite, quartz, SOUTHERN SAN FRANCISCO MOUNTAINS
rutile, tourmaline. Brimstone Mound - opal, sulfur.
Copper Gulch - garnet. tourmaline. White Mountain - autunite, carnotite.
Gold Reef mine - barite, cerussite, galena, gold, pyrite.
Indiall Queell mine - galena. ST AR and NORTH S1 AR DISTRICTS (Star Range) -
aurichalcite, bismutite, cerargyrite, molybdenite, scoro-
ROCK CORRAL (E. of) - albite, orthoclase, prase, dite, rhodochrosite, saponite.
smoky quartz. A lIas mine - libethenite.
Brown Thrush, Cabin, Fluorine Ledge, Lucky Boy
ROCKY DISTRICT (Rocky Range). nos. 1-2, Manassa, Monte Cristo, Quartzite, North
Adelia mille - magnetite, wulfenite. Virginia Extension, Virginia nos. 1-5 claims - fluorite,
Bawana mine· azurite. bornite. chalcopyrite, diopside, quartz.
garnet, kinoite. magnetite. malachite, stringhamite,
tenorite, thaumasite. Cedar-Talisman, Hoosier Boy Mines - anglesite, azurite,
Copper Ranch mine - azurite, garnet, magnetite, mala- calamine, cerussite, galena, malachite, smithsonite,
chite, muscovite, scheelite. troostite, willemite.
Little Rocky prospect - huntite. Commonwealth, Kemple, Progressive, St. Mary's mines -
Maria mille - azurite, bornite, chalcopyrite, magnetite, azurite, bismuthinite. bismutite, calcite, cerussite,
malachite. chalcopyrite, garnet. limonite, malachite, pyrite.
Old Hickory mine - apatite, bornite, chalcopyrite, Copper King mille - azurite, garnet, magnetite, mala-
diopside, garnet, magnetite, magnesite, pyrite, scheelite, chite, scheelite.
thaumasite. Dotson mine - azurite, cerussite, galena, malachite.
Sill'er Shield Milling and Milling Company mine - mag- Emerson mine - aurichalcite, cerussite, hemimorphite.
nesite. Estelle mine - anglesite. cerussite.
Estelle. Mowitza. f'icksburg mines - anglesite, cerussite,
SAN FRANCISCO (FRISCO) DISTRICT (San Francisco galena.
Mountains) - apatite, augite, biotite, chlorite, chrysolite, Gold Crown mine - anglesite, cerussite, malachite,
goethite, hornblende, ilmenite, magnesite, manganite, smithsonite.
pyrolusite. quartz, rare earths, rhodochrosite, rutile, Harrington-Hickory. Rebel. White Rock mines - angle-
thorium mineralization. titanite, zircon. site, azurite, cerussite, chalcopyrite, corkite, galena,
Beaver Carhonate mine - chalcopyrite, galena, pyrite, limonite, malachite, pyrite, silver, sphalerite, tetrahe-
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NORTH SHORE OF GREAT SALT LAKE asphalt, Moon claim - gold, hematite, smithsonite.
pyrite in shale and slate. PiR Hole Hollow - pyrolusite.
Tip Top claim - cerussite, galena, silver, smithsonite.
PARK V ALLEY DISTRICT (Raft River Mountains).
Cellrur]", Susallnah milles - arsenopyrite, chalcopyrite, LA PLATA AREA (Davenport Creek).
galena, gold, monazite, pyrite, sphalerite. La Plata, Sunrise claims - galena.
Sundmvn claim - malachite.
Yellow lacket claim - cerussite, silver.
PROMONTORY DISTRICT ( Promontory Mountains).
Big Pine mining properties - cerussite. LOGAN AREA (Logan Canyon) - chalcotrichite, galena.
Lake}'iew, Lead Hill, North Side, Volunteer mines -
bornite, calamine, cerussite, chalcopyrite, gold, gypsum, PARADISE DISTRICT (East Fork Little Bear River) -
limonite, malachite, pyrite, smithsonite. anglesite, azurite, cerussite, galena, malachite.
Promontory Poilll - obsidian, variscite. Mineral Point - hematite, quartz, siderite, specularite.
Sunshine mining properties - cerussite.
RICHMOND DISTRICT (Bear River Range) - galena,
ROSEBUD DISTRICT (Grouse Creek Mountains) - malachite.
barite, cerussite, chlorite, epidote, garnet, muscovite,
quartz. SMITHFIELD AREA - cerussite, kaolinite, smithsonite.
A & Hi, Magnitude mines - galena, scheelite, vanadinite,
wulfenite.
CARBON COUNTY
Mogul mine - galena, gold.
Red Buttes - chalcopyrite, gold, pyrite.
COAL (COLD) CREEK (20 mi. N. Price) - carnotite.
RED CREEK COMPLEX (Uinta Mountains) - almandite, reedmergnerite, riebeckite, searlesite, shortite, smectite,
anthophyllite, apatite, beryl, hematite, hornblende, thermonatrite. trona.
hyanite, muscovite, staurolite.
INDIAN CANYON - sepiolite, wurtzilite.
SPRING CREEK DEPOSIT - limonite, pyrolusite.
LAKE FORK - anhydrite, gypsum.
UINTA MOUNTAINS (N.E. flank) - glauconite in Cam-
brian Ladore Fm. collophane, carbonate apatite, fluora- MOON LAKE IRON DEPOSIT - hematite, red ocher.
patite, francolite, phosphorite in Permian Meade Peak
phosphate shale. MYTON (S.) - gilsonite.
LUCKY BOY AND UTAH-PIOCHE MINES - scheelite. BLACK DRAGON CANYON - sulfur.
CASTLE PEAK DISTRICT (Uinta Basin) - gilsonite. CEDAR MOUNTAIN DISTRICT (Cedar Mountain) -
agate, anhydrite, carnotite, chalcedony, jasper, gypsum,
DUCHESNE (S.W.) - albertite. pyrolusite, psilomelane, silicified bone and wood, sulfur,
tyuyamunite, uraninite, wad.
DUCHESNE IRON PROSPECT - hematite, red ocher.
EMERY (near) - brookite, cassiterite, dumortierite,
GREEN RIVER FORMATION - acmite, analcite, anhy- ilmenite, monazite, zircon in Ferron Sandstone Member
drite, bassanite, burbankite, colophane, crocidolite, of Mancos Shale.
dawnsite, eitelite, fluorapatite, hectorite, illite, leucos-
penite, loughlinite, magnesioarfvedsonite, magnesiorie- EMERY (LOST SPRINGS) DISTRICT (Red Plateau) -
beckite, nahcolite, norstrandite, northupite, pyrite, galena, gold, malachite, silver.
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FULLERS BOTTOM - anhydrite, gypsum. Calyx mine - Carnotite, cobaltomenite, coffinite, corvu-
site, ferroselite, galena, montroseite, pascoite, pitch-
GREEN RIVER DISTRICT (10-12 mi. S. W. of town of blende, pyrite, sphalerite, thucolite.
Green River). Copper Globe deposit - anglesite, azurite, cerussite, gal-
Crabapple claim - schroeckingerite, uraninite. ena, malachite, torbernite.
Dcnise no. 1 millc - bassetite, coffinite. Delta mine - andersonite, autunite, azurite, bayleyite,
Mineral Ten claim - metatorbemite, phosphuranylite, becquerelite, beta-uranophane. boltwoodite, bravoite,
torbernite. brochantite, carnotite, covellite, fourmarierite, galena,
Sodaroll claim - zippeite. gummite, gypsum, hematite, illite, johannite, kaolinite,
Ventura claims - torbernite, uraninite. malachite, meta-autunite, metatorbernite, metatyuya-
Yellow Queell claims - carnotite, torbernite, uraninite. munite, metazeunerite, phosphuranylite, pyrite, ruther-
fordine, schoepite, schroeckingerite, torbernite, tyuya-
GREEN RIVER. munite, uraninite, uranophane, vandendriesscheite,
18 mi. W. of toWIl of Green River - carnotite, tyuyam- volborthite, zeunerite, zippeite.
unite. Dirty Devil mines - coffinite, galena, marcasite, metator-
30 mi. S. W - agate, chalcedony, fibroferrite, jasper, bernite, sphaerite, torbernite.
silicified bone and wood. Flat Top Mesa - carnotite, chrome mica-clay, gypsum,
50 mi. S. - carnotite, celestite. hewettite, metatorbernite, rauvite, torbernite, uvanite.
S. Y. Guthrie KroUJI - carnotite, vanoxite. COURTHOUSE WASH - barite, calcite. limonite, pyrolu-
VCA. deposits - carnotite. site.
OAK CREEK PROSPECT (17 mi. N.F. Boulder) - CRESCENT JUNCTION - carnallite, sylvite.
pitchblende. torbernite.
FISHER VALLEY - anhydrite, gypsum.
PANGUITCH (NW.) - pyrolusite.
GREEN RIVER - chromite in placers.
SPOTTED DOG CLAIM - torbernite.
GREEN RIVER CROSSING (D. and R.G. Railroad) -
TABLE CLIFF PLATEAU. aluminite.
Fullmer prospect - pyrolusite.
GYPSUM HILLS - anhydrite, gypsum.
TRACHYTE DISTRICT (Henry Mountains).
Blitz 1I0S. ]-7. JUlle Bell nos. ]-4, Minnie Pearl nos. ]-2, HARLEY DOME - carbon dioxide, helium.
StraiKht Creek, Trachyte nos. ]-2, V.C.A. claims -
carnotite. vanoxite. HOOSIER MINE (near Brendel) - azurite, bornite,
Trachyte Creek - carnotite, tyuyamunite. malachite, pyrite.
AGATE SWITCH - agate. amethyst. chalcedony, red LITTLE GRAND DISTRICT (S. E. Green River).
jasper casts of fossils. satin spar, travertine. Black Bird claim - pyrolusite.
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company mine - barite, calcite,
BALD MESA - placer gold. pyrolusite. pyrolusite.
Desert Rock (MoIlKol) claim - pyrolusite.
BEAVER MESA. Dry Lake Wash - pyrolusite.
Corl'lI'itc I/OS. ]-3 milles - carnotite, coffinite, rauvite. Duma Poill! - pyrolusite.
Needles - barite, calcite, manganite, pyrolusite, rhodo-
BLUE SPAR PROPERTY (near Colorado-Utah border)- chrosite.
fluorite. Salt Wash KTOUP - celestite, chert, manganite, pyrolusite.
Tenmile Wash - barite, calcite, psilomelane, pyrolusite.
CANE CREEK - anhydrite. carnallite, gypsum, halite, White Wash deposits - pyrolusite.
polyhalite, sylvite.
LITTLE VALLEY -limonite, pyrolusite.
CISCO (near) - agate, agatized clams, chalcedony, calcite
(onyx marble), silicified bone and wood, opalized wood. MCCARTHY WELL - anhydrite.
RICHARDSON DISTRICT (Waring Creek) - azurite, YELLOW CAT DISTRICT (W. part of Thompsons
calciovolborthite, carnotite, galena, saponite, tyuyam- District).
unite, volborthite. Eli Malichs Lucky Day claim - pitchblende.
L.A. Sutherland Sock claim - pitchblende.
RYAN CREEK SCHEELITE PROSPECT - barite, Uvanco (Yellow Jacket) mine - carnotite.
Buorite, galena, scheelite, sphalerite. Yellow Cat group - mctahewettite, schroeckingerite,
tyuyamunite.
SALT VALLEY AREA - anhydrite, azurite, carnallite,
gold, gypsum, halite, limonite, malachite, polyhalite, IRON COUNTY
psilomelane, pyrolusite, sylvite.
ANTELOPE RANGE .~.
SEGER STATION - carnotite. Black Jack (Gregory), Lucky Joe, Taylor claims - pyrol-
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DESERT MOUNT AIN DISTRICT (See DESERET KEG (MCDOWELL) MOUNTAINS - agate, labradorite,
DISTRICT). obsidian.
DETROIT (DRUM. JOY) DISTRICT (Drum Mountains) MONA DISTRICT (Long Ridge) - anhydrite, cerussite,
(See also MILLARD COUNTy) - agate, jarosite, jasper. galena, gypsum.
Black Boy group (Staats and Pratt mines) - psilomelane,
pyrolusite. rhodochrosite. MT. NEBO (TIMMONS) DISTRICT (Wasatch Moun-
Charm, Copperhead, E.P.H.. Ibex mines - azurite, tains).
bismutite, cerargyrite, chalcedony, chalcopyrite, cuprite, Ajaxto no. ;: prospect - galena, sphalerite.
galena, gold, jasper, hematite, malachite, pyrite, pyrolu- Big Nebo mine - argentite, cerussite, galen&
site. Black Ledge claims - chalcedony, pyrolusite.
Ibex mine - gold in jasperoid. Blackett Tunnel - argentite, galena.
Iron Blossom mine - goethite, limonite, psilomeland, Eva (Privateer) mine - argentite, barite, calcite, calamine,
pyrolusite, wad. cerussite, cuprite, dolomite, galena, smithsonite, sphale-
Martha mine - gold in jasperoid. rite.
Freddie Lode - argentite, barite, calamine, cerussite,
DRUM DISTRICT (See DETROIT DISTRICT). galena, smithsonite. sphalerite.
Highland mine - calcite, galena, sphalerite.
DUGWAY RANGE - beryl, bixbyite, chalcedony, Santaquin Chief mine - cerussite. galena, sphalerite.
fluorite, garnet, topaz. Santaquin King mine - cerussite, galena.
Syndicate (Bullock) Tunnel cerussite, galena.
EAST TINTIC DISTRICT (See under UTAH COUNTY).
NORTH TINTIC DISTRICT (Boulter Mountains) (See
EAST TINTIC MOUNTAINS - phosphorite in basal also under Tooele and Utah Counties).
Deseret Limestone. Tintic Prince mine - galena, jasper, pyrite.
ChickclI Crcek, Lcvall, Ncphi, Salt Creek - anhydrite, Rainbow no. 2 prospect - fluorite.
gypsum, halite. Thursday minc - calcite, fluorite.
Orll1c propcro' - calcite, opal, psilomelane, pyrolusite.
TOPAZ MOUNTAIN - almandite, beryl, bixbyite,
SPRING CREEK DISTRICT (W. side Deep Creek calcite, carnelian, carnotite, chalcedony, c1inoptilolite,
Mountains). fluorite, garnet, hematite, morganite, hyalite, pseudo-
QUCCII of Shcba millc - albite, azurite, beryl, biotite, brookite, quartz, sanidine, schroeckingerite, specularite,
galena, garnet. limonite, muscovite, orthoclase, py- spessarite, topaz, uranophane, weeksite.
romorphite, quartz, tourmaline.
TIMMONS DISTRICT (See MT. NEBO DISTRICT).
THOMAS RANGE - agate, bertrandite, beryl, chalce-
dony, c1inoptilolite, fluorite, garnet, opal, pseudobrook- TINTIC DISTRICT (East Tintic Mountains) - arsenio-
ite, quartz, specularite, topaz. siderite, arduinite, atacamite, cotunnite, pyrolusite,
Autunite no. 8 claim - calcite, fluorite, opal, quartz, tennantite, siderotil, sickerlite, spangolite, zoisite.
sanidine, weeksite. Ajax mine - borickite, chalcophyllite, enargite, mixite,
Buclla 110. 1 claim - fluorite, opal. tyrolite.
Good Will, Yellow Chicf groups - betauranophane, American Eagle mine - conichalcite, chenevixite, erinite,
fluorite, schroeckingerite, uranophane, weeksite. Beck Tunnel mine - cerussite, galena, jasper.
Black Dragon minc - galena, limonite, pyrite.
SPOR MOUNTAIN - bertrandite, c1inoptilolite, fluorite, Black Jack Empire mine - gold, limonite, silver, pyrolu-
hectorite, morganite. site, wad.
Bell Hill mine - carnotite, chalcedony, chalcopyrite, Boss Tweed mine - azurite, barite, bismite, bismuth,
fluorite, hematite, magnetite, montmorillonite, pyrite, bismutite, brochantite, calamine, cuprite, malachite,
quartz. mixite.
Blowout mille - carnotite, fluorite, montmorillonite, Brookzvn mine - crandallite.
quartz. Bullioll Beck mille - anglesite, aurichaJcite, azurite,
Blue Queen pros/'cct - fluorite. calamine, cerargyrite, cerussite, gold, galena, marcasite,
Clavhank, Bluc Chalk. F7uro. Hogsback, Norrhelld, pearceite, silver, smithsonite, sphalerite.
Raillbow, Roadside claims, Tams bertrandite, calcite, Carissa mine - aurichaJcite, azurite, barite, bismuth,
chalcedony, c1inoptilolite, fluorite, gel-bertrandite, bismutite, brochantite. calcite, chrysocolla, conichalcite,
montmorillonite. copper, cuprite, enargite, garnet, lettsomite, malachite,
DcllllO. 1 millc - fluorite, quartz. mixite, olivenite, pitticite, scorodite, utahite.
Dell no. 5 mine - carnotite, fluorite, montmorillonite, Centenllial Eureka mille - azurite, barite, cerargyrite,
quartz. chalcocite, chalcopyrite, conichalcite, copper, cornwal-
tagle Rock prospect - calcite, carnotite, fluorite, mala- lite, cuprite, enargite, erinite, galena, gold, malachite,
chite, montmorillonite. metazeunerite. silver, zeunerite.
EJlenillg Star prospect - fluorite, sanidine, quartz. Chief Consolidated mine - cerargyrite, cerussite, enargite,
Flonde minc - carnotite, fluorite, hematite, limonite. galena, huntite on 1800 level, jasper, proustite, pyrargy-
Floridc 110. 5 mille - fluorite, montmorillonite. rite, pyrite, silver, smithsonite, sphalerite.
Fluorillc Quecn minc - carnotite, chalcedony, fluorite, Colorado mine - calamine, cerussite, galena, geocronite,
montmorillonite, pyrolusite. smithsonite, sphalerite.
Fluorine Queen no. 4 prospect - carnotite, fluorite, Dragon mine - chrysocoJla, galena, halloysite, limonite.
montmorillonite. Eagle and Blue Bell mine - anglesite, bismite, bismutite,
Grccll Crystal mille - chalcedony, fluorite. bismoclite, cerargyrite, cerussite, daubreeite, enargite,
Harrisite mine - calcite, carnotite, fluorite, montmoril- galena, jarosite, jasper, smithsonite.
lonite. Emerald mine - bismuth, calcite, hematite, limonite,
Hilltop min£' - carnotite, fluorite, quartz. psi1omelane, wad.
Lost Shecp mine - carnotite, chalcedony, fluorite, Eureka Hill mille - anglesite, barite, brochantite, car-
quartz. phosiderite, cerussite, enargite, galena, gold, leadhillite,
Lost Soul prospect - fluorite. minetite, phosgenite, pyromorphite, sphalerite.
Lucky Louie millc - carnotite, chalcedony, fluorite. Gemini mille - anglesite, aurichaJcite, azurite, calamine,
NOllclla prospect - fluorite, opal, quartz. cerargyrite, cerussite, galena, heulandite, hydrozincite,
Ovcrsigh t millc - calcite, fluorite, quartz. jasper, malachite, marasite. pearceite, silver, smithsonite.
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TROUT CREEK (JOHNSON PEAK) DISTRICT (E. side KAIBAB FAULT - (W. side) - allophane, ammoniojaro-
Deep Creek Mountains) - fluorite, gold, pyrrhotite, site, ammonia alum.
sphalerite.
Apex mine - beryl, quartz, scheelite. KAIPAROWITS PLATEAU (S. part) - ilmenite, mona-
Bacon mine - andalusite, scheelite. zite, zircon.
Trout Creek mille - scheelite. Croten Canyon - monazite in Straight Cliffs Sandstone.
Rees Canyon monazite in Straight Cliffs Sandstone.
WEST TINTIC DISTRICT (West Tintic Mountains) - Sunday Canyon - monazite in Straight Cliffs Sandstone.
arsenopyrite, bismuthinite, enstatite, galena, idocrase,
magnetite, molybdenite, pyrite, scheelite, sphene, talc, KANAB (near) - silicified wood.
trem oli te, wollastonite.
88 mine - anglesite, barite, cerussite, chrysocolla, fluo- KANAB CREEK - anhydrite, gypsum.
Minerals and Mineral Localities of Utah, Kenneth C. Bullock 21
ANTELOPE SPRINGS - limonite, pyrite, altered to JOY DISTRICT (See DETROIT DISTRICT).
limonite.
KANOSH (near) - anhydrite, gypsite, gypsum.
BLACK ROCK (5 mi. N.) - red and black obsidian;
flowering or snowflake obsidian. LEAMINGTON (OAK CITY) DISTRICT (Canyon
Range).
CLEAR LAKE RAILROAD STATION - straw yellow Arbroath mine - anglesite, cerussite, galena.
labradorite in weathered andesite. Fool Creek Canyon - azurite, limonite, malachite.
Leamillgton Mining Company - anglesite, cerussite,
CRICKET MOUNTAINS - dolomite, hematite in fer- galena.
ruginous quartzite member of Prospect Mountain Wood Canyon - galena, sphalerite.
Quartzite. YellOlVstone mine - anglesite, aragonite, cerussite, galena,
gold.
DETROIT (DRUM, JOY) DISTRICT (UTTLE DRUM
MOUNTAINS) (See also Juab County). OAK CITY DISTRICT (See LEAMINGTON DISTRICT)
Almond. Bille Bell, Major Drum mines - azurite, bismu-
tite, cuprite, chalcedony, chalcopyrite, malachite, pyrite, SAW BACK DISTRICT (W. of Sevier Lake) - chalcopy-
pyrolusite, rhodochrosite, wad. rite, galena, garnet, molybdenite.
Black Diamond, GIIY (Black Jack), Last Chance, Martha,
Silica PIUK mines - jasper, manganite, pyrolusite, wad. SEVIER LAKE (S. end) - corundum in angular masses in
Charm mille - gold in jasperoid. alluvium.
Martha mine - gold in jasperoid.
SOUTH PAVANT RANGE
DRUM DISTRICT (See DETROIT DISTRICT). Cove Fort (N .E.) - fluorite, sulfur.
Dog Valley - chalcedony, fluorite.
FILLMORE (near) - anhydrite, gypsite, gypsum, niter.
T ABERNACLE MOUNTAIN - guano.
GORDON DISTRICT (Pavant Mountains).
Black. Philadelphia. Sulphur King mines - gypsum, TUSHAR MOUNTAINS
sulfur. Cove Fort area - clintoptilolite in tuff.
Cove Creek - gypsum, hematite, marcasite, pyrite, sulfur.
Excelsior. Mariposa. New York, Prince Albert, Queen TWIN PEAK - andesine, apatite, augite, biotite, mag-
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netite, martite.
KIMBERLY DISTRICT (See GOLD MOUNTAIN
Black Diall/ond lroll prospect - hematite, magnetite,
DISTRICT)
martite.
MOUNT BALDY DISTRICT (Cottonwood Creek, Lakeview claims - calcite, jasper, pyrolusite, rhodochro-
Tushar Mountains). site.
Aetlla (Edlla) mille - alunite.
Bradhurn, Close ill, Milleral Products, L allLl N, SlIllSlzille CRAWFORD MOUNTAINS - phosphorite, tyuyamunite.
mille's - alunite.
Christmas mille - alunite. GARDEN CITY DISTRICT (See SWAN CREEK DIS-
ClyJe mille - chalcopyrite, malachite, pyrite, sphalerite, TRICT).
tetrahedritc, wurtzite.
Crl'stal mille - alunite, galena. LAKETOWN CANYON - phosphorite.
Deer Trail mille - anatase, anglesite, cerussite, fluorite,
galena. gold, jarosite, limonite, leuchtenbergite, mala- SWAN CREEK (GARDEN CITY) DISTRICT (Bear
chite. manganocalcite, octal1Cdrite, pitchblende, plumbo- River Range).
jarosite, pyrite, pyrolusite. quartz, specularite, sphale- Victoria prospect - azurite, barite, cerussite, galena,
rite. zircon. tennantite, wulfenite.
Greell 1-.)'£'d JI!ollster mille -limonite, pyrite.
Luck!' Bo.l' mille - barite, cinnabar, onofrite, tellurium WOODRUFF CREEK - phosphorite.
mineralization, tiemannite.
Pluto mill£' - argentite. cerargyrite, cerussite, galena, SALT LAKE COUNTY
gold, tellurium mineralization, wulfenite.
ADAMS DISTRICT (See HOT SPRINGS DISTRICT).
MOUNT BELKNAP - pyrolusite.
ALTA DISTRICT (See LITTLE COTTONWOOD
OHlO DISTRICT (Bullion Canyon, Tushar Mountains). DISTRICT).
Bul~l' Boy alld Webster mines - azurite, barite, cerussite,
chalcopyrite, fluorite, galena, gold. hydrozincite, limon- ALTA STOCK - allanite, bornite, brucite, calcite, chal-
ite, pyrite. pyrolusite, quartz. selenium mineralization, copyrite, diopside, forsterite, gamet, hypersthene, Iud-
sphalerite, sylvanite, tetral1Cdrite. wulfenite. wigite, magnetite, pyrite, tremolite in contact zone.
Cascade mille - azurite, cerussite, chalcopyrite, galena,
gold. malachite, pyrite, tetrahedrite, sphalerite. ALUM POINT - apjohnite, bushmanite, pickeringite.
Copper Belt, iris. Shamrock milles - azurite. cerussite,
chalcopyrite. galena, malachite, pyrite, tetrahedritc. BIG COTTONWOOD CANYON (near mouth) - large
Daltoll mille - azurite. cerussite, gold. malachite. pyrite. orthoclase crystals.
rhodochrosite, tellurium mineralization. tetralledrite.
Gilbert claims - pyrolusite. BIG COTTONWOOD DISTRICT (Wasatch Mountains) -
Great Western mine - chalcopyrite. fluorite, galena, actinolite. andradite, anglesite, asbestos, barite, duf-
pyrite. sphalerite, tetralledrite. renoysite, orthoclase.
Pille Glilch Creek - placer gold. Alta Tunllel and Transportatioll Company mille - cerus-
Shamrock mille - chalcopyrite, fluorite, galena, sphale- site, galena, malachite, smithsonite.
rite. tetralledrite. A mericall Metals mille - galena, pyrite, quartz, sphalerite.
Tlllllle! L>ctension No. J mille - bismuthinite. cassiterite, Big Cottollwood mine - bornite, brucite, chalcopyrite,
chalcocite. ch alcopyri te. covellite. cuprobismu tite, ephesite, forsterite, galena, hydromagnesite, magnesio-
emplectite, gold, tetradymite. tetrahedrite. ludwigite, magnetite. malachite, periclase, pyrite, susse-
Wedge lIlille - adularia, azurite, gold, malachite. site, xanthophyllite.
Carbonate mine - argentite, aurichalcite, cerussite,
SEVIER CANYON - alunite, anhydrite, gypsum. limon- galena, limonite, malachite, pyrolusite, smithsonite.
ite. Cardzfj mille - cerussite, covellite, enargite, galena,
limonite, malachite, plumbojarosite, pyrite, pyrolusite,
TUSHAR RANGE. rhodochrosite, smithsonite, sphalerite, tetrahedrite.
Dilloll mille - rhodochrosite. Columbus Rexallminc - bornite, chalcopyrite, enargite,
galena, pyrite, siderite, tetrahedrite.
RICH COUNTY COlljidence mille - anorthite.
Copper King mille - cuprite, molybdenite.
BEAR RIVER RANGE. Eclipse mine - azurite, angJesite, cerussite, galena,
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Fircj71'·Piglllay mille - carnotite, c1austhalite, coffinite, West Cliff HOllse 110. 8 mine - carnotite, pascoite,
corvusite, galena, montroseite, pyrite, roscoelite, ten- roscoeli te.
nantite, tyuyamunite, uraninite.
Grey Dawl/ mille . ( see PARADOX VALLEY DIS- MONTICELLO (BLUE MOUNTAIN) DISTRICT (Abajo
TRlCT). Mountains) - anhydrite, carnotite, gypsum.
Hesperus mille . carnotite, corvusite, roscoelite, schroe- Alma mille - pyrite.
kingerite, tyuyamunite. Blue Bird, Danish Girl, Gold Queen mines - chalcopyrite,
Jackpot mille . azurite, carnotite, malachite, tyuya· galena, gold, pyrite, sphalerite.
munite. Brushy Basin. Sprillg Creek - metarossite.
Lirrle Dali'l/ mille - carnotite, metatyuyamunite, roscoe· Copper Queen mille - azurite, bornite, chalcocite,
lite. chalcopyrite, chrysocolla, covellite, malachite, pyrite.
Liffle Peter mine - carnotite, corvusite, montroseite, Dream mille . chalcopyrite, galena, gold, limonite,
pascoite, roscoelite, tyuyamunite, uraninite. pyrite, sphalerite.
Lucky no. 1 mille· carnotite, roscoelite, tyuyamunite. Duckett mille - calcite, gold, limonite, pyrite.
Marjorie Alln mille· carnotitie, roscoelite, tyuyamunite. Harts Draw, Lakes claim, Robertson Pasture, Shay
Maud mine - carnotite, roscoelite, tyuyamunite. .Mountain, Shay Road, Sunshine minillg claim properties-
Morning Star mille - carnotite, roscoelite, tyuyamunite. metatyuyamunite.
New Yellow Spot mine - carnotite, roscoelite, tyuya-
munite. Log Cabin claim· gold.
Sumner mille - carnotite, metatyuyamunite, roscoelite. Tuffy Copper mine - azurite, chalcocite, malachite,
Too High mille - carnotite, metatyuyamunite, roscoe- pyrolusite.
lite.
Uranium Girl mille· carnotite, roscoelite, tyuyamunite. MONUMENT VALLEY (MONUMENTAL DISTRICT
Valle), View mine . carnotite, corvusite, metatyuyam· (Monument Valley).
unite, montroseite, roscoelite. Holiday Mesa - uraninite.
Vanadium Queen mine - (See PARADOX VALLEY Mitten IlO. 1 mine - corvusite, navajoite, tyuyamunite,
DISTRICT). uraninite.
Vista Grande mille - carnotite, roscoelite, tyuyamunite. Oljeta mine· autunite, azurite, malachite, tyuyamunite,
Wedge mine . carnotite, metatyuyamunite, roscoelite. uraninite, uranophane.
Yellow Bird mille - carnotite, corvusite, montroseite, Skyline mine - autunite, azurite, malachite, metatorber-
pitchblende. roscoelite, tyuyamunite. nite, torbernite, tyuyamunite, uraninite, uranophane.
rip Yip mine - carnotite, roscoelite, tyuyamunite. Whirlwind mille - azurite, chalcocite, calciovolborthite,
malachite, tyuyamunite, uranophane.
LISBON VALLEY· tyuyamunite.
Climax IlOS. 1-2 claims· azurite, carnotite, cuprite, MONUMENT AL DISTRICT (See MONUMENT V AL-
malachite. LEY DISTRICT).
Lisbon Coppermine . azurite, cuprite, malachite.
MORRISON FORMATION - volkonskoite.
MOAB VALLEY - anhydrite, carnallite, gypsum, halite,
polyhalite, sylvite. MOSES ROCK· chlorite, corundum, grossularite garnet,
kornerupine, pyrope garnet, rutile, spinel in dike rock.
MONTEZUMA CANYON· carnotite.
Bradford no. 5 mine· carnotite. MULE EAR· pyrope in alluvium.
COffollwood mille - carnotite.
Dixie no. 1 mine - carnotite, roscoelite. NAVAJO RESERVATION - carnotite, pyrope.
Last Chalice no. 1 mine - carnotite.
1>lIcky Boy mille - carnotite, roscoelite. PARADOX BASIN· anhydrite, gypsum.
Rim Rock mille - carnotite.
Rock mine· carnotite, roscoelite. PARADOX VALLEY DISTRICT (Paradox ValJey) -
Slum mine - carnotite. carnallite, kieserite, sylvite.
Stralt'berry mille· carnotite, roscoelite. Grey Dawll mille - azurite, beta-uranophane, beta-
Titlls IlO. 3 mille - carnotite. uranotil, carnotite, chalcocite, chalcopyrite, coffinite,
Verdure mille - carnotite, roscoelite. corvusite, covellite, eucairite, galena, gummite, hewet-
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tite, malachite, melanovanadate, metahewettite, meta- Hideout mine (Deer Flats) - azurite, bayleyite, becquere-
torbernite, metatyuyamunite, montroseite, novacekite, lite, bornite, brochantite, carnotite, chalcocite, chal-
phosphuranylite, pitchblende, pyrite, roscoelite, sale- copyrite, covellite, johannite, malachite, phosphurany-
eite, sphalerite, torbernite, uraninite, uranophane, lite, pitchblende, schoepite, schroeckingerite, torbernite,
uranospathite. uraninite, uranophane, zippeite.
Vanadium Queen mille - carnotite, coffinite, corvusite, Jomac mine - azurite, chalcanthite, chalcocite, chal-
hewettite, melanovanadate, montroseite, nolanite, copyrite, coconinoite, hematite, jarosite, malachite,
paramontroseite, pitchblende, pyrite, roscoelite, sele- metazeunerite, pyrite.
nium, simplotite, tyuyamunite, uraninite. Notch mine· uraninite.
Posey mine - antlerite, azurite, becquerelite, brochantite,
PETE NO.6 CLAIM - boltwoodite. chalcoci te, cuprosklodowski te, malachi te, me ta-au tuni te,
metatorbernite, phosphuranylite.
PINTADO CANYON - pintadoite. White Canyon no. 1 mille - bornite, carnotite, chalcopy-
rite, copper, covellite, marcasite, metatorbernite, pyrite,
RED CANYON DISTRICT (Red Canyon) carnotite, uraninite, uranophane, voglite.
chalcocite, covellite, malachite. White Fawn, Yellow Circle claims - carnotite.
Frey no. 4 mine - becquerelite, cuprosklodowskite, WN. mine (Deer Flats) - alunite, boothite, bornite,
johannite, jordisite, ilsemannite, schoepite, uraninite. chalcanthite, chalcocite, chalcopyrite, covellite, meta-
.Ierry group - boltwoodite. torbernite, metazeunerite, pyrite, torbernite, uraninite,
lHarkey flO. 3 mine - alunite, chalcanthite, chalcopyrite, zippeite.
metatorbernite, metazuenerite, pyrite, torbernite, uran-
inite. SANPETE COUNTY
Posey mine - becquerelite, brochanite, cuprosklodow-
skite, johannite, phosphuranylite, pitchblende, schoe- DRY CANYON (N. ot) - galena, marcasite, pyrite,
pite, torbernite, uraninite, uranophane, zippeite. sphalerite, strontianite.
SAN JUAN RIVER - anhydrite, chalcopyrite, copper, EPHRAIM (near) - limonite pseudomorphs after pyrite.
gold, gypsum, malachite.
FAIRVIEW (near) - beidellite.
Montezuma Canyon west to Colorado River - placer
gold. GUNNISON (S.E.) - anhydrite, gypsum, halite.
Wabash property - chalcopyrite, gyp~um, pyrite. DEEP CREEK MOUNTAINS - agate, andalusite, cerus-
site, chalcedony, galena.
SILVER CREEK DISTRICT (See MARBLE DISTRICT) Bonanza mine - arsenopyrite, scorodite.
Complex prospect - azurite, malachite, scheelite.
UINTA DISTRICT (See PARK CITY DISTRICT). Congar Hill mille - cinnabar, metacinnabar, pyrite,
sphalerite, stibiconite, senarmontite, valentinite, stibnite.
TOOELE COUNTY Cyclone and Leap Year mine - aikenite, arsenopyrite,
galena, chalcopyrite, chalcanthite, sphalerite.
AMATRICE HILL - chalcedony, crandallite, jasper,
millisite, variscite, wardite. Devils Pit, Oro del Rey, and Eagles Nest mines - azurite,
chalcocite, chalcopyrite, galena, gold, specularite,
BINGHAt\1 (WEST MOUNTAIN) DISTRICT (Oquirrh sphalerite" malacite, plumbojarosite.
Mountains). (See also under Salt Lake County). Dewey mine - azurite, jarosite, malachite, pyrolusite,
Carr Fork mine - bornite, chalcopyrite, galena, garnet, tetrahedrite.
hematite, magnetite, molybdenite, pyrite, pyrrhotite, Fortulla prospect - conichalcite, malachite, pyrolusite.
sphalerite. lroll Blossom prospect - hematite, limonite.
May Flower mine - boulangerite, galena, pyrite, sphale- l.aura prospect - azurite, chalcopyrite, malachite.
rite. Midas mille - arsenopyrite, chalcopyrite, garnet, pyrite,
spadaite, vesuvianite.
BLACK CROOK DISTRICT (See ERICKSON DIS- Midlalld mine - arsenopyrite, galena, gold, jarosite,
TRICT. plumbojarosite.
Monocco mine - azurite, chalcopyrite, chrysocolla,
BLUE BELL DISTRICT (Sheeprock Mountains). galena, malachite, plumbojarosite.
Bennion Callyon mine - galena, pyrite, quartz, sphalerite. Monte del Rey mine - arsenopyrite, chalcopyrite, galena.
Black Hawk mine - cerussite, galena, silver. North Pass prospects galena, jarosite, malachite, siderite,
Bogan mine - bismuthinite, galena, hematite, limonite, tetrahedrite.
pyrolusite. O.·erlalld alld Gold Star prospects - azurite, galena,
Hidden Splendor mine -galena. malachite, sphalerite.
Little Valley mine - pyrite. Probert mine - barite, cinnabar, conichalcite, malachite,
Morgan mille - barite, cerussite, galena, pyrite, pyrolu- scheelite, stibnite.
site. Prosperity prospect - azurite, malachite, tenorite.
The Iron mille - halloysite, hematite, jasper, limonite. Silver Queen prospect - azurite, galena, jarosite, mala-
chite, pyrite.
BOULTER DISTRICT (See NORTH TINTIC DIS- Willow Springs prospects - galena, tetrahedrite.
TRICT).
DEEP CREEK VALLEY - natron.
CALEDONIA DISTRICT (See NORTH TINTIC DIS-
TRICT). DUGWAY DISTRICT (Dugway Range) agate, amethyst,
apatite, beryl, bixbyite, chalcedony, garnet, rosasite,
CAMP FLOYD DISTRICT (See MERCUR DISTRICT). topaz.
Belcher claim - azurite, chrysocoIla, malachite, mela-
CEDAR MOUNTAINS - calcite (onyx marble). conite, tenorite.
Bertha claim - cerussite, chalcanthite, chalcocite, chal-
CLIFTON DISTRICT (See GOLD HILL DISTRICT). copyrite, chlorite, covellite, galena, gypsum, hematite,
hydromica, hemimorphite, limonite, pyrite, smithsonite,
COLUMBIA DISTRICT (N.E. Sheep rock Mountains). sphalerite, tennantite, tetrahedrite.
Bellmore, Sharp milles - cerussite, fluorite, galena, Black Dragon claim - chrysocolla, cuprite, hematite,
limonite, pyrite, pyrolusite, quartz, sphalerite, silver, limonite, malachite.
wad. Black Maria claim - azurite, chrysocolla, fluorite, mala-
Iron Hope prospect - quartz, specularite. chite.
Iron King mine - specular hematite. Boston claim - cerussite, siderite, wulfenite.
Sultana mine - galena, gold, limonite, pyrite, quartz, Bryan claim - anglesite, calcite, cerussite, chlorite, chry-
silver. socoIla, fluorite, galena, hematite, hemimorphite,
Minerals and Mineral Localities of Utah, Kenneth C. BulioL'k 31
GREAT SALT LAKE (shores) - aragonite, bloedite, DRY CANYON AREA - apatite, barite, brochantite,
blauberite, gypsum, halite, mirabilite, thenardite. calcite, chalcotrichite, chrysocolla, gold, quartz.
Brook~yn mine - azurite, cerussite, malachite, silver,
GREAT SALT FLATS - halite, sylvite. smithsonite.
Dcsere t mine - paligorski te.
GREELEY DISTRICT (Topliff Hill) - cerussite, mala- Kearsarge mine - aurichalcite, azurite, covellite, chal-
chite. pyrite. copyrite, galena, hesite, jarosite, limonite, malachite,
plumbojarosite, smithsonite.
IBAPAH MOUNTAINS - barite, beryl (aquamarine varie- Mono minc - azurite, cerargyrite, cerussite, chalcopyrite,
ty), cinnabar. copper, galena, jarosite, limonite, malachite, pyrite, sil-
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LION HILL AREA - pyrolusite, sericite, stibiconite, OSCEOLA DISTRICT (Thorpe Hills) - cerussite, galena,
utahite. pyrite.
Buffalo mine - argentojarosite, aurichalcite, barite, cer-
ussite, cerargyrite, chalcopyrite, fluorite, galena, gold, OVERLAcll.JD CANYON - bismuthinite.
jarosite, jasper, limonite, malachite, pyrite, plumbojaro-
site, wad. PINE CANYON - vesuviaIlite.
Chloride Point - argentojarosite, aurichalcite, barite,
cerussite, cerargyrite, jasper, jarosite, limonite, mala- RUSH VALLEY (STOCKTON) DISTRICT (Oquirrh
chite, plumbojarosite, pyrite, smithsonite, stibiconite, Mountains) - iddingsite, natrolite, phillipsite.
stibnite. Argent mine . cerussite, galena, jarosite, limonite,
Douglas. Lion, Zella mines - barite, calcite, cerussite, plumbojarosite, pyrite.
cerargyrite, jasper, jarosite, plumbojarosite. Ben Harrison mine - arsenopyrite, cerussite, chalcopy-
East Side, Empire, Iron, iv/onarch, Northern Light, rite, galena, gypsum, jarosite, limonite, malachite, plum·
Woodntff mines - cerussite, cerargyrite, gold, jarosite, bojarosite, pyrite, sphalerite.
plumbojarosite, wad. Calument mine - ceruSSite, chalcopyrite, galena, jarosite,
17zree Metals mine - cerussite, cerargyrite. limonite, malachite, pyrite, sphalerite, sulfur, zoisite.
Galena King mine - cerussite, chalcopyrite, galena, jaro-
OPHIR HILL AREA - barite, tetrahedrite. site, limonite, malachite, plumbojarosite, pyrite, spha-
Admiral Dewey prospect - cerussite, galena, gypsum, lerite.
jarosite, limonite. HOllerine mine - anglesite, apophyllite, aragonite, arseno-
Chicago mine - azurite, cerussite, limonite, malachite. pyrite, aurichalcite, beudanite, cerussite, chalcopyrite,
Cliff mine - aurichalcite, azurite, andradite, cerussite, clinozoisite, diopside, epidote, t1uorite, galena, gold,
chalcopyri te, diopside, epidote, galena, garnet, jarosi te, jarosite, limonite, malachite, mimetite, nontronite,
limonite, malachite, plumbojarosite, pyrite, pyrolusite, plumbojarosite, pyrite, pyromorphite, sepiolite, serpen-
smithsonite, sphalerite, talc, tremolite. tine, smithsonite, sphalerite, tetrahedrite, wad, wol-
Hidden Treasure mine - actinolite, andradite, apatite, lastonite.
aurichalcite, azurite, beaverite, calamine, cerargyrite, Mescatine mine - cerargyrite, cerussite, galena, jarosite,
cerussite, cuprite, diopside, epidote, galena, heden- limonite, plumbojarosite, sphalerite, pyrite.
bergite, hydrozincite, limonite, malachite, plumbojaro- Muerbrook mine - anglesite, cerussite, chalcopyrite,
site, pyrite, smithsonite, sphalerite, topaz, wad, wol- galena, gypsum, jaroSite, limonite, malachite, melan-
lastonite. terite, plumbojarosite, pyrite, sphalerite.
Jim Fisk mine - argentite, cerargyrite, cerussite, pyr- Salvation-Hercules mine - cerargyrite, cerussite, chal-
argyrite, silver. copyrite, galena, jarosite, limonite, malachite, plumbo-
Ophir Hill Consolidated, Ophir Coalition (ltJontanaj jarosite, pyrite.
mines - andradite, albite, argentite, apatite, anhydrite, Settlement Canyon - analcite, actinolite, grossularite,
bismuth, calcite, chalcanthite, chalcocite, chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite, thompsonite.
chlorite, clinozoisite, dolomite, diopside, epidote, Soldier Creek - epidesmine, grossularite, hematite,
fluorite, galena, grossularite, melanterite, phlogopite, wollastonite.
psilomelane, pyrite, pyrolusite, pyrrhotite, quartz, Southport mine - cerussite, malachite.
sanidine, scheelite, sericite, siderite, sphalerite, ten- Tip Top mine - chalcopyrite, galena, pyrite, sphalerite.
nantite, titanite, tremolite, wad, wolframite, wurt-
zite, zircon. SALDURO - bischofite, carnallite, halite, kainite, kie-
Sacramento mine - argentite, aurichalcite, azurite, cala- serite, polyhalite, sylvite.
mine, cerargyrite, cerussite, chalcopyrite, cuprite, galena,
hydrozincite, limonite, malachite, plumbojarosite, py- SHEEP RIDGE (east of) - nepheline in basalts and sills.
Minerals and Mineral Localities of Utah, Kenneth C. Bullock 35
SILVER ISLAND (SILVER ISLET) DISTRICT (Silver BONANZA MINE - gilsonite, petroleum in gilsonite vein.
Island Mountains).
Carrie Mack property - azurite, barite, hindheimite, BROWNS PARK AREA - azurite, bornite, chalcocite,
cerussite, galena, jamesonite, malachite, pyrite. hematite, malachite, pyrite.
Red Creek - tyuyamunite.
SILVER ISLET DISTRICT (See SILVER ISLAND
DISTRICT). BRUSH CREEK - collophane, carbonate apatite, fluora-
patite, francolite, phosphorite, rare earths.
ST ANSBURY MOUNTAINS
Amafrice Hill - chalcedony. crandallite, jasper, millisite, BRUSH CREEK DISTRICT (Uinta Mountains).
variscite, wardite. Little Alta mine - azurite, cerargyrite, malachite, smith-
Gralltsl'ille (near) - calcite (onyx). sonite.
Mack Canyon - labradorite, olivine.
Mallning Canyon Shale - chlorite, gibbsite, kaolinite, BULLIONVILLE - azurite, malachite.
illite, pyrophyllite, rectorite.
Muskrat Canyon - labradorite, olivine. CARBONATE DISTRICT (Uinta Mountains).
North Willow Canyon - augite, biotite, labradorite. Dyer mine - azurite, bornite, chalcocite, hematite,
Salt Mountain -labradorite, olivine. malachite, pyrite.
Jessie Ewing mine, Red Creek, Willow Creek - azurite,
STOCKTON DISTRICT (See RUSH VALLEY DIS- malachite.
TRICT). Pope Iron mine - hematite.
WILLOW SPRINGS DISTRICT (Deep Creek Moun- GREEN RIVER FORMATION - abelsonite, analcite,
tains) - azurite, cerussite, galena, chalcopyrite, malachite. ankerite, barytocalcite, burbankite, calcite, dawsonite,
dolomite, elpidite, garrelsite, illite, leucosphenite,
nahcolite, neighborite, norstrandite, searlesite, shortite,
UINT AH COUNTY smectite, pyrite, wurtzite.
RAINBOW MINE - gilsonite. Yankee mine - barite, chalcopyrite, gold, galena, jame-
sonite, pyrite, sphalerite, tetrahedrite.
ROCK CREEK - collophane. carbonate apatite. fluroa-
patite, francolite, phosphorite, rare earths. BEVERLY HILLS
Manning Canyon Shale - chlorite, gibbsite, kaolinite,
SILVER KING MINE - cerussite. illite, pyrophyllite, rectorite.
SNOW CLAIMS - autunite, torbernite. CALEDONIA DISTRICT (See NORTH TINTIC DIS-
TRICT)
SPLIT MOUNTAIN - glauconite, in curtis Formation.
CEDAR VALLEY - kaolinite, pyrophyllite in Manning
STEINAKER DRAW - gypsum. Canyon Shale.
UTELAND KNOLL DISTRICT (Ouray). - azurite. chal- CLAY CANYON (Oquirrh Mountains) - bedellite, cran-
cocite, gypsum, halotrichite, ilsemannite, malachite, dallite, dehrnite, deltaite, dennisonite, davidsonite,
molybdenite, pyrite. englishite, gordonite, goyazite, kolbeckite, lehiite,
lewistonite, millisite, montgoneryite, overite, pseudo-
VERNAL (N.) - analcite in Chinle Formation; glauconite wavellite, sterrettite, variscite, wardite.
in Curtis Formation.
COLTON
WHITE RIVER CANYON - analcite, apophyllite. Higgins, James Peak (Brown Bear), Kyune Canyon,
IIIidnight, .Hiller, Pleasant Valley, Thomas Ranch, Town
WHITEROCKS CANYON - asphalt, gypsum. mines - albertite, ingrarnite, nigrite. ozocerite.
Eureka Bullion mine - anglesite, azurite, cerussite, chal- LAKE BONNEVILLE SHORELINE - thinolite as a
copyrite, enargite, galena, gold, malachite, pyrite, cement in gravels.
sphalerite, tetralledrite.
Eureka UI)' mille - acanthite, anglesite, argentojarosite, LAKE MOUNTAINS
argentite, azurite, barite, bismite, bismuthinite, bornite, Mannil1f; Canyon Shale - chlorite, gibbsite, kaolinite;
calaverite, cerargyrite, cerussite, chalcocite, chalco- illite, pyrophyllite, rectorite.
pyrite, enargite, galena, gold, hemimorphite, hessite,
jamesonite. malachite, petzite, plumbojarosite. poly- LEHI DISTRICT (Lake Mountain).
basite, proustite, pyrite, silver, smithsonite, sphalerite, Manning Canyon Shale - chlorite, gibbsite, kaolinite,
te trahedrite. illite, pyrophyllite; rectorite.
Eureka Standard mine - anglesite, argentite, azurite,
barite, bornite, calavarite, ceruSSite, chalcocite, chal- PELICAN POINT AREA.
copyrite, covellite, enargite, galena, gold, hessite, kaolin- Canyon, Foothill and Hilltop, Pelican and Utah Valley
ite, malachite, marcasite, petzite, proustite, pyrite, veins - aragonite, calcite.
sphalerite. sylvanite (krennerite), tetrahedrite. Hutchings claim - limonite pseudomorphs after pyrite.
iron King mine - argentite, barite, enargite, galena, gold, Philippine, Potter claims - calcite, (onyx).
hematite, hessite, limonite, pyrite, pyrolusite, tetra-
hedrite. PFEIFFER CANYON AREA - calcite (onyx).
Larsell Clay pits - allophane, alunite, endellite, gibbsite, Blue Rock claim - pyrolusite.
halloysite. kaolinite, pyrite.
North Lily mine - anglesite, argentite, barite, billings- WEST SLOPE AREA.
leyite. bismuthinite, cerussite, chalcopyrite, cubanite, Wildcat mine - cryptomelane, wad.
dickite, enargite, endellite, galena. gold, greenockite,
hemimorphite, hessite, kaolinite, krennerite, luzonite, LITTLE COTTONWOOD STOCK - apatite, allanite,
mon tmorillonite, pearceite, petzite, plumbojarosite, biotite, hornblende, magnetite, microcline, plagioclase,
pyrite. smithsonite, sphalerite, tennantite, tetrahedrite, orthoclase, quartz, sphene, zircon.
wurtzite.
Timic Standard mine - argentite. argentojarosite, angle- NORTH TINTIC (CALEDONIA, OASIS) DISTRICT
site, azurite, barite. bismuthinite, cerargyrite, cerussite, (East Tintic Mountains) (See also under Juab and Tooele
chalcophanite. chalcopyrite, coronadite, enargite, galena, Counties).
gold, halotrichite, hematite. hessite, jarosite, kornelite, Blowhole Hill proper(v - cerussite, galena.
krennerite, limonite, luzonite, malachite, marcaSite, Fields group (Fremont Canyon) - jasper, pyrolusite.
pearceite, petzite, plumbojarosite, polybasite, psilo- Lehi- Tintie, Tintic Empire, Tintic Paymaster mines -
melane, pyrite, pyrolusite, rhodochrosite, siderotil, anglesite, cerussite, galena, jasper, pyrite.
sphalerite, stromeyerite, szomolnokite, tetrahedrite, North Tintic claims - pyrolusite.
tinticite, wad. Oxen mine, Tip Top tunnel - psilomelane, pyrolusite,
Trixie mine - anglesite, argentojarosite, argentite, azurite, wad.
bornite, cerussite, chalcocite, chalcopyrite, covellite, Selma mine - anglesite, cerussite, limonite, hematite,
enargite, galena, gold, hematite, hemimorphite, hydro- pyrite.
mica. jarosite, malachite, plumbojarosite, polybasite,
proustite, pyrite, scorodite, smithsonite, sphalerite, OASIS DISTRICT (See NORTH TINTIC DISTRICT).
stromeyerite, tennantite, tetrahedrite.
Zuma mine - barite, enargite, galena, pyrite, sphalerite. PAYSON DISTRICT (Wasatch Mountains).
Nelson mine - galena, gold, limonite, pyrite.
Snydicate mine - barite, cerussite, galena, limonite,
FOX HILLS (S. end Lake Mountain) - endellite, halloy- smithsonite, sphalerite.
site, kaolinite, montmorillonite, olivine in basalts.
PROVO DISTRICT (Wasatch Mountains).
GILLULY (8 mi. N. W.) - asphalt. Monarch (Buckley) mine - argentite, calcite, cerussite,
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dolomite, galena, hematite, limonite,. pyrite. WELLS CA~IYON (S. Oquirrh Mountains) - calcite,
eardleyite, quartz, smithsonite.
SANTAQUIN DISTRICT (Wasatch Mountains).
Black Balsam vein - calcite, chalcopyrite, fluorite, mala- WASATCH COUNTY
chite, pyrite.
BIlle Eagle prospect - calcite, cerussite, vanadinite. BLUE LEDGE DISTRICT (Bald Mountain).
Copper Bullion prospect - chalcopyrite, malachite, Glencoe, ,llcHenry, Valeo mines - cerussite, galena, gold,
specularite, pyrite. pyromorphite. sphalerite.
Sally Ann prospect - chalcopyrite, cuprite, malachite. Mayf70wer mine - bornite, chalcopyrite, galena, gold,
SalltaLluill Central !lInnel - chalcopyrite, pyrite, specula- pyrite, rhodochrosite, sphalerite, siderite, silver.
rite. Ontario tunnel - magnesioferrite.
Union Chief mine - barite, calcite, cerussite, cerargyrite,
galena, hematite, limonite, sulfur. BONANZA FLAT - calcite, garnet, muscovite.
SILVER LAKE DISTRICT (Wasatch Mountains). CLAYTON PEAK - chabazite, spinel, vesuvianite.
Deer Creek - brucite, coerdierite, garnet, gold, graphite,
hematite, magnetite, molybdenite, olivine, prehnite, ELKHORN DISTRICT (Wasatch Mountains) -
periclase, psilomelane, quartz, scheelite, siderite, sphene, Crawford property - cerussite, galena, gold. tetrahedrite.
wollastonite. Nelson, Queen properties - cerussite, galena, gold,
Mayday Extension claim - scheelite. tetralledrite.
Milkmaid mine - actinolite, anglesite, ~mdradite, argen-
tite, barite, bornite, cerussite, chalcopyrite, epidote, HOWLAND DISTRICT (See SNAKE CREEK DIS-
galena, gold, grossularite, pyrite, scheelite, tetrahedrite, TRICT).
zircon.
KEETLEY AREA - alunite, dickite, halloysite, kao-
Ontario mine - actinolite, anglesite, argentite, barite,
linite, montmorillonite.
cerussite, chalcopyrite, galena, gold, pyrite, sphalerite,
tetrahedrite.
MIDWAY (N.) - phosphorite.
Silver Creek - andradite, brucite, cordierite, epidote,
grossularite, graphite, hematite, magnetite, olivine,
RHODES PLATEAU (WOODLA."JD) DISTRICT (Uinta
periclase, quartz, siderite, zircon.
Mountains).
East Star no. I, Gray Hawk properties - pyrolusite.
SPANISH FORK CANYON.
Ferry Iron deposit - hematite. magnetite, red ocher,
Diamond F'ork - sulfur.
speculari te.
Little Diamond Fork - phosphorite.
WOODLAND DISTRICT (See RHODES PLATEAU pyrite, quartz, selenium mineralization, tenorite.
DISTRICT). B. Reef mille - volborthite.
Barbee and Walker mille - chalcocite, silver.
WASHINGTON COUNTY Buckeye mine· autunite, carnotite, malachite.
Butte Reef mine· carnotite.
BEAVER DAM MOUNTAINS - realgar, scheelite. California mine· argentite, cerargyrite.
Cobb mille· chalcocite, embolite.
BEAVER DAM WASH - agate, silicified wood. Doyle shaft - carnotite.
Duffin. ToquCTville mines - autunite, chalcocite.
BULL VALLEY DISTRICT (Bull Valley) - calcite, gold. East Ree(mine. autunite, carnotite, malachite.
Bucky claim - hematite. Emi~v Jalle mine - chalcocite, malachite.
BiR Mountain claims - hematite, magnetite. Last Chance mine· chalcocite.
Cove Mountain - hematite. Leeds mine· argentite, azurite, cerargyrite.
Emma claims - hematite, magnetite. Maud claim· malachite.
Enterprise claims - hematite. Newton mine· azurite.
Iron Rod claims - hematite. Requa mine - argentite, azurite, cerargyrite, malachite.
Pil,it claims - hematite, magnetite, orpiment, realgar, Savage mine - argentite, cerargyrite.
stibnite. Thompsons mine - chalcocite, silver.
Redtop claims - magnetite. Tecumseh Hill . cerargyrite, chalcocite, volborthite.
Soft Iron claims - hematite, red ocher. Wells pit· volborthite.
CASTLE CLIFF (near) - agate, silicified wood. ST. GEORGE (S.) - gypsum.
SANT A CLARA DISTRICT (Santa Clara) - autunite, CAPITOL REEF MONUMENT - carnotite, sideronat-
carnotite, silicified wood. rite, torbernite.
Black Beal/tv /10. I claim - celestite, gypsum, pyrolu-
site. CAPITOL WASH - azurite, asphalt, malachite, urano-
cher.
SILVER REEF (HARRISBURG) DISTRICT (Leeds) -
aguilarite, bornite, calcite, chalcopyrite, cuprite, gyp. CAPITOL WASH TO SHEETS GULCH - azurite, mala-
sum, jasper, kaolinite, mon tmorillonite, muscovite, chite, metatorbernite.
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FRUIT A TO HANKSVILLE - agate, chert, silicified SIERRA MADRE DISTRICT (Wasatch Mountains) -
wood. epidote, garnet, hematite, molybdenite, quartz.
Eldorado property - anglesite, bornite, calcite, cerussite,
GRAND WASH TO CAPITOL WASH - alunite, asphalt, fluorite, galena, malachite.
jarosite, malachite, metatorbernite, zippeite. King Solomon vein - chalcopyrite, gold, malachite, py-
rite.
HANKSVILLE (N.) - carnotite. Napoleon·Maghera group - biotite, chalcopyrite, horn-
blende, pyrite.
HENRY MOUNTAINS.
Mt. Ellen (N. end) - carnotite. STRONGS CANYON - garnet.
Coaly basin (N. W. Flank Mt. Ellen) - jet.
WEBER (JUNCTION) DISTRICT (Wasatch Mountains) -
LAST CHANCE GULCH - anhydrite, gypsum. hematite. magnetite.
New Azurite claim - azurite, galena, malachite.
MINERS MOUNTAIN DISTRICT (Miners Mountain) - Norman mine - fluorite.
chalcopyrite, galena, pyrite. Payday claims - psilomelane, pyrolusite.
Old Faithful, Wonder Copper no. 1 mines - azurite, Standard Mining Company mine - galena, malachite.
limonite, malachite.
Crystals tabular, occur singly or in groups. H. 2-3. 3.S. G. 4.3. Cleavage good. Color honey-yellow, violet,
G. 3.7. Color yellow. Transparent. Luster vitreous. rose-red, green, colorless. Luster vitreous. Brittle. A rare
Fluoresces to moderately yellow-green color. Streak secondary mineral in oxidized ore zones containing
pale yellow. Occur as crystalline coating, lining fractures primary zinc and arsenic materials.
in sandstone. Juab County Tintic district: Iron Blossom mine.
Emerr Coullty San Rafael district: Temple Mountain, Tooele Coun(v Gold Hill district: Gold Hill (Western
Fuemrol no. 2 mine. Utah) mine.
Washington County Tutsagubet district: Apex (Dixie)
ACANTHITE mine.
Silver sulfide, Ag 2S. Orthorhombic. Prismatic crystals.
Sectilc. H. 2-2V2. G. 7.2. Luster metallic. Color iron ADULARIA (See ORTHOCLASE)
black.
Utah Cuullty East Tintic district: Eureka Lily mine. AEGERITE (See WURTZILITE)
A lead, silver, copper bismuth sulfide, Pb(Ag,Cu)2Bi4SS' ALLEV ARDITE (See RECTO RITE)
Massive, compact. or with foliated structrue. Indistinct
cleavage. Brittle. H. 2.6. G. 6.S. Luster metallic. Color ALLOPHANE
light lead-gray, may tarnish bronze. Streak gray. Opaque.
Salt Lake County Big Cottonwood district: Maxfield Hydrous aluminum silicate, AI 2Si0 5 -nH 20. Amor-
mine. phous. In incrustations, sometimes stalactitic. H.3.
G. 1.8. Brittle. Fracture imperfectly conchoidal. Luster
ALBERTITE vitreous to subresinous. Color pale sky-blue, green,
brown, colorless. Translucent.
An asphaltic pyrobitumen. Occurs in veins and fillings Kane County Kaibab fault, west side.
in the Green River Formation. Piute County Marysvale district.
Duchesne County near Duchesne. Salt Lake County Bingham district: Bingham Copper pit.
Utah County Colton: Higgins, James Peak (Brown Bear), San Juan County White Canyon district: Elk Ridge:
Kyune Canyon, Midnight, Miller, Pleasant Valley, Sandy No.3 mine; Happy Jack mine.
Thomas Ranch, Town mines. Utah Coullty East Tintic district: Larsen clay pits.
Wasatch County Soldier Summit: Culmer Brothers,
Soldier Summit, U. S. mines. ALMANDINE (See SPINEL)
Hydrous aluminum potassium sulfate, KAI3(S04)2 Hudrous ammonium aluminum sulfate, (NH4)AI(SO~2·
(OH)6' Hexagonal. In rhombohedrons, resembling 12H 0. Isometric. Occurs as fibrous or columnar mass-
2
cubes. Massive. with fibrous organular texture. H. es, or as efflorescences. H. 1.5. G. 1.6. Fracture con-
3.5-4. G. 2.6-2.9. Cleavage distinct basal. Fracture choidaL Luster vitreous, fibrous masses silky. Color-
uneven. Luster vitreous and pearly. Brittle. Color white, less to white. Taste sweetish and astringent.
pink, gray. Kane Coullty Kaibab fault, west side.
Beal'CT Coullty Indian Peak Range: Big Pinto Spring:
Pine Grove district: Southern Wah Wah Mountains: AMMONIOJAROSITE
Blawn Peak, NG Subareas A, B, C, and D deposits,
SX deposit. Newton district: Sheep Rock mine; San Basic sulfate of ammonium and ferric iron, (NH4)
Francisco district: Horn Silver mine; White Moun- Fe3(SO~2(OH)6' Hexagonal. Occurs as small lumps and
tain. irregular flattened nodules, composed of microscopic
Box Elder County Lucin district: Copper Mountain, tabular grains. G. 3.1. Color light yellow. Luster dull,
Tecoma Hill mines. waxy to earthy.
Iroll COUllt)' Modena, I mile northwest; Needles Range: Kane County Kaibab fault, west side.
PV deposit; Southern Wah Wah Mountains: SX deposit.
Millard County Church Hills: Stevens prospect. AMPHIBOLE (See also ACTINOLITE, HORNBLENDE,
Piute County Deer Trail Mountain-Alunite Ridge; TREMOLITE)
Gold Mountain district; Marysvale district: AI-Kee-Mee,
Aluminum Bar, Aluminum Queen, Big Chief, Big Star, Series of complex silicates of magnesium, iron, calcium,
Close In. East Slope no. 2, ]. and L. Alunite, Manning and aluminum or various combinations of these ele-
Creek, Mary's Lamb, Marysvale Peak, North Star, ments. Amphibole is a common rockforming mineral in
Pittsburg. Potash Butte, Silica Hills, White Hills, White both igneous and metamorphic rocks.
Horse, Yellow Jacket mines; Mount Baldy district: Tooele County Gold Hill district: Calaveras, Centennial
Aetna, Alunite Ridge, Bradburn, Christmas mines, Close and Enterprise, Reaper mines.
In, Crystal, L. and N., Mineral Products, Sunshine
mines; Sevier Canyon. ANALCIME (See ANALCITE)
Sail Juan County Red Canyon district: Markey no. 3
mine; White Canyon district: W. N. mine. ANALCITE
Sepia COUIlf)' Rock Candy Mountain.
Utah Coullty East Tintic district, Larsen clay pits. Hydrous sodium aluminum silicate, NaAlSi 20 6 · H 20.
Wasatch Coullty Keetley area. Isometric. Usually forms trapezohedrons, also massive
WaslzinKton COlln(V Mineral Mountain: Beauty Knoll granular, compact. H. 5-5.5. G. 2.2. Cleavage cubic.
claims. Fracture subconchoidaL Brittle. Luster vitreous. Color-
Wayne County Chimney Rock to Tantlus Flat; Fruita: less. white: occasionally gray, greenish, yellowish, or
Oyler mine; Grand Wash to Capitol Wash. reddish. A zeolite.
Duchesne County Carter Oil Company wells; Green
ALUNOGEN River Formation; Sinclair Mortenson well.
Iron County in andesite flows near Paragonah.
Hydrous aluminum sulfate, AI2(SO~3·16H20. Tri- Tooele County Rush Valley district: Settlement Canyon.
clinic. Uusually in delicate fibrous masses, crusts, or in Uintah County Chinle Formation near Vernal; Green
powder form. H. 1.5-2. G. 1.65-1.8. Cleavage perfect. River Formation south of Ouray. Hells Hole Canyon;
Luster vitreous to silky. Colorless, white, yellowish, or White River Canyon.
reddish by impurities.
Emery COUIl(V San Rafael district: Dexter group. ANATASE
Garfield COUllt)' Coyote Creek district: Hampton mine.
Titanium dioxide, Ti0 2 . Tetragonal. Commonly pyrami-
dal crystals, also tabular. H. 5.5-6. G. 3.9. Cleavage
AMATRICE (See V ARISCITE) perfect. Fracture subconchoidaL Brittle. Luster adaman-
tine. Color various shades of brown, passing into indigo-
EMETHYST (See QUARTZ) blue and black; also greenish, blue-green, lilac, gray, and
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rarely colorless. Streak colorless to pale yellow. Trans- Beaper Count}' Bradshaw district: Cave mine; Pine Grove
parent. district; San Francisco district: Horn Silver mine;
Piute County Mount Baldy district: Deer Trail mine. Lincoln district: Creole, Lincoln mines; Star district:
Tooele County Gold Hill district: Reaper mine. Cedar-Talisman, Estelle, Gold Crown, Hoosier Boy,
Utah County East tin tic district. Harrington-Hickory, Hub, Moscow, Rebel, Red
Wayne County Caineville. Warrior, White Rock, Wild Bill mines.
Box Elder County Ashbrook district: Vipont mine;
ANDALUSITE Lucin district: Copper Mountain, Tecoma Hill mines;
Newfoundland district.
Aluminum silicate, AI 2SiO S' Orthorhombic. Usually Cache County Paradise district.
in coarse prismatic forms, also massive, sometimes Dapis County Farmington district: Parrish Canyon.
radiated and granular. H. 7.5. G. 3.2. Cleavage good. Emery County San Rafael district: Copper Globe mine.
Fracture uneven. Brittle. Luster vitreous. Color white, Juab County Fish Springs district: Carnation, Emma,
reddish, violet, gray, reddish-brown, olive-green. A Galena, Utah mines; Tintic district: Bullion Beck, Eagle,
metamorphic mineral. Blue Bell, Eureka Hill, Gemini, Godiva, Humbug, Sun-
Beaver County Beaver Lake district. beam, Swansea mines; West Tintic district: 88, Scotia,
Juab County Trout Creek district: Bacon mine. War Eagle mines.
Tooele County Deep Creek Mountains; Gold Hill iHillard County Leamington district: Arbroath, Leaming-
district: Cane Springs mine. ton Mining Company, Yellowstone mines.
it/organ County Argenta district: Carbonate Hill, Car-
ANDERSONITE bonate Gem mines.
Piute County Mount Baldy district: Deer Trail mine.
Hydrous carbonate of sodium, calcium, uranium, Salt Lake Coullty Big Cottonwood district, Eclipse mine,
Na2Ca(U02) (C03)3-·6H20. Hexagonal. Occurs in clus- Bingham district: Galena, Old Jordan mines; Little
ters of minute pseudo-cubic crystals. G. 2.8. Color Cottonwood district: Emma, Little Emma, Michigan-
bright green. Fluoresces bright green. Soluble in water. Utah mines.
Grand County Thompsons district: Parco no. 23, Skinny Summit County Park City district: Comstock, Daly,
no. I mines. Little Bell, Nail Driver, Ontario, Scottish Chief, Silver
Emery County San Rafael district: Delta mine. King, Woodside mines.
San Juan COllnty Cane Wash: Atomic King no. 2 Tooele County Dugway district: Bryan claim; Gold hill
mine; Elk Ridge. district: Cash Boy, Gold Hill (U. S.), Gold Hill Standard,
Monoco, New Baltimore, Red Jacket, Rube, Silver King,
ANDESINE Spotted Fawn mines; North Tintic district: New Bullion,
Sacramento mines; Rush Valley district: Honerine,
A mineral intermediate in the albiteanorthite series. Muerbrook mines; Lakeside district.
Triclinic. Crystals tabular and elongated, twinned. H. 6. Utah County East Tintic district: Apex Standard,
G. 2.6. Cleavage good. Fracture uneven. Luster vitreous Burgin, Eureka Bullion, Eureka Lily, Eureka Standard,
to pearly. Colorless, white, gray. Constituent of many North Lily, Tintic Standard, Trixie mines; North Tintic
igneous rocks in Utah. district: Lehi Tintic, Tintic Empire, Tintic Paymaster,
fran County Paragonah: Iron Peak. Selma mines; Silver Lake district: Milkmaid, Ontario
Millard County Twin Peaks. mines.
Weber COUIJtv Sierra Madre district: Eldorado property.
ANDRADITE (See GARNET)
ANHYDRITE
ANGLESITE
Calcium sulfate, CaS04' Orthorhombic. Crystals not
Lead sulfate, PbS0 4 . Orthorhombic. Crystals prismatic, common, usually massive, granular. H. 3-3.5. G. 2.9.
or tabular. Also massive, granular to compact, nodular, Cleavage good. Fracture uneven. Brittle. Luster vitreous
frequently earthy in concentric layers. H. 3. G. 6.4. to pearly. Color white, gray, bluish, reddish. Trans-
Cleavage good. Fracture conchoidal. Brittle. Luster parent to translucent. Occurs in association with gyp-
adamantine when pure, dull when earthy. Color white, sum. In southeastern Utah it is found in the Paradox
tinged yellow, gray, green, blue. Found in oxidized zone Member of the Hermosa Formtion; in east-central Utah
of ore bodies. it occurs in the Carmel and Summerville Formation; in
Minerals and Mineral Localities of Utah, Kenneth C. Bullock 45
Native arsenic, As. Hexagonal. Rarely in crystals, gen- ASBESTOS (See SERPENTINE)
erally granular massive, sometimes reticulated, reniform,
stalactitic. Cleavage good. Fracture uneven. Brittle. ASPHALT (See ASPHALTUM)
H.3.5. G. 5.7. Luster nearly metallic. Color and streak
tin-white, tarnishing to dark gray. ASPHALTUM
Elllerv COllilty San Rafael district: Camp Bird No.7,
Fuemrol no. 2 mines. Mixture of various hydrocarbons. Amorphous. G. 1-1.8.
Luster like black pitch. Color brownish black, black.
ARSENIOSIDERITE Odor bituminous. Burns with a bright flame.
Box Elder Coullty north shore of Great Salt Lake; Rozel
Hydrous calcium iron arsenate, Ca3Fe4 (As0 4 )4(OH)- Point.
6- 3H,)O. Monoclinic. In fibrous concretions, also Carbon COl/nty Sunnyside.
granular. H. 4.5. G. 3.6. Cleavage basal. Luster silky. Uintalz Coullty Asphalt Ridge; Evacuation Creek; PR
Color yellowish brown and reddish brown. Streak ocher Springs; Whiterocks Canyon.
yellow. Utah COl/llty Colton; Gilluly; Thistle Junction.
Juah County Tintic district. Wasatch County Soldier Summit.
To"elc Coullty Gold Hill district: Gold Hill (Western k'ayne COl/llty Capitol Wash; Grand Wash to Capitol
Utall) mine. Wash.
ARSENOBlSMITE ATACAMITE
Hydrous bismuth arsenate, Bi 2 As0 4(OH)3' Cubic. Basic chloride of copper, CU2 (OH)3C1· Orthorhombic.
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Commonly in slender prismatic crystals, also tabular. White Mountain, one mile east. Pine Grove district:
Occurs as aggregates. also massive, fibrous, granular to Daisy, Producer, Staats (Monarch) mines.
compact. H. 3-3.5. G. 3.7. Color bright green. Luster Emery County San Rafael district: Delta Mine, Wild
adamantine to vitreous. Cleavage good. Brittle. Streak Horse Canyon.
apple green. Secondary mineral. Garfied County Circle Cliffs: Stud Horse mine.
Juab County Tintic district. Tooele County Gold Hill district: Gold Hill (U.S.)
mine.
AUGITE
AUTUNITE
Aluminous pyroxene, (Ca,Na) (Mg: Fe++, Fe+++,
Ai) (Si, Al)206' Monoclinic. Crystals prismatic. Cleavage Hydrous calcium uranium phosphate, Ca(U02)2(PO~2"
good, prismatic, nearly right angles. H. 5-6. G. 3.3. ·IO-12H"J0. Tetragonal. In thin tabular, wedge-shaped
Luster vitreous. Color dark green to black. crystals. Also in foliated and micaceous crusts. H. 2-2.5.
Beaver County San Francisco district; Star district: G. 3.1. Cleavage good. Luster subadamantine, pearly.
Lady Bryan mine. Color lemon to sulfur yellow. Streak yellowish. Trans-
Grand County La Sal Mountains: North Mountain. parent to translucent.
Iron County Paragonah; Iron Mountain. Beaver County Newton district: Indian Creek, Sniffer
Millard COl/llty Twin Peaks. and Mystery claims; Pine Grove district: Daisy, Pro-
San Juan County La Sal Mountains district: Middle ducer, Staats (Monarch) mines; Southern San Francisco
Mountain, Brumley Ridge. Mountains: White Mountain, one mile east.
Tooele County Dutch Mountain; Stansbury Mountains: Emery County San Rafael district: Calf Mesa, Dalton
North Willow Canyon. group, Delta mine, Dripping Springs, Lone Tree group,
South Temple Wash, Wild Horse Canyon. Wild Horse
AURICHALCITE claims,
Garfield Count)! Circle Cliffs: Acme, Black Widow, Blue
Basic zinc copper carbonate, (Zn: CU)5 (OH)6 (C0 3)2' Goose, Horse Head, Rocky Mountain, Steam Boat,
Orthorhombic. Occurs in drusy incrustations, also Stud Horse mines.
tufted. feathery, or plumose forms. Cleavage good. H. Grand County Pack Creek; Seven Mile Canyon; Thomp-
1-2. G. 3.6. Fragile. Luster silky to pearly. Color pale sons district: Thom claim, Parco no. 23 mine.
green, greenish blue, sky blue. Transparent. Iron County Kanarraville.
Beaver COllnty Bradshaw district: Cave mine: Granite Jllab COllnty Honeycomb Hills; Indian Creek.
district: Big Pass group; Star district: Emerson mine. Kane County Bulloch claims; Paria, 9 miles south.
Juab County Tintic district: Bullion Beck, Carissa Piute County Marysvale district: Buddy, Bullion Mon-
Gemini, Iron Blossom, May Day, Uncle Sam, Yankee arch, Copper Butte, East Slope no. 2, Freedom lease,
mines; West Tintic district: War Eagle claims. Freedom nos. 1 and 2, Prospector nos. 1 and 3 mines.
Salt Lake County Big Cottonwood district: Carbonate San Juan County Monument Valley district: Oljeta,
mine. Skyline mines.
Tooele County Ophir district: Dry Canyon area - Kear- Sanpete County R.A.J. prospect.
sarge mine; Lion Hill area - Buffalo mine, Chloride Uintah County Jenson: Bonnie Bell claims; Snow claims.
Point; Ophir Hill area - Cliff, Hidden Treasure, Sac- Washington County Hurricane Cliffs; Santa Clara
ramento mines; Rush Valley district: Honerine mine; Silver Reef district: Buckeye, Duffin and Toquerville,
North Tintic district: Scranton mine. East Reef mines; Virgin anticline.
Washington County Dry Canyon; Tutsagubet district:
Apex (Dixie) mine. AXINITE
Gulch; Miners Mountain district: Old Faithful, Wonder Tooele COl/llty Bluebell district: Morgan mine; Deep
Copper no. 1 mines; Torrey: T. R. Lode no. I mine. Creek Mountains: Probert mine; Dugway district: Buck-
Weber C'Ollll(V Cold Water Canyon; Weber district: New horn, Confidence, Four Metals, Francis, Great Eastern,
Azurite claim. Juno, Kellys Hole, Lauris, Nautilus, Pride of the West
mines; Gold Hill district: Christmas Mining Company,
BALYDONITE Garrison Monster, Reaper mines; Ibapah Mountains;
Mercur district; Ophir district: Dry canyon area; Lion
Basic hydrous copper lead arsenate, (Pb, CU)3 As 20 8 Hill area - Buffalo, Chloride Point, Douglas, Lion, Zelia
-(Pb,Cu) (OH),-H.,O. Probably monoclinic. In mam- mines; Ophir Hill area; Silver Island district: Carrie Mack
millary concretions, fibrous, drusy. H. 4.5. G. 4.4. Property; Wild Cat Mountain: Silver Queen mine.
Color green, yellow green. Luster resinous. Utah County American Fork district: Bog, Dutchman,
SUlllmit Coullty Park City district: Daly-Judge mine. Pacific, Yankee mines; East Tintic .listrict: Burgin,
Utah Coullty East Tintic district. Eureka Lily, Eureka Standard, Iron King, Zuma mines;
Tintic Standard mines; Payson district: Syndicate mine;
BARITE Santaquin district: Union Chief mine; Silver Lake
district: Milkmaid, Ontario mines.
Barium sulfate, BaS04' Orthorhombic. Crystals com- Wasatch County Strawberry area, along thrust fault.
monly tabular, also prismatic. Globular forms, fibrous, Weber County Cold Water Canyon.
lamellar, crested. earthy. H. 3-3.5. G. 4.5. Cleavage good.
Fracture uneven. Brittle. Luster vitreous. Color white, or BARNESITE
various tinges. Transparent to translucent.
Beaver County Antelope district; Beaver Lake district; Hydrous sodium vanadate, Na2V6-016-3H20. Mono-
Granite district: Big Pass, Contact mines; McGarry clinic. Consists of microscopic bladed to fibrous crys-
district; Pruess district: Blackbird, Cactus, Gold Reef tals, in loose aggregates or in radiating cluster. Color
mines; San Francisco district: Horn Silver mine. dark red. Luster adamantine. Grains soft and friable.
Box Elder County Lucin district: Copper Mountain, G. 3.2. Occurs in small cavities, fractures, and fillings
Tri-State Minerals mines; Rosebud district. in sandstone.
Emery County Barium Incorporated mine. Grand County Thompsons district: Cactus Rat mine.
Grand Coullty Courthouse Wash; Little Grand district:
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company mine; Needles; BARYTOCALCITE
Tenmile Wash; Ryan Creek Scheelite prospect.
Iron County Escalante district: Escalante mine, Iron Calcium barium carbonate, CaBa- (C0 3)2' Monoclinic.
Springs district: Granite Mountain, Iron Mountain. Usually short to long prismatic crystals. Cleavage
Juab County Deseret district: Rockwell shaft; Fish perfect. Fracture uneven. Brittle. H. 4. G. 3.6. Luster
Springs district: Garrick mine; Mount Nebo district: vitreous. Colorless to white, gray, green, yellow. Occurs
Eva, Freddie mines; Tintic district: Boss Tweed, Carissa, in dolomitic shale.
Centennial Eureka, Eureka Hill, Gold Chain, Grand Uintah County Sun Oil Company South Ouray welL
Central, Iron Blossom, Mammoth, Ophohonga, Swansea
mines; West Tintic district: 88, 1903, Pyramid, Scotia, BASALUMINITE
War Eagle mines.
Kane County Kitchen Corral Canyon. Hydrous aluminum sulphate, AI4(S04) (OH)1O-5H 20.
Morgan Coullty Argenta district: Carbonate Hill, Car- Hexagonal. Massive, microcrystalline. Compact to
bonate Gem mines. powdery, G. 2.12. Fracture conchoidal when compact.
Piute Coullty Gold Mountain district; Marysvale district: Color white, often shaded yellow, orange, or brown,
Bullion Monarch mine; Mount Baldy district: Lucky Luster dull.
Boy mine; Ohio district: Bully Boy and Webster mines. Emery County Temple Mountain: Fuemrol No.2 mine.
Rich CUll/ltV Swan Creek district: Victoria prospect.
Salt Lake County Big Cottonwood district; Bingham
district: Eagle Bird Lode. Lucky Boy. Queen mines; BASSANITE
Little Cottonwood district: Albion, Flagstaff mines.
Sail Juan Coul1ty White Canyon district: Happy Jack Hydrous calcium sulfate, 2CaS04 -H 2 0. Monoclinic.
mine. Pseudomorphs after gypsum, composed of microscopic
Summit COl/n ty Park City district. needles in parallel arrangement. Color white. G. 2.7.
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BAYLEYITE BERTRANDITE
Hydrated magnesium uranium carbonate, Mg 2 (U0 2) Hydrous beryllium silicate, B4 Si 20 7(OH)2' Orthor-
(C0 3)3' 18H 20. Monoclinic. Occurs as minute, short hombic. Occurs in small tabular or prismatic crystals,
prismatic crystals, also in acicular and divergent groups. heart shaped twins. Cleavage good. H. 6-7. G. 2.6.
H. 2-2.5. G. 2. Color sulfur yellow. Luster vitreous. Colorless to pale yellow. Luster vitreous. Occurs in
Emery Coun(v San Rafael district: Delta mine. association with fluorite in tuffaceous beds replacing
San Juall COlillty Big Indian district: Mi Vida mine; dolomite nodules. Grains about one micron in diameter.
Elk Ridge; Coral claim; White Canyon district: Hideout Juab County Honeycomb Hills; Thomas Range: Spor
mine. Mountain - Claybank, Blue Chalk, Hogsback, Northend,
Rainbow, Roadside claims.
Tooele Coullty Gold Hill district: Rodenhouse Wash.
BEAVERITE BERYL
Basic sulfate of lead, copper, ferric iron, and aluminum, Beryllium aluminum silicate, Be3AlTSi601B' Hexagon-
Pb(Cu,Fe,Al)3- (S04)2(OH)6' Hexagonal. Friable and al. Crystals usually long prismatic, often vertically
earthy masses. G. 4.4. Color canary yellow. striated. Also coarse columnar or granular to compact.
Bearer Coullty San Francisco district: Horn Silver mine. H. 7.5-B. G. 2.7. Cleavage poor. Fracture conchoidal
Millard Coullty Church Hills: Stevens prospect. to uneven. Brittle. Luster vitreous. Color emerald green,
Salt Lake COlllltr Little Cottonwood district: Centennial pale green to blue, yellow, white. Transparent to trans-
Alta mine. lucent. Aquamarine variety found in Ibapall Mountains;
Tooele Coullty Ophir district: Ophir Hill area - Hidden bixbite, raspberry red color, found on Topaz Mountain;
Treasure mine. morganite, pink to rose red, variety found on west side
Utah County East Tintic district. of Spor Mountain.
Beaver County Granite district: Miller, Scheelite group
BECQUERELITE mines.
Daggett COUI1(}' Red Creek Complex.
Hydrated calcium uraninate, CaU 60 19 ' I IH"O. Orthor- Juab County Deep Creek Mountains: Apex, Jumbo,
hombic. Crystals tabular and elongated, st~iated: also Mary, Queen of Sheba, Trout Creek mines. Goshute
massive. H. 2.5. G. 5.2. Cleavage good. Luster adaman- Indian Reservation: Ibapah Mountains: Fifteenmile
tine. Color amber to brownish yellow. Streak yellow. Canyon; Thomas Range: Spor, Topaz Mountains; Trout
Transparent. Creek district: Apex mine; Spring creek district: Queen
Emery Coullty San Rafael district: Delta mine, Green of Sheba mine; Dugway Range.
Vein Mesa, Consolidated, Lucky Strike, Lucky Strike Tooele Coullty Dugway district: East Erickson district:
no. '1_ mll1es.
. Hard - to - Beat, Sheeprock Canyons; Granite Mountain
district; Blue Bell mine. Ibapah Mountains.
Grand Coullty Seven Mile Canyon.
Sail Juan Coullty Big Indian district: Big Buck mine;
Red Canyon district: Frey no. 4, Posey mines; White BET A-URANOPHANE
Canyon district: Happy Jack, Hideout. Posey mines. (See BET A-URANOTILE)
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BET A-URANOTILE Utah County East Tintic district: North Lily mine.
BIXBYITE BORICKITE
Iron manganese oxide. (Mn.Fe)2 03' Isometric. Black Hydrous basic calcium iron phosphate. probably
cubic crystals. H. 606.5. G. 4.9. Cleavage poor. Fracture CaFeS(P04):;(OH)II'3H:;0. Amorphous. Reniform
irregular. Luster metallic to submetallic. Color black. massive. compact. In part opaline. H. 3.5. G. 2.7. Color
Streak black. Opaque. and streak reddish·brown. Luster weak waxy. Opaque.
Juab COUlllY Dugway Range; Thomas Range: Topaz Juab County Tintic district: Ajax, Mammoth mines.
Mountain.
BORNITE
BLOEDITE
Copper iron sulfide. CUSFeS4' Isometric. Usually
Hydrated sulfate of sodium and magnesium, Na",Mg massive, granular or compact. H. 3. G. 5. Cleavage poor.
( S0 4)2'4H 20. Monoclinic. Crystals short prismatic. Fracture conchoidal, uneven. Luster metallic. Color
Massive granular or compact. Fracture conchoidal. copper·red to bronze, with iridescent tarnish. Streak
Brittle. H. 2.5·3. G. 2.3. Colorless. Luster vitreous. grayish black. Opaque.
Transparent. Taste faint, saline, and bitter. Beaver Coullty Beaver Lake district; Granite district:
Box f.'lder Coullty Great Salt Lake shores. Contact group; Lincoln district: Creole mine; Rocky
Dal'is Coullty Great Salt Lake shores. district: Bawana. Maria, Old Hickory mines.
Salt l.ake Coullty Great Salt Lake shores. Box Elder County Crater Island district: Copper BIos·
Tooele COllllty Great Salt Lake shores. som mine; Newfoundland district: Copper Ridge;
Promontory district: Lakeview mining properties.
Daggett Coullty Red Creek: Yellow Canary uranium
BOEHMITE
deposits.
Davis Coullty Farmington district: Parrish Canyon.
Hydrous aluminum oxide, H. 3. AIO(OH). Orthorhom·
Emery County San Rafael district: Maybe mine.
bic. In microscopic lenticular crystals. G. 3.01. Color Garfield County Henry Mountains.
white, gray, tan, or reddish.
Grand County Hoosier mine; La Sal district: Bornite,
Utah Coullty East Tintic district. McCoy mines; Seven Mile Canyon: Shinarump nos. 1·3
claims.
BOG ORE (See GOETHITE)
1uab County Deseret Mountain district.
BOLTWOODITE Salt Lake LUll/lty Big Cottonwood district: Big Cotton-
wood, Columbus·Rexall, Mountain Lake mines; Bing·
Hydrous potassium uranium silicate. K (U0 )2(Si0 )2 ham district: Bingham Copper pit, Carr Fork, Copper
2 2 3
, SH 20. Orthorhombic; may be monoclinic. Occurs Center tunnel, Galena, Old Jordan, Highland Boy,
as radiating acicular to fibrous aggregates. H. 3.5. G. 3.6. Yampa mines; Little Cottonwood district: Alta Stock
Cleavage good. Luster pearly to silky. Color yellow. contact zone, South Hecla mine.
Fluoresces dull green. Encrusts primary uraninite. San Juan County Elk Ridge, Payday mine; La Sal
Emery County San Rafael district: Delta, Pay Day Mountains; Monticello district: Copper Queen mine;
mines. White Canyon district: Blue Lizard. Happy Jack, Hide·
Gralld County Seven Mile Canyon. out, White Canyon No.1, W. N. mines.
Sail Juan Coullty Blue Jay mine; Julia claims; Pete no. Summit Coullty Park City district: Daly. On tario mines.
6 claim; Red Canyon district: Jerry group; White Can· Tooele Coullty Gold Hill district: Alvarado, Cane
yon district: Happy Jack mine. Springs, Copperopolis, Doctor, Frankie. Ida Lull, Midas
mines.
BOOTHITE Uilltah County Browns Park area; Carbonate district:
Dyer mine.
Hydrous copper sulfate, CuS04'7H20. Monoclinic. Utah County East Tintic district; Eureka Lily, Eureka
Usually massive with a crystalline structure, fibrous. Standard, Trixie mines; Silver Lake district: Milkmaid
Cleavage poor. H. 2·2.5. G. 2.1. Luster vitreous, in mine.
fibrous masses silky or pearly. Color pale blue. Wasatch Coullty Blue Ledge district: Maytlower mine.
Secondary mineral. Washington County Silver Reef district.
San Juall Cuullty White Canyon district: W. N. mine. Weber County Sierra Madre district: Eldorado property.
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BOULANGERITE BROCHA~TITE
Lead antimony sulfide, Pb 5Sb 4 S II . Monoclinic. In Basic copper sulfate, CU4 (SO 4) (OH)6' Monoclinic,
prismatic or tabular crystals, Plumose, fibrous, granular, Occurs in groups of prismatic acicular crystals, drusy
or compact. H. 2.5-3. G. 5.7-6.3. Cleavage good. Brittle. crusts. Also massive, reniform. H. 3. 5-4, G. 3.9. Cleav-
Luster metallic. Color bluish lead-gray; often yellow age good. Fracture uneven. Luster vitreous. Color emer·
spots due to oxidation. Streak brownish gray to brown. aid green, blackish green. Streak pale green. Trans·
Opaque. parent to translucent.
SUlIlmit Ci'{lIlt)' Park City district: Park City Consoli- Beaver County San Francisco district: Horn Silver mine.
dated mine. Dagge[f County Red Creek: Yellow Canary uranium
Tuoele Cuunt)' Bingham district: May Flower mine; deposit.
Gold Hill district: Rube mine. Emery COllnty San Rafael district: Delta mine.
Juab Coullty Deseret district. Tintic district: Boss
BOUR.NONITE Tweed, Carissa, Eureka Hill, Mammoth mines.
San Juall COW1~V Red Canyon district: Posey mine:
Lead copper sulfantimonite, Pb CuSbS 3 . Orthorhombic. White Canyon district: Happy Jack mine, Hideout,
Usually short prismatic to tabular crystals. Also massive, Posey mines.
granular to compact. H. 2.5-3. G. 5.7-5.9. Cleavage poor. Summit COllnty Park City district: Silver King, Wood-
Fracture uneven. Luster metallic, brilliant. Color and side mines.
streak steel gray. Opaque. Tooele Coun~y Ophir district: Dry Canyon area.
Salt rake Coullly Bingham district; Little Cottonwood Utah COLIllty East Tintic district: Burgin mine.
district: Albion mine. Wayne Coullty Chimney Rock to Tantlus Flat.
Summit Counry Park City district: Daly Judge, Daly
West. Silver King, Woodside mines. BROCKITE
BRAUNITE BROOKITE
,.., ..,
Manganese silicate. Mn-+Mn6+' SiO I2 . Pyramidal forms, Titanium dioxide, TiO,..,. Orthorhombic. Usually tabular
also granular massive. Cleavage good. Fracture uneven. and elongated crystal;. Cleavage poor. Fracture sub-
Brittle. H. 6-6.5. G. 4.8. Luster submetallic. Color dark conchoidal to uneven. Brittle. H. 5.5·6. G. 4.1. Color
brownish black to steel gray. Streak same. Weekly brown, yellowish brown, reddish brown. Streak uncolor-
magnetic. Opaque. ed, or yellowish.
Jllah County San Pitch Mountains: Black Jack (Kendall- Emery County Emery: Phillips Huntington no. 1 well.
Duvall) claims.
BRUCITE
BRAVOITE
Magnesiulll hydroxide, mg(OH)2' Hexagonal. Crystals
Nickel iron sulfide, (NLFe )S2' Isometric. Usually in usually broad tabular, also foliated massive, fibrous.
crusts or nodular masses, with radial fibrous structure. H. 2.5. G. 2.4. Cleavage perfect. Folia flexible. Seetile.
Brittle. H. 5Y2-6. G. 4.6. Luster metallic. Color steel Luster pearly, waxy. Color white, pale green, gray,
gray. blue. Streak white. Transparent.
Filler!' COl/llty San Rafael district: Delta mine. Beaver Coullty Beaver Lake district.
Salt Lake COlllzty Big Cottonwood district: Big Cotton-
wood, Mountain Lake mines; Little Cottonwood dis-
BRICKERITE (See AUSTINITE) trict: Alta and Clayton Peak stocks along contact.
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Sail Juall Coullty Abe Day's vanadium claim; Big Indian mine.
district: Cal Uranium, Mi Vida, Radon, Rattlesnake
mines; Browns Hole area; Bull Canyon; Cane Springs CELADONITE
Pass: Bridger Jack Flat; Chess Ridge: Cottonwood
Canyon district: Basin, Big Hole, Birthday Shale, Blue Iron magnesium potassium silicate, K(Mg,Fe)(Fe,AI).
Bird, East Bank, Found no. 2, Hangover nos. 1·2, Si 4 0 lO(OH)2' Monoclinic. H. 2. G. 2.9·3.05. Earthy or
Ridge nos. 1 . 2, Ridge nos. 1 . 2 mines; Dry Valley; in minute scales. Lamellar or fibrous. Perfect cleavage.
East Canyon; Elk Ridge: Coral claim; Indian Creek; La Very soft. Color green. Occurs as fillings in amygdules of
Sal Mountains; La Sal Quadrangle: Angle, Brushy lava t1ows.
Basin Nos. 1 and 3, Confusion, Elr:ly, Evening Star, Pillte County Marysvale district: Silica Hills.
Firet1y·Pigmay, Hesperus, Jackpot, Little Dawn, Little Utah COUllty East Tintic district.
Peter, Lucky No.1, Marjorie Ann, Maud, Morning Star,
New Yellow Spot, Sumner, Too High, Uranium Girl, CELESTITE
Valley View, Vista Grande, Wedge, Yellow Bird, Yip
Yip mines; Lisbon V:llley: Climax nos. 1 . 2 claims; Strontium sulfate, SrS04' Orthorhombic. Crystals
Montezuma C:lnyon: Bradford No.5, Cottonwood, tabular or prismatic. Also fibrous, radiated, globular or
Dixie No.1, Last Chance No.1, Lucky Boy, Rim Rock, granular. H. 3.5. G. 3.9. Cleavage good. Luster vitre·
Rock, Slum, Strawberry, Titus No.3, Verdure, West ous to pearly. Colorless to p:lle blue. Transparent to
Cliff House No. 8 mines; Monticello district; Navajo translucen t.
Reservation; Paradox V:llley district: Grey Dawn, Emery County 50 miles S. of town of Green River.
Vanadium Queen mines; Red Canyon district: Spanish Grand County Little Grand district: Salt Wash group.
V:llley Anticline; White Canyon district: Four Aces, San Juan County Big Indian district: Radon mine.
Happy Jack, Hideout, White Canyon no. 1, White Fawn, Sevier County Salina Creek district: Lead Hill mine.
Yellow Circle mines. Washington C()l/Ilty Santa Clara district: Black Beauty
Uintah OJllnty Ashley Creek. no. 1 claim.
Washington COlln(v Santa Clara district; Silver Reef
district: Buckeye, Butte Reef, Doyle Shaft, East Reef CERARGYRITE
mines.
Wayne Coullty C:lpitol Reef Monument; Coleman Can· Silver chloride, AgCl. Isometric. Crystals usually cubic
yon to Oak Creek; Fruita: Oyler mine; Hanksville; but rare. Usually massive resembling wax or horn. often
Henry Mountains: Mt. Ellen; Muddy River; Noron in crusts. H. 2·3. G. 5.5. No cleavage. Fracture uneven.
Bench; Poisen Springs; Rabbit Valley: Old Dixon pros· Highly sec tile and ductile. Luster resinous ro horn·like.
pect; Upheaval Dome; Waterpocket Fold. Colorless to pearly·gray when fresh, readily darkens on
exposure to light. Transparent to translucent.
CARPHOSIDERITE Beaver County Newton district: Sheep Rock mine:
San Francisco district: Horn Silver mine; Star district.
Hyrdrous basic sulfate of ferric iron, (H 2 0) Fe3 (SO~2 Box Elder Coun(y Ashbrook district: Vipont mine.
(OH}.,H-,O. Hexagonal. Earthy or scaly crusts and Iron Coun(y Escalante district: Escalante mine; Gold
aggregat;s, reniform. H. 4·4.5. G. 2. 4 . 2.9. Cleavage Springs district: Homestake mine; Stateline district:
doubtful. Luster resinous to dull. color golden yellow, Creole, Gold Dome, Johnny, Ofer, Phelps, Utah Spur
dark straw·yellow. A gossan constituent. mines.
Juab COllllty Tintic district: Carissa, Eureka Hill mines. Juab County Detroit district: Charm, Copperhead, E. P.
Tooele Coullty Ophir district: Lion Hill area. H., Ibex mines; Fish Springs district: Carnation, Emma,
Galena, Utah mines; Tintic district: Bullion Beck, Cen.
CASSITERITE tennial Eureka, Chief Consolidated, Eagle and Blue Bell,
Gemini, Godiva, Grand Central, Iron. Mammoth mines.
Tin dioxide, SnO,..,. Tetragonal. Frequently in elbow· Piute CUllllly Gold Mountain district: Annie Laurie,
shaped twins; m:ls~ive granular or reniform shapes. H. Sevier mines; Mt. Baldy district: Pluto mine.
6·7. G. 6.9. Luster :ldan1antine to submetallic. Color Salt Lake County Bingham district: Dixon, Winnamuck
usually brown or black. Streak white. Translucent. mines.
Occurs as a detrital mineral in Utah. Summit County Park City district: Daly, Ontario,
Emery Coullty Emery; Phillips Huntington no. I well. Scottish Chief mines.
Piute County Ohio district: Tunnel Extension No. 2 Tooele County Dugway district: Buckhorn, Four
Minerah and Mineral Localities of Utah, Kenneth C. Bullock 59
Metals mines: Erickson district: OK, Silver Reef mines; ington district: Arbroath, Leamington Mining Company,
Lakeside district; Mercur district: Geyser-Marion mine; Yellowstone mines.
Ophir district: Dry Canyon area - Mono mine; Foothill Morgall COllnty Argenta district: Carbonate Hill, Car-
area - Lakes of Killarney mine; Lion Hill area - Buffalo, bonate Gem mines.
Chloride P'lin!, East Side, Douglas, Empire, Iron, Lion, Piute COlIl1~r Mt. Baldy distridt: Deer Trail, Pluto mines;
Monarch, Northern Light, Three Meadows, Woodruff, Ohio district: Bully Boy and Webster, Cascade, Copper
Zelia mines: Ophir Hill area - Hidden Treasure, Jim Fish, Belt, Dalton, Iris, Shamrock mines.
Sacramento mines; Rush Valley district: Mescatine, Rich Counry Swan Creek district: Victoria prospect.
Salvation-Hercules mines. Salt i,ake COlillty Big Cottonwood district: Alta Tunnel
Cilllah COlin (1' Brush Creek district: Little Alta mine. and Transportation Company, Carbonate, Cardiff
Utah CO/lllty Santaquin district: Union Chief mine. Kennebec. Eclipse, Reed and Benson, Silver Mountain
Washingtoll Coullt)' Silver Reef district: California, mines, Prince of Wales, Woodlawn mines; Bingham
Leeds, Requa, Savage, Tecumseh Hill mines. district: Boston Consolidated, Burning Moscow, Broad
Gauge, Brooklyn, Butterfield, Caledonia, Dalton and
CERUSSITE Lark, Galena, Jersey Blue, Last Chance, Midland, Monte-
zuma, Nast, Old Jordan, Old Telegraph, Petro, Red
Lead carbonate, PbC0 3 . Orthorhombic, Crystals often Wing, U. S. and Lark, Yosemite mines; Hot Springs dis-
tabular and elongated. Often granular massive and com- trict; Little Cottonwood district: Albion, Alta Consoli-
pact, earthy. H. 3 - 3.5. G. 6. 5. Cleavage good. Very dated, Cabin, Dwyer, Emma, Flagstaff, Little Emma,
brittle. Luster adamantine. Colorless to white, gray to Michigan-Utah, West Toledo mines.
black. Streak colorless to white. Transparent to trans- San JUall County Big Indian district: Mi Vida mine.
lucent. Sel'ier Coullty Salina Creek district: Lead Hill mine.
Beal'ef COlIllty Bradshaw district: Cave mine; Granite SWIllllit COWl(V Park City district: Comstock, Creole,
district: Beaver View, Big Pass mines; Indian Peak dis- Daly, Jupiter, Little Bell, Nail Driver, New York,
trict: Lincoln district: Creole mine; Pine Grove district; Ontario, Scottish Chief, Silver King, Woodside mines.
Pruess district: Gold Reef mine: San Francisco dis- Tooele County Blue Bell district: Black Hawk, Morgan
trict: Horn Silver mine; Star district: Cedar-Talisman, mines: Columbia district: Benmore, Sharp mines; Deep
Emerson, Gold CrO\vn. Hoosier Boy, Commonwealth, Creek Mountains; Dutch Mountain; Dugway district:
Kemple, Maud S., Progressive, St. Mary"s, Dotson, Bertha, Boston, Bryan, Buckhorn, Confidence, Four
Estelle, Mowitza, Vicksburg, Harrington-Hickory, Rebel, Metals, Francis, Kellys Hole, Lauris, Raymond - Bald
Sundown, White Rock, Hub, Mammoth, Moscow, Red Eagle, Yellow Jacket mines; Erickson district: Black
Warrior, Wild Bill mines, Woodhouse mines. Jack, Black Rock, Blain, Deer Trail, Good Hope, Happy
Box Elder CUI/II tl , Ashbrook district: Vipont mine; Jack, Indian Boy, Indian Chief, May Farmer mines;
Box Elder district: Lucin district: Cunepah Tunnel, Free Coinage district; Gold Hill district: Bonanza,
Copper Mountain, Judson, Tecoma Hill mines: New- Boston, Cash Boy, Garrison Monster, Gold Hill (U. S.),
foundland district: Promontory district: Big Pine,
Mascot, Monoco, Monte Del Rey, New Baltimore, Red
Lakeview, Sunshine Mining Properties; Rosebud district.
Jacket, Rube, Silver and Gold Mining Company, Silver
Cache Coullry Hyrum area - Tip Top claim; La Plata
King, Spotted Fawn, U. S. mines; Grantsville district:
area - Yellow Jacket claim; Paradise district; Smith-
Greeley district; Lakeside district; Mercur district:
field area.
Mineral Hill mine; North Tintic district: New Bullion,
Emery Cmlll(v San Rafael district: Copper Globe de- Scranton mines; Ophir district: Dry Canyon area -
posit. Brooklyn, Mono, Queen of the Hills mines; Lion Hill
iron COLIIl ty Escalante district: Escalan te mine. area - Buffalo, Chloride Point, Douglas, Lion, Zelia,
Juah COlIl1(J' Deseret district: Miller mine; Fish Springs East Side, Empire, Iron, Monarch, Northern Light,
district: Utah mines: Juab district; Mona district: Mt. Three Metals, Woodruff mines; Ophir Hill area - Admiral
Nebo district: Big Nebo, Eva, Freddie, Santaquin Chief, Dewey, Chicago, Cliff, Hidden treasure, Jim Fisk,
Santaquin King, Syndicate Tunnel mines: Tintic district: Sacramento mines: Osceola district; Rush Valley district:
Beck Tunnel, Bullion Beck, Chief, Chief Consolidated, Argent, Ben Harrison, Calument, Galena, Honerine,
Colorado, Eagle and Blue Bell, Eureka Hill, Gemini, Mescatine, Muerbrook, Salvation - Hercules, Southport
Godiva, Humbug, Iron Blossom, Mammoth, Sunbean1, mines; Silver Island district: Carrie Mack property;
Swansea mines; West Tintic district: 88, 1903, Scotia, Tooele district; Willow Springs district.
War Eagle mines. Uintah County Silver King mine.
Millard Co II II ty Church Hills: Stevens prospect. Leam- Utah County Alpine district: Alpine - Galena property;
60 Utah Geological and Mineral Survey, Bulletin 117, 1981
American Fork district: Dutchman, Miller, Pittsburgh Markey no. 3 mine; White Canyon district: Fry NO.4
mines; East Tintic district: Apex Standard, Burgin, mine, Happy Jack, Jomac, W. N. mines.
Eureka Bullion, Eureka Lily, Eureka Standard, North Sevier County Henry district: Trinity prospect.
Lily, Tintic Standard, Trixie mines; North Tintic dis- Summit County Park City district.
trict: Blowhole Hill, Lehi-Tintic, Tintic Empire, Tintic Tooele County Deep Creek Mountains: Cyclone, Leap
Paymaster, Selma mines: Payson district: Syndicate Year mines; Dugway district: Bertha, Four Metals,
mine; Provo district: Monarch mine; Santaquin district: Juno, Metal States mines; Gold Hill district: Alvarado,
Blue Eagle, Union Chief mines; Silver Lake district: Cyclone mines; Ophir district: Ophir Hill area - Ophir
Milkmaid, Ontario mines. Hill Consolidated, Ophir Coalition mines.
Wasatch County Blue Ledge district: Glencoe, McHenry, Utah Coullty East Tintic district.
Valeo mines; Elkhorn district: crawford, Nelson and Wayne Coullty Chimney Rock to Tantlus Flat; Fruita:
Queen mines; Snake Creek district: Revelator, West Oyler mine.
Quincy mines.
Washington County Tutsagubet district: Apex, Pay- CHALCEDONY
master mines. (See CRYPTOCRYSTALLINE QUARTZ)
Weber Coullty Sierra Madre district: Eldorado property.
CHALCOCITE
CERVANTITE
Cuprous sulfide, Cu,.,S. Orthorhombic. Short pris-
Antimony oxide, Sb 20 4 . Orthorhombic. Found in matic and tabular crYstals. Usually compact massive.
minute acicular crystals. Usually found as a massive H. 2. 5. G. 5. 5. Cleavage indistinct. Fracture conchoidal.
fibrous crust or powder. H. 4.5. G. 6.6. Luster greasy, Brittle. Imperfectly sectile. Luster metallic. Color and
pearly. Color yellow, white to reddish white. Streak light streak blachish lead-gray. Often tarnished blue or green.
yellow. Transparent. Opaque. One of the chief sources pf copper.
Salt Lake County Little Cottonwood district: Emma, Beaver Coun(y Beaver Lake district: Beaver-Harrison,
Little Emma mines. OK mines; San Francisco district: Horn Silver mine.
Box Elder County Ashbrook district: Vipont mine.
CHABAZITE Daggett County Red Creek: Yellow Canary uranium
deposit.
Hydrous calcium aluminum silicate, CaA1 Si 4 0 2" Davis County Farmington district: Parrish Canyon.
2 1
·6H 20. Hexagonal. Usually in crystals. Cleavage poor. Emery County San Rafael district: Blue Bird, Dexter
H. 4-5. G. 2. 1. Luster vitreous. Color white, yellow, Group mines.
pink, red. Transparent to translucent. Brittle. Grand County Seven Mile Canyon.
Pillte County Marysvale district: Silica Hills. Juab County Tintic district: Centennial Eureka, Grand
Salt Lake County Little Cottonwood district. Central mines.
Summit County Park City district. Millard County Church Hills: Stevens prospect.
Wasatch County Clayton Peak. Pillte COlln(y Ohio district: Tunnel Extension No. 2
mine.
CHALCANTHITE Salt Lake COUllty Big Cottonwood district: Mountain
Lake, Steamboat Tunnel mines; Bingham district: Bos-
Hydrous copper sulfate, CuS0 4 · 5H 2 0. Triclinic. ton Consolidated, Burning Moscow, Columbia, Com-
Crystals short prismatic, tlattened. Also massive, sta- mercial, Conger, Dixon, Fortune, Galena, Highland
lactitic, reniform. H. 2. 5. G. 2. 2. Cleavage poor. Frac- Boy, Last Chance, Minnie, Nast, Old Jordan, Old Tele-
ture conchoidal. Luster vitreous. Color berlin blue to sky graph, Phoenix, Winnamuch, Yampa mines.
blue. Streak colorless. Taste metallic and nauseous. San Juan County Big Indian district: Big Indian Copper,
Sub transparent to translucent. Mi Vida mines: Elk Ridge; La Sal Mountains; Monticello
Beaver County San Francisco district: Horn Silver mine. district: Copper Queen, Tuffy Copper mines; Monument
Emery County San Rafael district: Calf Mesa, Dexter Valley district: Whirlwind mine; Paradox Valley district:
group. Grey Dawn mine: Red Canyon district; White Canyon
Salt Lake County Bingham district: Bingham Copper pit, district: Happy Jack, Hideout, Jomac, Posey, W. N.
Broad Gauge, Galena, Old Jordan, Highland Boy, Yampa mines.
mines. Sevier County Salina district: Ball, Lead Hill mines.
San Juan County Elk Ridge; Red Canyon district: Summit County Park City district: Daly, Maytlower,
Minerals and Mineral Localities of Utah, Kenneth C. Bullock 61
mines. Tooele County Gold Hill district: Gold Hill (U. S.) mine.
Sepier COUllty Henry district: Trinity prospect. Salina Utah Count}' East Tintic district.
Creek district: Ball mine.
Summit COUllty Park City district: Daly, J .A.C. Tunnel, CHERT
Kearns-Keith, Mayflower mine, Ontario, Scottish Chief, (See CRYPTOCRYSTALLINE QUARTZ)
Silver King, Wabash. Woodside mines.
Tooele County Deep Creek Mountains: Cyclone, Devils CHEVKINITE
Pit, Eagles Nest, Laura, Leap Year, Midas, Monte de
Rey, Monocco, Oro del Rey mines; Dugway district: Titano-silicate of the cerium earths, Ce4Fe2 Ti(Si 20 7 )-
Bertha. Kellys Hole, New Park. Surplus mines; East 20S' Monoclinic. Crystals prismatic. Color black. Luster
Erickson district: Copper Jack. Flying Dutchman, splendent. Irre;jular fracture. Metamict crystals. G. 4. 5.
Hard-to-Beat, Sheep rock Canyons, Silver King, Silver Found in volcanic ash in Utah.
Shield mines; Erickson district: Highland Lassie no. 1, Grand County onion Creek.
Last Hope no. 3, Silver Reef mines; Gold Hill district:
Alvarado, Bonnemort, Cane Springs, Calaveras. Centen- CHLORARGYRITE (See CERARGYRITE)
nial and Enterprise, Copper Bloom, Copperopolis,
Copper Queen-Midland Mining Company, Cyclone, CHLORITE
Doctor, Frankie, Gold Hill (U. S.), Lucy L., Ida Lull,
Reaper, Rube, U. S., Victory no. I, Yellow Hammer Hydrous magnesium aluminum silicate. Mg 3(Si 4 0 \0)
mines; Granite Mountain district: Blue Bell, Cannon (OH)2'Mg 3(OH)6 essentially. Monoclinic. In pseudo-
Tank Canyon, Desert, EI Dorado, Mountain Queen hexagonal tabular crystals. Usually foliated massive
mines; Grantsville district; Mercur district: Mineral Hill or aggregates of minute scales. Cleavage perfect. Folia
mine; Ophir district: Dry Canyon area - Kearsarge, flexible but not elastic. H. 2-2.5. G. 2. 6-2.9. Luster
Mono, Surprise mines; Lion Hill area - Buffalo mine; vitreous to pearly. Color green of various shades.
Ophir Hill area - Cliff, Ophir Hill Consolidated, Ophir Beaver COUllty San Francisco district: Star district:
Coalition, Sacramento mines; Rush Valley district: Ben Harrington - Hickory, Rebel, White Rock mines.
Harrison, Calument, Galena King, Honerine, Muerbrook, Box Elder County Rosebud district.
Salvation-Hercules, Tip Top mines; Wild Cat Mountains: Davis Count)l Antelope Island.
Silver Queen mine; Yellow Springs district. Iron COUIl(V Paragonah: Iron Peak.
Utah Coullty American Fork district: Dutchman, Mary Juab Coullty West Tintic district: Tintic Western mine.
Ellena and Live Yankee. Yankee mines; East Tintic dis- Piute Coun(v Marysvale district.
trict Eureka Lily, Tintic Standard mines; Santaquin Salt Lake County Bingham district: Bingham Copper Pit.
district: Black Balsam, Copper Bullion, Sally Ann, San Juan Coullty Moses Rock dike.
Santaquin Central mines; Silver Lake district: Milkmaid, Summit Coullty Park City district.
Ontario mines. Tooele County Dugway district: Bertha, Boston, Four
Wasatch Coullty Blue Ledge district: Mayflower mine. Metals mines; East Erickson district: Ekker Canyon
Washington Coullty Silver Reef district. prospect; Gold Hill district: Gold Hill (U. S.), Rube
Wayne County Fruita: Oyler mine; Miners Mountain mines; Ophir district: Ophir Hill area - Ophir Hill
district. Consolidated, Ophir Coalition mines; Oquirrh Moun-
Weber County Fremont Island district; Sierra Madre tains: M;Jnning Canyon Shale; Stansbury Mountains:
district: Eldorado, King Solomon, Napoleon-Maghera Manning Canyon Shale.
mines. Utah Cowlty Beverly Hills: Manning Canyon Shale; Lake
Mountain: Manning Canyon Shale; Lehi district: Man-
CHALCOTRICHITE (See CUPRITE) ning Canyon Shale; Thorpe Hills: Manning Canyon
Shale; Wasatch Mountains: Manning Canyon Shale.
CHENEVIXITE Washington COUllty Mineral Mountain: Emma mine.
Basic hydrous arsenate of copper and ferric iron, prob-
ably CU2Fe2(AsO~2 (OH)4'H 20. Orthorhombic.
Compact earthy to opaline H. 3. 5-4. 5. G. 3. 9. Fracture CHLOROP AL (See NONTRONITE)
earthy. Brittle. Color dark green to greenish yellow.
Streak greenish yellow. CHLOR-UTAHLITE (See VARISCITE)
Juab County Tintic district: American Eagle, Mammoth
mines. CHROME MICA-CLAY
Minerals and Mineral Localities of Utah, Kenneth C Bullock 63
A green chrome mica-clay. Contains approximately 0.4 Shield mines; Erickson district: Higllland Lassie no. I
to 0.6 percent Cr203' and consists of mixed 2MI and mine: Gold Hill district: Calaveras, Frankie, Gold Hill
I M mica polymorphs. Occurs in thin veinlets.layers. and (U. S.), Gold Bond, Minnehaha, Monoco, Napoleon,
streaks in sandstone. Micaceous habit. Color green, or Silver King, Unadine, Victory no. I mines; Ophir dis-
gray -green. trict: Dry Canyon area.
FilleT]' Count)' San Rafael district: Flat Top Mesa, Washington County Mineral Mountain: Emma, Greger-
Temple Mountain, North Temple Mountain, Eagle son mines.
Nest prospect. Sou th Temple Mountain.
CHRYSOLITE (See OLIVINE)
CHROMITE
CIMOLITE
Iron chromate. FeCr204 Isometric. Crystals not com-
mon: massive: fine granular to compact. Cleavage none. Hydrous silicate of aluminum, AI 4 Si 9 0 24 ·6H 20.
Fracture uneven. Brittle. H. 5.5. G. 4.6. Luster metallic. Amorphous. Claylike or chalky. Very soft, G. 2.18-
Color black. Streak brown. Sometimes feebly magnetic. 2.30. Color white, gray white, reddish.
In Utall found only in placers. Utah County East Tintic district.
Grand Coull(r Colorado River area, Green River.
Sail Juan County Colorado River placers. CINNABAR
Uilltah Coullty Green River district: Cub Creek.
Mercuric sulfide, HgS. Hexagonal. Crystals usually
CHRYSOCOLLA rhombohedral or thick tabular. In crystalline incrusta-
tions, granular, massive, or as earthy coatings. H. 2-2.5
Hydrous copper silicate, CU2H2Si205(OH)4' Ortho- G. 8. Cleavage good, Slightly sectile. Luster adamantine
rhombic. Often Opal-like: massive compact, earthy. H. to metallic to dull. Color vermillion-red when pure,
2-4. G. 2-2. 4. Fracture conchoidal. Luster vitreous, brownish red when impure. Streak scarlet.
pearly. Color green, bluish green to sky blue, brown to Iron Coun(r Cima mine; Iron Springs district: Granite
black. Mountain, Iron Mountain.
BearCf Coullty Beaver Lake district: Beaver-Harrison, Piute COUllt)' Marysvale district; Quicksilver mine; Mt.
OK, Skylark mines: Granite district: Beaver View mine; Baldy district: Lucky Boy mine.
Lincoln district: Creole. Lincoln mines: San Francisco Tooele County Deep Creek Mountains: Congar Hill
district: Horn Silver mine; Star district: Wild Bill mine. mine; Gold Hill district; Grantsville district: Timpie
Box Elder COUll 0' Crater Island district: Copper Blos- Valley, Ruby Crystal mine; Mercur district: Golden
som mine; Lucin district: Copper Mountain, Parkdale Gate. Hillside. Mercur, Sacramento, Sparrowhawk,
mines: Newfoundland district: Copper Ridge. Sunshine mines.
Daris COIlIlt)' Antelope Island.
Garfield County Circle Cliffs: Rocky Mountain mine.
Gralld Cuunty Miners Basin district: Dewey, Higll Ore, CLAUDETITE
Skylark mines.
Juab Coullty Deseret district: Rockwell shaft: Tintic Arsenic trioxide, As 20 3 . Monoclinic. Prismatic crystals
district: Carissa. Dragon mines; West Tintic district: in thin plates and elongated. Flexible. H. 2~. G. 4.5.
88, 1903, Scotia, Tintic Western, War Eagle mines. Luster vitreous to pearly. Transparent. Colorless to
Millard COWIO' Church Hills: Stevens prospect. white.
MorKall Coullty Morgan district: Morgan Crescent mine. Utah Coullty East Tintic district.
Salt Lake Coullty Little Cottonwood district: Emma,
Little Emma mines. CLAUSTHALITE
Sail Juan Coullty La Sal Mountains; Monticello district:
Copper Queen mine. Lead selenide, PbSe. Isometric. Massive, commonly fine
Summit COllllty Park City district: Daly, Daly-Judge, granular, sometimes foliated. Cleavage good. Fracture
Little Bell, Scottish Chief, Silver King, Woodside mines. granular. H. 2. 5 - 3. G. 7. 8. Luster metallic. Color lead-
Tooele Coullty Deep Creek Mountains: Monocco mine. gray, somewhat bluish. Streak darker. Associated with
Dugway district: Belcher, Black Dragon. Black Maria. uranium and vanadium ores.
Bryan, Confidence, Kellys Hole, Metal States mines; East San Juan COUll ty Big Indian district: Mi Vida mine.
Erickson district: Copper Jack, Jessel Bezzel, Silver La Sal Quadrangle: Firefly-Pigmay mine.
64 Utah Geological and Mineral Survey, Bulletin 117, 1981
CLINOZOISITE COFFINITE
Hydrous calcium aluminum silicate, Ca2Al3Si30120H Hydrous uranous silicate, U(Si04>l_x (OH)4x' Tetra-
Monoclinic. Crystals are prismatic, columnar, also gonal. Found as aggregates or disseminations of tiny
massive granular. H. 6-6. 5. G. 3.3. Luster vit--reous. particles. Color black. Luster dull, Pulverulent to friable.
Color grayish white, green, pink. Transparent to trans- Fracture earthy. H. 5-6. G. 5.1. Not fluorescent.
lucent. Emery County Green River district: Denise no. 1 mine;
Beaver Coullty Bradshaw district; Lincoln district: San Rafael district: Calyx, Dirty Devil, Magor, Temple
Creole mine. Mountain, Vanura mines.
Minerals and Mineral Localities of Utah, Kenneth C. Bullock 65
Grand COllnty Beaver Mesa: Corvusite nos. 1-3 mines. A hydrocarbon. Color pale yellow, gray, brown. G.
Sail Juall COUIl(V Big Indian district: Big Buck, Cal 1.03. Associated with coal.
Uranium, Homestake, La Sal, Mi Vida, Radon, Rattle- Carbon County Tidewell and Rideout district: Winter
snake mines~ Elk Ridge: Avalanche No. 13, Horse- Quarters mine.
shoe No.1, King Edward, Oakie, Western Payday mines; Sevier Coullty Salina Canyon.
La Sal Quadrangle: Black Hat, Firefly-Pigmay mines.
Paradox Valley district: Grey Dawn, Vanadium Queen COPIAPITE
mines.
Hydrous basic iron magnesium sulfate, (Fe, Mg) Fe4
COLLOPHANE (S04)6(OH)2"20Hp. Triclinic. Small, brilliant plates,
stacked one upon another in large numbers forming
Hydrous calcium carbonate phosphate, Ca 1O(P0 4 )6- wormy or rod-like structures. Cleavage perfect. H. 2.
(CO 3) -H 20. Massive. Cryptocrystalline apatite, or 5 - 3. G. 2. 1. Color yellow to bronzy brown. Luster
organic origin. Opaline or horn-like; with dense, layered pearly. Transparent to translucent.
or colloform structure, H. 3-4. G. 2. 7. Luster weakly Emery County San Rafael district: Dexter group.
vitreous to dull. Color grayish white, yelIow, or brown. Utah County East Tintic district.
Associated with fish scales in the Green River Forma-
tion found in the Phosphoria Formation. COPPER
Daggett COlln(J' Uinta Mountains.
Duchesne County Green River Formation; Uinta Moun- Native copper, Cu. Isometric. Occurs in cubic, dode-
tains. cahedral, or tetrahexahedral forms, often disorted; also
Uintah COlll1(V Brush Creek; Frandson Canyon; Little massive. H. 2. 5. G. 9. Cleavage none. Fracture hackly.
Brush Creek; Rock Creek. Highly ductile and malleable. Luster metallic. Color
Utah Count)' East Tintic district. copper red. Streak metallic and shining. Opaque.
Beaver County Beaver Lake district: Skylark mine;
CONICHALCITE San Francisco district: Imperial mine.
Box Elder Coullfy Ashbrook district: Vipont mine;
Basic calcium copper arsenate, CaCu(As0 4 )(OH). Lucin district: Copper Mountain mine.
Orthorhombic. Crystals equant or short prismatic. Juab Coullty Tintic district: Carissa, Centennial Eureka
Fibrous. Usually reniform and massive. Resembles mines.
malachite. H. 4. 5. G. 4. 3. Fracture uneven. Brittle. Morgall County Morgan district: Morgan Crescent mine.
Luster vitreous to greasy. Color green, yellow green. Salt Lake Coullty Bingham district: Commercial, High-
Streak green. land Boy, Yampa mines; Little Cottonwood district:
Juah Count)' Tintic district: American Eagle, Carissa, Native Copper mine.
Centennial Eureka, Gold Chain mines; West Tintic San Juan County San Juan River; White Canyon dis-
district: Scotia mine. trict: White Canyon no. 1 mine.
Millard COUll t)' Church Hills: Stevens prospect. Tooele County Dugway district: Buckhorn, Four Metals
Tooele COl/llty Deep Creek Mountains: Fortuna, Probert mines; Ophir district: Dry Canyon Area - Mono mine.
mines; Gold Hill district: Frankie, Gold Hill (Western Utah County East Tintic district.
Utah). Pole Star Copper Company mines. Washingtoll COUllty Tutsagubet district: Apex (Dixie)
UTah COl/llfY East Tintic district. mine.
CORDIERITE CORVUSITE
Magnesium iron aluminum silicate, (Mg,Fe)2AI4Si5018' Hydrous oxide of vanadium, V 204'6V 203 'nH 2 0. Mas-
Orthorhombic. Crystals usually short prismatic pseudo- sive. H. 2.5-3. G. 2.S. Fracture conchoidal. Color and
hexagonal twins. Also as imbedded grains and massive. streak blue - black to brown. Opaque.
Cleavage poor. H. 7 - 7. 5. G. 2. 6. Luster vitreous. Emery County San Juan district: North Mesa Nos. 1,2,
Color different shades of blue. Transparent to trans- and 5 mines. San Rafael district: Calyx, Rex no. 2,
lucent. Temple Mountain mines, Temple Rock, South Temple
Utah County Silver Lake district: Deer, Silver Creeks. Wash.
Gralld County La Sal district: Jack claim; Thompsons
CORKITE district: Parco no. 23, Juniper mines.
Sail Juan Coullty Elk Ridge: Notch Nos. 5 and 6 mines;
Basic sUlfate-phosphate of lead and ferric iron, PbFe3- La Sal Quadrangle: Black Hat, Evening Star, Firefly-
(P0 4 ) (SO~ (OH)6' Hexagonal. H. 3.5. G. 4.3. Cleav- Pigmay, Hesperus, Little Peter, Valley View, Yellow Bird
age perfect. Color dark green, yellowish green to pale mines; Monument Valley district: Mitten no. 1 mine;
yellow. Luster vitreous to resinous. Occurs in gossans Paradox Valley district: Grey Dawn, Vadadium Queen
with limonite. mines.
Beaver County Star district: Harrington-Hickory, Rebel,
White Rock, Wild Bill mines. COSALITE
Topaz Mountain, San Pitch Mountains, and West Tintic Cache County Logan area.
district areas (chalcedony, jasper). Dal'is County Farmington district: Morning Star group.
Kane County Kanab (silicified wood); Kitchen Corral Juab County Detroit district: Charm, Copperhead,
Canyon (chalcedony); Orderville (agate, silicified wood). E. P. H., Ibex mines; Mt. Nebo district: Eva mine; Tintic
Millard Couwv Detroit district (chalcedony, jasper). district: Boss Tweed, Carissa, Centennial Eureka mines.
Rich County Bear River Range (jasper). Kane COUII(f Paria Mining Company mine.
Sail Juan County White Canyon district (chalcedony). Millard County Detroit district: Almond, Blue Bell,
Sevier County Glenwood, Henry district areas (chal· Major Drum mines.
cedony). Morgan COlln(V Morgan district: Morgan Crescent mine.
Tooele Coullty Amatrice Hill, Deep Creek Mountains, Salt Lake Coullty Big Cottonwood district: Copper King
and Gold Hill district areas (agate, chalcedony); Dugway mine: Bingham district: Galena, Old Jordan, Highland
Mountains (agate geodes); Blue Bell district, Mercur Boy, Yampa mines.
district, and Ophir district areas (jasper). Sail Juan County Big Indian distirct: Big Indian Copper
Utah Coullty Two miles west of Alpine (jasper); East mine; Lisbon Valley: Climax nos. 1-2, Lisbon Copper
Tintic district, North Tintic district, and Utah district mines.
areas (jasper); Wasatch Mountains (chert). Summit COllnty Park City district: Daly-Jude mine.
Washington Coullty Beaver Dam Wash, and Castle Tooele County Dugway district: Black Dragon, Buck-
Cliffs areas (agate, silicified wood), central (chalcedony horn, Four Metals mines, Kellys Hole; Gold Hill district:
in basalts); Silver Reef district (jasper, silicified wood). Pole Star Copper Company mine; Ophir district: Ophir
Wayne County Fruita, Hanksville and Torrey areas Hill area - Hidden Treasure, Sacramento mines.
(agate, jasper, silicified bone and wood). Utah County East Tintic district; Santaquin district:
Sally Ann prospect.
CRYPTOMELANE Washington County Silver Reef district: Tutsagubet
district: Apex (Dixie) mine.
Potassium manganese oxide, K(Mn 2+, Mn4+)8016'
Tetragonal. H. 6-6)6. G. 4.3. Occurs in slaggy, cavernous CUPROADAMITE (See ADAMITE)
masses. Color dull black on the outside, blue gray on
fresh surfaces. Psilomelane type mineral. CUPROBISMUTITE
Utah Coullty East Tintic district: Burgin mine. Lehi
district: West Slope area - Wildcat mine. Copper bismuth sulfide, CU6Bi8S15' Monoclinic. Similar
to but not dimorphous with emplectite. G. 6.35. Occurs
CUBANITE as small bladed intergrowths.
Piute County Ohio district: Tunnel Extension No. 2
Copper iron sulfide, CuFe2S3' Orthorhombic. Elongated mine.
and thick tabular crystals. Massive, H. 3. 5. G. 4. I.
fracture conchoidal, Strongly magnetic. Color brass to CUPRODESCLOIZITE
bronze-yellow. Streak black. Opaque. (See DESCLOIZITE)
Salt l~ake Coullty Bingham district: Dixon, Winnamuck
mines. CUPROGOSLARITE
Utah Count)' East Tintic district: North Lily mine.
Hydrous zinc copper sulfate, (Zn,Cu)S04·7H20.
CUPRITE Orthorhombic. Usually in efforescent crusts, or stala-
gmitic with fibrous structures. Massive. Granular or
Cuprous oxide. CU20. Isometric. Crystals octahedral, fibrous. H. 2-2)6. G. 1.98. Color bluish.
cubic, or dodecahedral. Also massive, granular, or Utah COUIl(V East Tintic district.
earthy. H. 3 . 5 - 4. G. 6. 1. Fracture conchoidal to
uneven. Brittle. Luster metallic - adamantine. Color
red of various shades. Streak brownish red. CUPROPLUMBITE (See BALYDONITE)
Bem'Cr County Beaver Lake district: Skylark mine;
Bradshaw district: Cave mine; San Francisco district: CUPROSCHEELITE
Imperial mine. (See CUPROTUNGSTITE)
Box Elder Coullty Ashbrook district: Vipont mine;
Lucin district: Copper Mountain mine. CUPROSKLODOWSKITE
Minerals and Mineral Localities of Utah, Kenneth C. Bullock 69
DAUBREEITE DESCLOIZITE
An earthy oxychloride of bismuth, BiO(OH,CI). Tetra- Basic vanadate of lead, copper, zinc, (Zn, Cu) Pb(V0 4)
gonal. Found only massive; compact, earthy, columnar (OH). Orthorhombic. Small, short prisms. Often drusy;
to platy fibrous. Cleavage good. Very plastic. H. 2 - 2. 5. also massive, fibrous radiated with a mammillary surface.
G. 7. 7. Luster greasy to silky. Color creamy-white, H. 3 - 3 . 5. G. 6. 2. Fracture conchoidal to uneven.
gray, yellowish brown. Brittle. Luster greasy. Color cherry red, brownish red,
Juab County Tintic district: Eagle, Blue Bell mines. brown, black. Streak brownish red or yellowish.
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Hydrous aluminum silicate, AI 2Si 20S(OH)4 -4H 2 0. district: Big Pass, Burnt Hollow, Contact, Garnet, Molly,
Monoclinic. Usually in c1aylike masses, either compact Oak, Oak Basin, Rattler, Scheelite, Ward groups; Lincoln
or friable. Perfect cleavage. H. 2. G. 2. 6. Color usually district; Star district: Lady Bryan mine.
white. Hydrothermal alteration product. Box Elder Coullty Grouse Creek Range; Rosebud
Utah COUI/O' East Tintic district: Larson clay pits, North district.
Lily mine; Fox Hills. Dm'is Coullty Antelope Island.
Garfield Coullty Henry Mountains: Bromide, Oro mines.
ENGLISHITE Juab County West Tintic district: Iron King, Lockheed
Iron, Tintic Western mines.
Hydrous basic phosphate of potassium, calcium, and Salt Lake County Big Cottonwood district: Mountain
aluminum of uncertain fOffilUla. perhaps K2Ca4AIS Lake mine; Little Cottonwood district: Patsey Marley
(P04)S(OH)10-9H:p. Probably monoclinic. Occurs mine.
as layers and aggregates of subparallel plates. Cleavage Sevier County Henry district: Trinity prospect.
perfect, micaceous. Flexible. H. 3. G. 2. 6. Colorless Summit Coull(Y Park City district.
and transparent. Luster vitreous, pearly. Tooele Coun(r Gold Hill district: Doctor, Fraction
Utah County Clay Canyon. Frankie, Gold Bond, Lucy L., Reaper mines; Ophir dis-
trict: Ophir Hill area - Cliff, Hidden Treasure, Ophir
ENSTATITE Hill Consolidated, Ophir Coalition mines; Rush Valley
district: Honerine mine.
Magnesium silicate, MgSi0 3 . Orthorhombic. Distinct Utah County Silver Lake district: Milkmaid mine,
crystals rare, prismatic habit. Usually massive, fibrous, Silver Creek.
or lemellar. Cleavage prismatic. Fracture uneven. Brittle. Weber County Sierra Madre district.
H. 5. 5. G. 3.2. Luster pearly to vitreous. Color grayish,
yellowish, greenish white, olive-green and brown. EPSOMITE
Juab County West Tintic district.
Tooele COllll(r Gold Hill district. Hydrous magnesium sulfate, MgS0 4 -7H 20. Orthor-
hombic. Usually as long fibers in bunches of fibrous
EPHESITE crusts. H. 2 - 2. 5. G. 1. 6. Cleavage good. Fracture
conchoidal. Luster vitreous, silky, earthy. Colorless
Hydrous sodium lithium aluminum silicate, belonging in pure crystals, white in massive aggregates. Very solu-
to the margarite group, Na(LiAI 2) (AI 2 Si 2)OlO(OH)2' ble.
Monoclinic. Crystals indistinct. H. 3Yz-4Yz. G. 2.9S. Beaver County Gordon district: Sulphurdale; San Fran-
Laminae brittle. Pink color. Translucent. Vitreous to cisco district: Frisco Contact mine.
pearly luster. Emery Coun ty Castle Dale; Castle Valley.
Salt Lake County Big Cottonwood district: Big Cotton- Garfield County Coyote Creek district: Hampton mine.
wood, Mountain Lake mines. Sanpete Counry Manti.
Utah Coullty East Tintic district.
EPIDESMINE
ERINITE
Hydrous calcium sodium aluminum silicate. (Ca,Na, K)3-
AIS(AL Si) Si 140 40 -1SHp. Orthorhombic. Occurs Basic copper arsenate, CuS (OH)4 (As0 4 )2' Orthor-
in minute crystals. G. 2. 2. Cleavage good. Colorless to hombic probably. In mammilliary crystalline groups.
yellow. Found in lava flows. Cleavage good. H. 4. 5. G. 4. Fracture conchoidal.
Tooele County Rush Valley district: Soldier Creek. Luster dull, resinous. Color dark green to emerald green.
Juab Counry Tintic district: American Eagle, Centennial
EPIDOTE Eureka, Mammoth mines.
F ARATSlHITE
FERROLUDWIGITE (See LUDWIGlTE)
Hydrous aluminum iron silicate, (AI,Fe)2Si20 5(OH)4'
Monoclinic. Intermediate between kaolinite and chloro- FERROPALLIDITE
pal. In microscopic hexagonal plates. Soft. G. 2. Color (See SZOMOLNOKITE)
pale yellow.
Utah Coullty East Tintic district. FERROSELITE
monoclinic. Occurs in parallel fibrous aggregates. Color Monte Cristo, Moscow, Quartzite, North Virginia Ex-
golden brown. Luster brilliant. Cleavage not apparent. tension, Virginia nos. 1-5, Wild Bill mines; Washington
district: Blue Bell, Cougar Spar, Doughout (Dugout),
G. 3. 3.
Grand Co III In' Polar Mesa district. J. B., Lost Sheep, Noonday, Utah mines.
Grand Coullty Blue Spar property; Miners Basin district:
Dewey, High Ore mines; Ryan Creek Scheelite prospect.
FIBROFERRITE
lroll C01111(1' Escalante district: Escalante mine; Gold
Hydrous basic ferric sulfate, Fe(S04) (OH)·5H:p. Springs district: Homestake mine.
Orthorhombic. Occurs as fine fibrous crusts and masses. Juab Coullty Deep Creek Mountains: Apex, Mary,
botryoidal, radial fibrous. H. 2. 5. G. 2. Cleavage basal. Trout Creek mines: Deseret district, Dugway Range;
Luster silky to pearly. Color pale yellow. yellowish Fish Springs district: Carnation, Emma, Galena, Utah
mines; Honeycomb Hills; Indian Creek; Thomas Range:
green to pale green.
Emery COllllty Green River: 30 miles southwest; San Autunite no. 8, Buena no. J, Good Will, Yellow Chief
Rafael district: Dexter group. mines; Spor Mountain: Bell Hill, Blowout, Claybank,
Blue Chalk, Hogsback, Northend, Rainbow, Roadside,
FLUELLlTE Dell no. I, Dell no. 5, Evening Star, Floride, Floride no.
5. Fluorine Queen, Fluorine Queen no. 4, Green Crystal,
Hydrous aluminum phosphate, AI 2PO 4 F 20H · 7H 20. Harrisite, Hilltop, Lost Sheep, Lost Soul, Lucky Louie,
Orthorhombic. Cleavage indistinct. H. 3. G. 2. 7. Luster Monella, Oversight, Rainbow no. 2, Thursday mines;
vitreous. Colorless to white. Transparent. Topaz Mountain; Trout Creek: West Tintic district:
Piute COl/nty Marysvale district: Freedom no. 2, Pros- 88. J 903 mines.
pector no. J mines. Millard Coullty Gordon district: Rain Bow mine; South
Pavant Range: Cove Fort, Dog Valley.
Piute Coullty Gold Mountain district: Annie Laurie,
FLUORAPATITE
Keystone, Sevier mines; Marysvale district: Buddy, Bul-
Calcium fluorine phosphate, Ca5(P04)3F. Hexagonal. lion Monarch, Fluorite, Freedom no. 1-2, LaVita,
Cleavage indistinct. Fracture conchoidal. Brittle. H. 5. Prospector no. 1 mines; Mt. Baldy district: Deer Trail
G. 3. J. Luster vitreous. Color sea - green, pale blue, mine; Ohio district: Bully Boy, Great Western, Sham-
colorless. brownish. Occurs as an authigenic mineral in rock and Webster mines.
the Green River and Phosphoria Formations. Sail Juan Coullty Big Indian district: Mi Vida mine.
DaKgetl COIlI1(1' Uinta Mountains. Sevier County Henry district: La Veta prospect.
Duchesne COUIlt!' Green River Formation; Uinta Moun- Summit County Park City district: Silver King, Woods-
Magnesium variety of olivine, Mg 2 Si0 4 . Orthorhombic. Peacock Copper, Washington mines; Star district:
In small equidimensional or tabular crystals. Usually in Dotson, Hoosier Boy, Hub, Moscow, Red Warrior,
imbedded grains or in granular masses. H. 6 - 7. G. 3. 2. Vicksburg. White Rock, Wild Bill mines.
Fracture conchoidal. Luster vitreous. Color olive to gray- Box Elder COlillty Ashbrook district: Vipont mine; Box
ish green and brown, also white and yellow. Elder district; Lucin district: Cenepah Tunnel, Copper
Sal! Lake COUIl!Y Big Cottonwood district: Big Cotton- Mountain, Tecoma Hill mines; Newfoundland district;
wood, Mountain Lake, Steamboat Tunnel mines; Little Park Valley district: Century, Susannah mines; Rosebud
Cottonwood district: Alta mine, Alta and Clayton Peak district: A & W, Magnitude, Mogul mines; Willard
stocks con tact zone. district: Consolidated group, Louise Consolidated mine,
Ogden Boilmakers, Silver Queen mines.
FOSHAGlTE Cache County Hyrum area: Lucky Star. Tip Top claims;
La Plata area: La Plata, Sunrise claims; Logan area;
Hydrous calcium silicate, Ca4Si309(OH)2' Mono- Paradise district: Richmond district.
clinic. A zeolite. Occurs in compact fibrous masses. G. 2. Davis County Wandering Jew mine.
4. Color white. Luster silky. Emery COlllI(V Emery district; San Rafael district:
SaIl Lake Coullty Bingham district: Bingham Copper Calyx, Delta, Dirty Devil, Lucky Strike, Temple Moun-
Pit. tain mines, Dexter group, Lucky Strike no. 2 mines.
Grand County Richardson district; Ryan Creek Scheelite
FOURMARIERITE prospect.
Iron COlll1(V Escalante district: Escalante mine; Iron
Hydrous lead uraninate PbU 4 0 13 ·4H 20. Orthorhom- Springs district: Granite Mountain, Iron Mountain.
bic. Crystals tabular and elongated. H. 3 - 4. G. 6. Juab CoulllY Deep Creek Mountains: Johnson Canyon
Cleavage basal. Luster adamantine. Color red to golden prospects; Deseret district: Miller mine; Detroit dis-
red and brown. Transparent. trict: Utah mine; Juab district; Mona district; Mt. Nebo
Emery Coullty San Rafael district: Delta, Lucky Strike, district: Ajaxto no. 2, Big Nebo, Blackett Tunnel, Eva,
Lucky Strike no. 2 mines. Freddie, Highland, Santaquin Chief, Santaquin King,
Snydicate mines; North Tintic district: Tintic Prince
FRA~COLITE (See FLUORAPATITE) mine; Tintic district: Black Dragon, Beck Tunnel,
Bullion Beck, Centennial Eureka, Chief Consolidated,
FRElBERGITE Colorado, Dragon, Eagle and Blue Bell, Eureka Hill,
Gemini, Godiva, Grand Central, Humbug, Iron Blossom,
Argentian tetralledrite. Tetrahedral. Groups of crystals, Lower Mammoth, Mammoth, May Day, Sioux, Swansea,
massive, or compact. Cleavage none. Fracture sub- Victoria mines; Spring Creek district: Queen of Sheba
conchoidal to uneven. H. 3 - 4. 5. G. 4. 6 - 5. 1. Luster mine; West Tintic district: 88, 1903, Pyramid, Scotia,
metallic. Color flint-gray to cherry red. War Eagle mines.
Sal! /,ake Coullty Bingham district: Silver Shield mine. Millard County Leamington district: Arbroath, Leaming-
Utah C()IIIl~)' East Tintic district. ton Mining Company, Wood Canyon, Yellowstone
mines; Saw Back district.
GALENA Morgan County Argenta district: Carbonate Hill, Car-
bonate Gem mines.
Lead sulfide, PbS. Isometric. Commonly in cubes. Also Piute County Gold Mountain district: Annie Laurie
massive, cleavable, coarse or fine granular. H. 2. 5. mine; Mt. Baldy district: Crystal, Deer Trail. Pluto
G. 7. 6. Cleavage cubic. Luster metallic. Color and mines; Ohio district: Bully Boy and Webster, Cascade,
streak lead-gray. Opaque. Copper Belt, Great Western, Iris, Shamrock mines.
Beaver County Antelope district; Beaver Lake district: Rich County Swan Creek district: Victoria prospect.
Galena mine; Bradshaw district: Cave, Hecla, Nip and Salt Lake County Big Cottonwood district: Alta Tunnel
Tuck mines; Granite district: Beaver View, Big Pass, and Transportation Company, American Metals, Big
Burnt Hollow mines; Indian Peak district; Lincoln dis- Cottonwood, Carbonate, Cardiff, Columbus-Rexall,
trict: Creole, Lincoln mines; McGarry district; Newton Howell-Baby McKee, Kennebec, Lulu, Maxfield, Prince
district; Indian Creek; Pine Grove district: Pine Grove of Wales, Reed and Benson, Silver Mountain, Tar Baby,
Associates mine; Pruess district: Gold Reef, Indian Woodlawn mines; Binghanl district: Boston Consoli-
Queen mines; San Francisco district: Beaver Carbonate, dated, Brooklyn, Burning Moscow, Butterfield, Cale-
Cupric, Horn Silver, Imperial, King David, Michigan, donia, Colorado, Conger, Dalton and Lark, Dixon, Eagle
76 Utah Geological and Mineral Survey, Bulletin 11 7, 1981
Bird, Fortune, Frisco, Galena, Highland Boy, Jersey Osceola district; Rush Valley district: Argent, Ben
Blue, Midland, Montezuma, Nepture, Old Jordan, Old Harrison, Calumet, Galena King, Honerine, Mescatine,
Telegraph, Petro. Phoenix, Queen, Queen Lode, Red Muerbrook, Salvation - Hercules, Tip Top mines; Silver
Wing, Silver Shield, Tiewaukee, U. S. and Lark, Win- Island district: Carrie Mack property; Tooele district;
namuck, Yampa. York, Yosemite mines; Hot Springs Willow Springs district.
district; Little Cottonwood district: Albion, Cabin, Uintalz Coullty Bassett mine,
Columbus Consolidated and Wasatch Drainage Tunnel, Utah Counry Alpine district: Alpine-Galena, Lucky
Columbus-Rexal, Dwyer, Emma, Flagstaff, Little Emma, Chance mines; American Fork district: Bay State, Bog,
Michigan - Utah. Peruvian Consolidated, South Hecla, Dutchman, Mary Ellen, Live Yankee, Miller, Pacific,
Superior mines. Pittsburgh, Silver Dipper, Water Fall, Yankee mines; East
Sail Juan C(JUII ty Big Indian district: Mi Vida mine; Tintic district: Apex Standard, Burgin, Eureka Bullion,
Elk Ridge: Notch Nos. 5 and 6, Payday mines; La Sal Eureka Lily, Eureka Standard, Iron King, North Lily,
Quadrangle: Firefly-Pigmay mine; Monticello district: Tintic Standard, Trixie mines; North Tintic district:
Blue Bird, Copper Queen, Danish Girl, Gold Queen Blowhole Hill, Lehi Tintic, Tintic Empire, Tintic Pay-
mines; Paradox Valley district: Grey Dawn mine; White master mines; Payson district: Nelson, Snydicate mines;
Canyon district: Happy Jack mine. Provo district: Monarch mine; Santaquin district: Union
Sanpete Count)! Dry Canyon Chief mine; Silver Lake district: Milkmaid, Ontario
Sel'ier County Henry district: Trinity prospect; Salina mines.
Creek district: Ball, Lead Hill mines. Wasatch County Blue Ledge district: Glencoe, May-
Summit County Marble district; Park City district: flower, McHenry, Valeo mines; Elkhorn district: Craw-
American Flag, California, Comstock, Creole, Daly, ford, Nelson and Queen mines; Snake Creek district:
Daly West, Jupiter, Kearns - Keith, Little Bell, May- Revelator, West Quincy mines.
flower Nail Driver, New York, Ontario, Scottish Chief, Wayne County Miners Mountain district.
Silver King, Silver King Consolidated, Woodside mines. Weber County Fremont Island district; Sierra Madre
Tooele Coullty Bingham district: May Flower mine; Blue district: Eldorado property; Weber district: New
Bell, district: Bennion Canyon, Black Hawk, Bogan, Azurite, Standard Mining Company mines.
Hidden Splendor, Morgan mines; Columbia district:
Sharp, Benmore, Sultana mines; Deep Creek Mountains: GARNET GROUP
Cyclone, Devils Pit, Eagles Nest, Gold Star, Leap Year,
Midland, Monoco, Monte del Rey, North Pass, Oro del The group includes a number of important subspecies
Rey, Overland, Silver Queen, Willow Springs mines, which conform to the general formula A 3B 2(Si0 4 )3'
Dutch Mountain; Dugway district: Bertha, Bryan, (A = calcium, magnesium, ferrous iron, or divalent
Buckhorn, Bullion Canyon, Four Metals, Francis, Kellys manganese; B = aluminum, ferric iron, titanium, or
Hole. Lauris, Raymond - Bald Eagle mines; East Erick- chromium). Isometric. Common forms are dode-
son district: Dutch Peak, Indianapolis, Tintic-Delaware cahedrons and trapezohedrons. Also in ground grains,
mines; Erickson district: Black Joe, Black Rock, Blain, massive granular, coarse or fine. H. 6. 5-7.5. G. 3.5-4.3.
Deer Trail, Indian Boy, May Farmer, Good Hope, Indian Luster vitreous to resinous. Color varying with com-
Chief, Last Hope no. 3, Utonia mines; Free Coinage position; mostly red, brown, yellow, white, green, black.
district; Gold Hill district: Alvarado, Bonanza, Cash Boy, Transparent to translucent. Grossularite is the most
Christmas Mining Company Climax, Copper Queen- common garnet in Utah and occurs in contact meta-
Midland Mining Company, Cyclone, Garrison Monster, morphic zones in crystalline limestones.
Gold Belt, Gold Hill (U. S.). Gold Hill Standard, Mono- Beal'er County Beaver Lake district: Bat Ridge, Skylark
co, New Baltimore, Reaper, Red Jacket, Rube, Silver mine; Bradshaw district: 2 R's group; Granite district:
and Gold Mining Company, Spotted Fawn, Success, Big Pass, Contact, Molly, Oak, Oak Basin, Rattler,
Unadine mines; Granite Mountain district: Blue Bell, Scheelite, Ward groups; Lincoln district: Creole mine;
Cannon Tank Canyon, Desert, EI Dorado, Mountain Pine Grove district: Pine Grove Associates mine; Pruess
Queen mines; Grantsville district; Johnson Pass; Lakeside district: Cactus Gulch, Copper Gulch; Rocky district:
district; Mercur district: Mineral Hill mine; North Tintic Bawana, Copper Ranch, Old Hickory mines; San Fran-
district: New Bullion, Scranton mines; Ophir district: cisco district: Cupric mine; Star district: Common-
Dry Canyon area - Kearsarge, Mono, Queen of the Hills, wealth, Copper King, Kemple, Progressive, St. Mary's,
Surprise mines; Lion Hill area - Buffalo mine; Ophir Hill Wild Bill mines; Washington district; Orizaba Consoli-
area - Admiral Dewey, Cliff, Hidden Treasure, Ophir Hill dated mine, Lucero claim.
Consolidated, Ophir Coalition, Sacramento mines; Box Elder County Dove Creek; Rosebud district.
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Dal'is Coullty Antelope Island. Lead antimony arsenic sulfide, Pb 5SbAsS S ' Mono-
iroll County Gold Springs district: Homestake mine. clinic. Crystals rare. Massive, granular. H. 2.5. G. 6.3.
Juab Coullty Dugway Range; Thomas Range: Topaz Cleavage good. Fracture uneven. Luster metallic. Color
Mountain; Tintic district: Carissa mine; Spring Creek and streak lead - gray to grayish blue. Opaque.
district: Queen of Sheba mine; West Tintic district: Iron Juah County Tintic district: Colorado mine.
King. Tintic Western mines. SUlJlmit County Park City district: Silver King mine.
'dillard County House Range: Amasa Valley, Horseshoe,
Mt. Baldy, New Klondike, Pine Peak, Pinke Peak. GEL-BERTRANDITE
Rainbow, South. South Pit, Side springs mines. Notch (See BERTRANDITE)
Peak. Painter Springs; Saw Back district.
Piu!c COZIIIO' Gold Mountain district. GERSDORFFITE
Salt Lake COUIl!y Big Cottonwood district: Mountain
Lake mine; Bingham district; Little Cottonwood district: Nickel arsenic sulfide, NiAsS. Isometric. Octahedral,
Alta. South Hecla mines, Alta and Clayton Peak stocks pyritohedral crystals; sometimes striated as in pyrite;
contact zone. lamellar and granular massive. Cleavage perfect. Fracture
Sail Juan County Chinle Wash; Comb Ridge; Moses uneven. H. 5.5. G. 5.9. Luster metallic. Color silver-
Rock; Mule Ear; Navjo Reservation. white to steel gray, often tarnished gray or grayish black.
Sevier Cnunty Henry district: Trinity prospect. Streak grayish black. Opaque.
Summit County Bonanza Flat; Park City district: Jupiter San Juan County White Canyon district: Happy Jack
mine. mine.
Tooele COllllt}' Deep Creek Mountains: Midas mine;
Dugway district; Gold Hill district: Alvarado. Calaveras, GIBBSITE
Cane Springs, Copperopolis, Doctor, Fraction Lode,
Frankie, Lucy L., Ida Lull mines; Granite Mountain Aluminum hydroxide, Al(OH)3' Monoclinic. Spheroidal
district: Blue Bell mine; Ophir district: Ophir Hill area - concretions, incrustations, or earthy masses. H. 3. G.
Chicago. Hidden Treasure, Ophir Hill Consolidated, 2.3. Luster pearly. In hydrothermal alteration zones of
Ophir Coalition mines; Rush Valley district: Settlement ore deposits.
Canyon. Soldier Creek. Millard County Church Hills: Stevens prospect.
Utah Coullty Silver Lake district: Deer Creek, Milkmaid Tooele County Oquirrh Mountains: Manning Canyon
mine. Silver Creek. Shale; Stansbury Mountains: Manning Canyon Shale.
Wasatch COllnty Bonanza Flat; Snake Creek district. Utah Count)' Beverly Hills: Manning Canyon Shale; East
Weher Coullty Ogden Canyon; Sierra Madre district; Tintic district; Lake Mountain: Manning Canyon Shale;
Strongs Canyon. Lehi district: Manning Canyon Shale; Thorpe Hills:
Manning Canyon Shale; Wasatch Mountains: Manning
GARRELSITE Canyon Shale.
DaJ'is COllllt]' Shores of Great Salt Lake. Rob Roy mine; Pruess district: Gold Reefmine.
5,'alt rake COllllt!' Shores of Great Salt Lake. Box Elder County Ashbrook district: Vipont mine;
Tooele COllllt)' Shores of Great Salt Lake. Dove Creek; Lucin district: Copper Mountain, Tecoma
Hill mines; Park Valley district: Century, Susannah
GLAUCONITE mines; Promontory district: Lakeview mine: Rosebud
district: Mogul mine, Red Buttes; Willard district:
Essentially a hydrous silicate of iron and potassium. Overland claim.
(K,Na) (Al.Fe,Mg)2(AI,Si)401O(OH)2' Monoclinic. H. 2. Cache County Hyrum area: Moon claim.
G. 2.4-2.9. Considerable variation in composition. Dagf{ett Count)' Red Creek: Yellow Canary uranium
Probably occurs in both colloidal and crystalline forms. deposit.
USUJlly amorphous. Resembles chlorite. Color dull Dal'is County Farmington district: Morning Star mine,
green. Found in ocean sediments near the continental Parrish Canyon.
shores. Found in the Cambrian Ladore Formation, and Emcr}' COl/llty Emery district; southern part of County.
Jurassic Curtis Formation. Garfield County Colorado River district: Dirty Devil
DaglZctt Count)" Uinta Mountains. River south to Lake Canyon; Henry Mountains: Bro-
Uintalz C01tIlt)' Eastern Uinta Mountains; Split Moun- mide, Crescent Creek, south flank of Mount Ellen,
tain; North of Vernal. Cuprum, Oro mines.
Grand County Bald Mesa; Colorado River area: Dolores
GOETHITE River south to Amasa Back; Miners Basin district:
Hydrogen iron oxide, HFeO,. Orthorhombic. Rarely in Dillon, M. I. F. mines, Placer Creek, Tornado deposit;
distinct crystals, often flattened. In acicular crystals. Salt Valley; Wilson Mesa.
Also massive, reniform, stalactitic in radiating fibrous Iron County Gold Springs district: Aetna, Homestake,
aggregate~. Cleavage good. H. 5-5.5. G. 4.4. Luster Independence, Jennie, Jumbo, Little Buck, Snowflake
adaman tine to dull. Brittle. Color yellowish brown to mines; Sand Springs: State Line district: Creole, Gold
dark brown. Streak yellOWish brown. Occurs with Dome, Johnny, Ofer, Phelps, Utah Spur mines.
limonite forming gossans in Utah. Juab COlmZl' Deep Creek Mountains: Gold Bond,
Beaver COIIII(]' San Francisco district: Pruess district: Jumbo, Queen of Sheba mines: Detroit district: Charm,
Blackhird, Cactus mines. Copperhead, E. P. H., Ibex, Martha mines: Tintic dis-
Box Elder COUll ty Lucin district: Copper Moun tain, trict: Black Jack, Bullion Beck, Centennial, Empire,
Tecoma Hill mines. Eureka, Eureka Hill, Mammoth, May Day, Victoria
Grall" County Miners Basin district: High Ore mine. mines; Trout Creek district; West Tintic district: Scotia,
Iron COlin fl' State Line district. War Eagle mines.
Juah COUll (I' Detroit district: Iron Blossom mine. Kalle COUll ty Colorado Rive r district; Paria River,
Pillte COIIII(]' Marysvale district: La Vita prospect. Shinarump clay ]5 miles north of state boundry.
Silica Hills. Millard COUllty House Range: Amasa Valley, Granite
SaIl I,ake Count)' Big Cottonwood district: Eclipse, Canyon, Notch Peak; Leamington district: Yellowstone
Reed and Benson mines. mine.
Sail Jllan COllllt)' White Canyon district: Happy Jack Morgan Coul1ty Morgan district: Chicago-Utah, Iron
mine. King, Morgan Consolidated" Morgan Crescent, Red
Utah COIi/1(l' East Tintic district: Burgin mine. Eagle mines; Strawberry mine.
Piutc Coullty Deer Creek; Gold Mountain district:
GOLD Annie Laurie, Mill Creek on Signal Peak, Sevier mines.
Mt. Baldy district: Deer Trail, Pluto mines; Ohio district:
Native gold, Au. Isometric. Crystals rare. Commonly Bully Boy and Webster, Cascade, Dalton, Pine Gulch
reticulated, dendritic, filiform, spongy. Also massive Creek, Tunnel Extension No_ 2, Wedge mines.
or as flattened grains or scales. H. 2.5-3. G. 19.3. Frac- Salt Lake COUllt)' Big Cottonwood district: New State
ture hackly. Very malleable and ductile. Color and mine: Bingham district: Bingham Copper Pit, Broad
streak gold-yellow when pure. Luster metallic. Opaque. Gauge, Boston Consolidated, Burning Moscow, Butter-
Beal'er COllllty Bradshaw district: Cave, Hecla, Jolly, field, Caledonia, Commercial, Dalton and Lark, Dixon,
Nip and Tuck mines: Fortuna district: Rocky Hollow: Galena, Last Chance, Montezuma, Nast, Old Jordan, Old
San Francisco district: Golden Reef, Michigan group Telegraph. Parnell, Red Wing, U. S. and Lark, Winna-
mines; Granite district: Beaver View, Big Pass, Contact, muck, Yosemite mines; Bingham district: Bear Gulch,
Garnet group mines: Newton district: Indian Creek, Bingham Canyon, Carr Fork; Little Cottonwood district:
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Dwyer claims; Lower Placer district. bundles which radiate outward in sheaf·like aggre-
Sail JUOII COLIllty Abajo Mountains: south flank; Bluff; gates. H. 3.S. G. 2.2. Cleavage good. Fracture conchoi-
Colorado River: San Juan River junction south to Lees dal. Brittle. Luster vitreous to pearly. Colorless to smoky
Ferry: Golden Queen mine; La Sal Mountains: Monti· white.
cello district: Blue Bird, Copper Queen, Danish Girl, Utah COUI1(V Clay Canyon.
Duckett, Gold Queen, Log Cabin mines: Point Look·
out Placer: San Juan River: Moneuzuma Canyon west to GOSLARITE
Colorado River.
SUlJlmit COllllty Park City district: Daly·Judge, May· Hydrous zinc sulfate, ZnS04·7H20. Orthorhombic.
flower, New York, Silver King, Woodside mines. Usually found as crusts, acicular to hair - like crystals;
Too('/c Coulln' Columbi3 district: Sultan3 mine; Deep massive, granular or fibrous. H. 2-2.S. G. 1.9. Cleav-
Creek Mountains: Devils Pit, E3gles Nest, Midland, age good. Brittle. Luster vitreous. Colorless, Tints of
Oro del Rey, Red Hill mines; Dugway district: Four brown, green, blue. Taste metallic, astringent.
Metals mine; East Erickson district: Indianapolis mine; Bearer Coullty San Francisco district: Horn Silver mine.
Free Coinage district; Gold Hill district: Alvarado, Cane Salt Lake Coullty Bingham district: Dixon, Galena,
Springs, Copper Bloom, Lucy Midas, Reaper, Rube, Old Jordan, Winnamuck mines.
Yellow Hammer mines; Granite Mountain district: Summit COUIl(V Park City district.
Desert, El Dorado, Mountain Queen mines; Mercur Utah Cou,nty East Tintic district.
district: Consolidate Mercur, Daisy, La Cigale, Golden
Gate, Sacramento mines; Ophir district: Dry Canyon GOYAZITE
area . Surprise mine; Lion Hill area Buffalo, East Side,
Empire, Iron, Monarch, Northern Light, Woodruff Hydrous strontium aluminum phosphate, SrAI 3(P0 4 )2
mines: Rush Valley district: Honerine mine; Wild Cat OH)S' H20. Hexagonal. Small rhombohedral crystals.
Mountains: Silver Queen mine. H. 4\6-S. G. 3.26. Colorless, pink, or honey yellow color.
Uilltoh COl/lily Green River: Flaming Gorge Reservoir Luster greasy to resinous. Transparent.
downstream to Horseshoe Bend. Green River district: Utah COUllty Clay Canyon.
Cub Creek; Little Split Mountain.
Utah Cuullty American Fork district: Yankee mine; East GRANTSITE
Tintic district: Apex Standard, Burgin, Eureka Bullion,
Eureka Lily, Eureka Standard, Iron King, North Lily, Hydrous sodium calcium vanadate, Na4CaV 2V 10032'
Tintic Standard, Trixie mines; Payson district: Nelson ·8H')0. Monoclinic. Occurs as aggregates of micro-
mine: Silver Lake district: Deer Creek, Milkmaid, On· scopic fibers or blades: botryoidal. H. soft. G. 2.9.
tario mines. Color dark olive green to greenish balck. Luster silky.
Wasatch COllllt1' Blue Ledge district: Glencoe, McHenry, Grand Coullty Thompsons district: Parco no. 23 mine.
Mayflower, Valeo mines; Elkhorn district: Crawford,
Nelson 311d Queen properties; Snake Creek district; GRAPHITE
West Quincy mine.
Washingtoll COUll tv Bull Valley district. Native carbon, C. Hexagonal. Commonly in foliated
Weber COllllt)' Cold Water Canyon: Fremont Island dis· masses. Also scaly, radiated, granular, earthy, to com-
trict: Sierra Madre district: King Solomon vein. pact. H. 1·2. G. 2.1. Cleavage basal perfect. Flexible.
Sectile. Greasy feel. Luster metallic. Color iron black to
GOLDICHITE steel gray. Streak black.
Tooele Coun(v Gold Hill district:Alvarado mine.
Hydrous potassium ferric sulfate, KFe(S04)2·4H20. Utah Coullty Silver Lake district: Deer, Silver Creeks.
Monoclinic. Occurs as radiating clusters, or finegrained
crusts. Larger crystals striated. H. 2.S. G. 2.4. Color GREENOCKITE
pale yellowish green. Cleavage good.
Fmcr), COli/ifv San Rafael district: Dexter group. Cadmium sulfide, CdS. Hexagonal. Usually as an earthy
coating. H. 3 3.S. G. 4.9. Cleavage good. Fracture con-
GORDONITE choidal. Brittle. Luster adamantine to resinous. Color
yellow, orange. Streak yellow-orange to brick-red.
Hydrous basic magnesium aluminum phosphate, Bealler County Star district: Moscow mine.
MgAI 2(P0 4 )2(OH)2· 8H p. Triclinic. Usually in Sail Juall Coullty Big Indian district: Mi Vida mine;
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White Canyon district: Happy Jack mine. central Vtall in the Arapien Shale: in southwestern
Utah COlln~v East Tintic district: North Lily mine. Vtah in the Kaibab, Moenkopi, Carmel, and Curtis
Formations; in northeastern Utah in the Thaynes and
GROSSULARITE (See GARNET) Carmel Formations. Huge selenite crystals have been
found in caves in Wayne County, and other parts of the
GUANO State.
Beaver Coullty Pruess district: Blackbird, Cactus mines;
Essentially a tricalcium phosphate. Found in areas San Francisco district: Horn Silver mine.
frequented by birds, comprised chiefly of their ex· Box Elder County Promontory distirict: Lakeview Min-
crement. ing properties.
Bo.\" Elder Cuullty Bird Island: Gunnison Island. Duchesne Coullty Lake Fork; Rock Creek.
Millard CUlIIlty Tabernacle Mountain. Emery County Cedar Mountain district; Fullers Bottom;
Horn Silver Gulch; San Rafael district: Delta mine,
GUMMITE Flat Top Mesa; San Rafael River: Tidwell Ranch.
Garfield County Circle Cliffs: Acme, Black Widow, Blue
No single formula attributed to these materials, essential- Goose, Rocky Mountain, Steam Boat mines; Coyote
ly oxides of uranium, usually with Pb, Th, rare earths, Creek district: Hampton mine, Water Pocket Canyon.
and large amounts of water. Massive, dense. Also as Grand COUllty Agate Switch; Cane Creek: Texas Gulf
crusts. H. 2.5-5. G. 3.9-6.4. Fracture conchoidal, uneven. Potash mine; Fisher Valley; Gypsum Hills; Moab Valley;
Brittle. Luster greasy to vitreous, often resembles gum. Onion Creek; Polar Mesa district; Paradox Basin; Salt
Color yellow, orange, brown, black. Valley: Seven Mile anticline; Thompsons area.
Emery CUlIllty San Rafael district: Delta mine. Iron County Cedar Canyon; Kanarraville.
Sail Juan County Paradox Valley district: Grey Dawn Juab County Mona district: San Pitch Mountains:
mine. Chicken Creek, Levan, Nephi, Salt Creek; Tintic district:
Mammoth mine.
GUNNINGITE Kane Coullty Cannonville; Glendale; Johnson Creek;
Kanab Creek; Kimball Valley; Orderville; Paria.
Hydrous zinc iron sulfate, (Zn.Fe)S04"H20. Mono- Millard Coullty Fillmore; Gordon district: Cove Creek,
clinic. Very fine grained; as an efforescence. Easily Black, Excelsoir, Maripose, New York, Philadelphia,
soluble in water. H. 2)6. G. 3.2. Color white. Luster Prince Albert, Sulphur King, Queen Victoria mines;
vitreous. Kanosh.
Utah COllll(V East Tintic district. Piute County Gold Mountain district; Marysvale district:
Quick silver mine; Sevier Canyon.
GYPSITE Salt Lake Count)' Shores of Great Salt Lake.
Sail Juan County Gypsum Creek; Moab Valley; Monti-
Earthy mixture of gypsum with clay and sand. Found on cello district; Paradox Basin; San Juan River; White Can-
playas. yon district: Hapy Jack mine.
Millard Coullty West of Fillmore, dunes twenty feet Sanpete COUllty Gunnison; Mayfield; Twelve Mile Can-
high. yon.
To )ele COllnty Large dunes near Knolls. Sevier COUI1(Y Glenwood; Henry district: Trinity pros-
pect; Rock Candy Mountain; Sigurd.
GYPSUM Summit County Park City district: Wabash property.
Tooele COUlltJ' Dugway district: Bertha, Four Metals,
Hydrous calcium sulfate, CaS04" 2H 20. Monoclinic. Kellys Hole, Metal States, Surplus mines; Gold Hill
Single crystals commonly simple in habit. Also granular district: Gold Hill (U. S.) mine; shores of Great Salt
massive, foliated. and rock forming. H. 2. G. 2.3. Cleav- Lake; Knolls; Mercur district: Mercur mine; Ophir dis-
age perfect one direction, two imperfect. Flexible, not trict: Ophir Hill area - Admiral Dewey prospect; Rush
elastic. Luster vitreous to pearly. Colorless, white, gray, Valley district: Mescatine mine.
yellowish or brownish. Gypsum occurs as extensive beds Uilltah COUllty Steinaker Draw; Uteland Knoll district:
of sedimentary origin, associated with anhydrite. In Ouray; Whiterocks Canyon.
southeastern Utall found in the Paradox Member of the Utah County Utall district: Alpha. Emerald, Lucky Boy,
Hermosa Formation; in east-central Utah it occurs in Queen of the West, Spalding, Trotter mine';.
the Carmel, Entrada, and Summerville Formations; in
Washington County Santa Clara district: Black Beauty
Minerals and Mineral Localities of Utah, Kenneth C. Bullock 81
no. I claim; Silver Reef district; St. George; Toquerville; Wasatch CoulI(l' KeetJey area.
Virgin River. Waslzillgotn Coullty Mineral Mountain: Beauty Knoll
Wayne Count)' Caineville; Fremont River: South Wash; claims.
Fruita: Oyler mine; Last Chance Gulch; Muddy River.
HALOTRICHITE
GYROLITE
Hydrous sulfate of divalent iron, FeAI2(S04)4°22H20.
Hydrous basic calcium silicate, Ca2Si307(OH)2oH20. Monoclinic. Occurs in silky fibrous forms, tufted. Also
Hexagona1. A zeolite. Occurs in white concretions, acicular. H. 1.5. G. 1.9. Cleavage poor. Fracture con-
lamellar, radiating structures. Basal cleavage. H. 3-4. G. choidal. Brittle. Luster vitreous. Colorless to white,
2.4. yellowish or greenish. Taste astringent.
Salt Lake C'OlllZ(l' Bingham district: Bingham Copper Emerv CoulI(v San Rafael district: Dexter group.
Pit. Uintah COUll(V Uteland Knoll district: Ouray.
Utah COUl1ry East Tintic district: Tintic Standard mine.
HALITE
HECTORITE
Sodium chloride, NaCI. Isometric. Usually cubic crystals,
faces often cavernous and stepped. Also massive, coarse- H'ydrous magnesium lithium silicate, Na0.33(Mg,Li)3-
ly granular to compact. H. 2. G. 2.1. Cleavage cubic. S1401O(F,OH)2' Monoclinic. A member of the
Brittle. Luster vitreous. Colorless, white, yellow, red. smectite group. Massive, very fine grain; clay like. H.
Box Elder COUIl()' Great Salt Lake. 1-2. G. 2-3. Color white. Luster dull.
Davis COUllt1' Great Salt Lake. Duchesne COUIl(l' Green River Formation.
Gralld COUllt)' Cane Creek: Texas Gulf Potash mine. Juab County Thomas Range: Spor Mountain.
Cane Creek; Paradox Basin; Salt VaIley; Seven Mile Uilltah Coun(J' Green River Formation.
anticline.
Juah COUllfl' San Pitch Mountains: Chicken Creek, HEDENBERGITE
Levan, Nephi, Salt Creek.
Pillfc Count]' Marysvale district. Calcium iron silicate, CaFeSi 20 6 . Monoclinic. A pyrox-
Salt Lakc COllllt)' Great Salt Lake. ene. In prismatic crystals. Cleavage prismatic imper-
Sail JII.iII COlllztl' Moab Valley. fect. H. 5-6. G. 3.5. Color black.
Sallpcte Co II II (1' Gunnison: Twelve Mile Canyon. Beaver Coullty Star district: Lady Bryan, Moscow mines.
Scrier COIlI/fl' Glenwood: Redmond: Sigurd. Grand Coun(v La Sal Mountains: North Mountain;
Tooele Coullty Great Salt Lake; Great Salt Lake Flats; Miners Basin district: Dewey, M. I. F. mines.
Salduro: Wendover. Tooele County Ophir district: Ophir Hill area - Hidden
Washingtoll COllllty Virgin River. Treasure mine.
HALLOYSITE HELIUM
Hydrous a1umiwlm silicate, AI2Si205(OH)402H20. Helium, He. Inert, colorless, odorless gas. Helium is next
Monoclinic. H. 1·2. G. 2.1. Fracture conchoidal. Luster to hydrogen in lightness. Density 0.178. Associated with
pearly, waxy, dull. Color white, grayish, greenish, natural gas.
yellowish, bluish, reddish. Emery Count)' Woodside Dome.
Box Elder County Lucin district: Copper Mountain, Grand COU/l()' Harley Dome.
Tecoma Hill mines.
Juab Coullty Tintic district: Dragon mine, Packard
Peak. HELVITE
Afillard Coullty Church Hills: Stevens prospect.
Piute COlin t}' Marysvale district. Complex beryllium silicate, Mn7FeBe6Si6024S2' Iso-
Summit County Park City district: Park-Bingham Tun- metric. Crystals are tetralledrons. Occurs also in spheri-
ne1. cal masses. Cleavage poor. Fracture uneven to con-
Toocle County Blue Bell district: The Iron mine. choidal. Brittle. H. 6. G. 3.2. Luster vitreous to earthy.
Utah Coullty East Tintic district: Larsen clay pits; Color red-brown. Garnet-like masses.
Beaver COllnty Granite district: Miller mine.
Fox Hills.
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Magnesium calcium carbonate. Mg 3Ca(C0 3)4' Orthor- ICELAND SPAR (See CALCITE)
hombic. Crystals exceedingly small, one micron or less
in size. H. soft. G. 2.7. Occurs compact, chalklike IDDINGSITE
masses. Fracture even to subconchoidal. Brittle. Por-
ous. Crumbles in water emitting crackling noises. Hydrous magnesium iron silicate, probably HSMg9
Smooth feel, adheres to tongue. Color white. Luster Fe2Si3014' Orthorhombic. Lamellar crystals or foliag-
dull. ed. H. 3. G. 2.7. Cleavage good. Luster bronze. Color
Beaver County Rocky district: Little Rocky prospect. chestnut brown to yellowish green. Alteration product.
Juab County Tintic district: ISOO' level of Chief Con- Tooele County Rush Valley district.
solidated mine.
IDOCRASE
HYALITE (See OPAL)
Hydrous calcium aluminum silicate, CalO(Mg,Fe)2AI4-
HYDROMAGNESITE (Si0 4 )S(Si 20 7)2(OH). Tetragonal. Crystals Prismatic,
often striated. H. 6.5. G. 3.4. Luster vitreous to resinous.
Hydrous magnesium carbonate hydroxide, Mg S(C0 3)4- Color green, brown, yellow, blue, red. Usually found in
(OHh·4H.,0. Monoclinic. Crystals tiny. Occurs as crystalline limestone resulting from contact metamor-
tufts,~ rosettes. or acicular or bladed crystals. Also phism.
massive. chalky. or mealy. Cleavage perfect Brittle. Beaver County Bradshaw district: 2 R's group; Granite
H. 3.5. G. 2.2. Luster vitreous, silky or pearly. Color- district: Big-Pass, Bismuth, Oak, Oak Basin, Rattler,
less to white. Ward groups; Lincoln district: Creole mine.
Salt Lake County Big Cottonwood district; Big Cotton- Juab CUUllt)' West Tintic district.
wood. Mountain Lake mines. Miflard County House Range: Amasa Valley, Horse-
shoe, Mt. Baldy, New Klondike, Pine Peak, Pinke Peak,
HYDROMICA (See lIIite). Rainbow, South, South Pit, Side springs mines, Notch
Minerals and Mineral Localities of Utah, Kenneth C. Bullock 85
JEFFERlSITE KAINITE
-
Hydrous sulfate and chloride of potassium and mag- tine. Color cherry red. Streak brownish red.
nesium. KMg(S04)Clo3H20. Monoclinic. Granular mas- Utah COllllt)' American Fork district: Bay State mine.
sive and interbedded with other salts. Cleavage perfect.
Fracture even. Brittle. H. 2.5-3. G. 2.2. Luster vitreous. KIESERITE
Colorless to white. An evaporite resulting frolll artificial
ponding. Hydrous magnesium sulfate. MgS0 4 oH 2 0. Monoclinic.
TO(ic/e COll/itl' Salduro: Wendover. Mostly massive, coarse to fine granular, and intergrown
with other salts. H. 3.5. G. 2.6. Colorless, white or yel-
KAOLINITE lowish. Luster vitreous. Cleavage good.
Gralld Coullty Paradox basin.
Hydrous aluminum silicate, AI 2Si 20 5 (OH)2' Tri- Sail Juall Coullf.v Paradox Valley district.
clinic .. Occasionally found in minute. thin. rhombic or Tooele Coullty Salduro; Wendover.
hexagonal plates. Clay like masses. either compact or Utah Coullty East Tintic district.
friable. H. 2-2.5. G. 2.6. Cleavage basal. Luster dull
to earthy. Color white. often colored by impurities. KIMOLITE (See Cimolite)
Bearer C, )1/111.1' San Francisco district: Horn Silver mine.
Box Ehler CUlm!.I' Lucin district: Copper Mountain. KINOITE
T ecoma Hill mines.
Cache Coullly Smithfield area. Hydrous copper calcium silicate, CU2Ca2Si301O-
Emer!' COUIl!Y San Rafael district: Delta mine. o2H,O. Monoclinic. Tabular crystals. Transparent and
Pill!e COl/Il!y Marysvale district: White Horse deposit. translucent. H. 5. G. 3.16. Color deep azure blue.
SaIl Lake ((JIIII!.!' Bingham district: Bingham Copper Beal'er Coullty Rocky district: Bawana mine.
Pit.
Sel'ier C(Julln' Henry district: Trinity prospect. KLAPROTHITE
Tooele COIlIl!I' Gold Hill district: Reaper mine; Granite
Mountain district; Oquirrh Mountains: Manning Canyon Copper bismuth sulfide, CU6Bi4S9' Orthorhombic.
Shale: Stansbury Mountains: Manning Canyon Shale. Prismatic crystals' Massive. Britte. H. 2~. G. 6.01.
Ulah COl/lltl' Beverly Hilis: Manning Canyon Shale: Luster metallic. Color steel gray. Tarnishes to brass
Cedar Valley: East Tintic district: Burgin. Eureka yellow or iridescent.
Standard. Larsen Clay pits. North Lily mines: Fox Hills: Utah COUIl!Y East Tintic district.
Jordan Narrows: Orem. Saratoga, Soldiers Pass quad-
rangles: Lehi district: Manning Canyon Shale: Lake KOLBECKITE
Mountain: Manning Canyon Shale; Thorpe Hills: Man-
ning Canyon Shale. Wasatch Mountains: Manning Can- Hydrous scandium phosphate, ScP0 4 2H 20. Orthor-
0
KERMESITE KORNERUPINE
Antimony oxysulfide. Sb..,S..,O. Monoclinic. Crystals Hydrous magnesium aluminum boron silicate, Mg 3 -
lath-shaped. elongated. Als; tufted radiating aggregates. AI 6 (Si,AI,B)S021 (OH). Orthorhombic. In fibrous to
H. 1-1.5. G. 4.6. Cleavage good. Sectile. Lusteradaman- columnar aggregates. H. 6.5. G. 3.27. Colorless to white,
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brown. LEADHILLITE
San Juan COUllt)' Moses Rock dike.
Basic sulfate-carbonate of lead, Pb 4 (S04) (C0 3)2
KRENNERITE (OH)). Monoclinic. Crystals usually pseudo-hexagonal.
H. 2.5-3. G. 6.5. Cleavage good. Fracture conchoidal.
Ditelluride of gold, AuTe,"). Orthorhombic. Usually Rather sectile. Luster resinous to adamantine. Color-
short prismatic crystals. Brittle. H. 2-3. G. 8.62. Luster less to white, gray, pale green, pale blue, yellowish.
metallic. Color silver white to light brass yellow when Juab COUllty Tintic district: Eureka Hill mine.
tarnished.
Utah Coullt)' East Tintic district: North Lily, Tintic LEHIITE
Standard mines.
Hydrous basic phosphate of sodium, potassium, calcium
KYANITE and aluminum of uncertain formula, perhaps (Na,K),.,
CaSAI8(P04)8(OH)12·6H20. Found as crusts and
Aluminum silicate, AI 2SiO s . Triclinic. Usually in long layers comprised of subparallel aggregates of fibers.
bladed crystals. H. 5-7.5. G. 3.6. Cleavage good. Luster H. 5.5. G. 2. 9. Color white to gray.
vitreous. Color blue, white; also green, gray, black. Utah County Clay Canyon.
Occurs in schists and gneiss.
Box Elder Coullty Grouse Creek Range: Birch, Southern LEPIDOCROCITE
Conley, Western Grouse Creeks.
Daggett COUllt)' Red Creek Complex. Basic ferric oxide, FeO(OH). Orthorhombic. Occurs as
scales flattened and slightly elongated. Also as rosettes,
LABRADORITE massive. Brittle. H. 5. G. 4.1. Luster submetallic. Color
ruby-red to reddish brown. Streak dull orange. Trans-
Calcium sodium aluminum silicate, CaA1 2 Si 20 8 ' NaAl- parent.
Si 30 8' Triclinic. Variety of plagioclase. Crystals usually Wayne COUllty Fruita: Oyler mine.
twinned. Basal cleavage plates show striations. Cleav-
age good in two directions. H. 6. G. 2.7. Colorless, LETTSOMITE (See CY ANOTRICHITE)
white, gray, golden brown. A golden brown gem stone
variety is found at Jericho and Clear Lake, occurs in LEUCHTENBERGITE
lavas.
Juab COUllt)' East of Jericho; Keg Mountains. Variety of c1inochlore, Mgs(Mg,AI) AISi 30 lO ·4H 20.
IHillard COUllt)' Clear Lake Railroad Station. Monoclinic. Crystals usually hexagonal in form, often
Tooele COUllty Stansbury Mountains: Mack, Muskrat, tabular. Cleavage perfect. H. 2-2 .5. G. 2. 7. Luster
North Canyons, Salt Mountain. pearly. Colorless. Often resembles talc.
Piute Coullt)' Mt. Baldy district: Deer Trail mine.
LANARKITE Utah Count}' East Tintic district.
Hydrous calcium sodium aluminum silicate, CaAI 2Si 4 - LEUCOXENE (See ANATASE)
012· 4H 20 . Monoclinic. A zeolite. Common crystal
form is a prism. Also columnar, radiating and divergent. LEVERRIERITE
H. 3.5 -4. G. 2. 3. Cleavage good. Luster vitreous to
pearly. Color white to yellow or gray. Hydrous silicate of aluminum. Monoclinic. Occurs in
Garfield COUllty Henry Mountains: Bromide, Oro mines. vermicular aggregates. H. 1.5. G. 2.5. Cleavage good
Minerals and Mineral Localities of Utah, Kenneth C. Bullock 89
trict: Copper Jack. Green's Ridge. Silver Shield mines; LODESTONE (See MAGNETITE)
Erickson district: Highland Lassie no. 1. Silver Reef
mines; Gold Hill district:Alvarado, Boxton, Silver and LORANDITE
Gold Mining Company, Unadine mines; Granite Moun-
tain district: Desert, El Dorado, Mountain Queen mines; Thallium arsenic sulfide, T1AsS 2 . Monoclinic, Cleav-
Mercur district: Mineral Hill mine; Ophir district: Dry age good. Flexible. H. 2. 5. G. 5.5. Luster metallic,
Canyon area - Kearsarge. Mono, Queen of the Hills adamantine. Color carmine-red, often dark lead-gray
mines; Lion Hill area - Buffalo mine; Ophir Hill area - on the surface. Frequently covered with an ocher-yel-
Admiral Dewey, Chicago. Cliff. Hidden Treasure, Sac- low powder. Streak cherry-red. Transparent to trans-
ramento mines; Rush Valley district: Argent. Ben lucent.
Harrison. Calumet, Galena King, Honerine, Mescatine, Tooele COllll(l' Mercur district.
Muerbrook. Salvation - Hercules mines.
Utah COUllt]' American Fork district: Dutchman, Miller, LOUGHLINITE
Pittsburgh mines; East Tintic district: Burgin. Iron King.
Tintic Standard mines; Lehi district: Hutchings claim; Hydrous sodium magnesium silicate, Na2Mg3Si6016-
North Tintic district: Selma mine; Payson district: ·8H..,O. Fibrous structure. Color pearly-white, Luster
Nelson, Syndicate mines; Provo district: Monarch mine; silk/ G. 2.2. Very sin1ilar to sepiolite in appearance.
Santaquin district: Union Chief mine; Utah district: Authigenic mineral in the Green River Formation.
Alpha. Emerald, Lucky Boy, Queen of the West, Spald- Duchesne Coullty Green River Formation.
ing, Trotter mines.
Washington Coullty Mineral Mountain: Picadilly mine. LUCINITE (See VARISCITE)
Tutsagubet district: Apex (Dixie) mine.
Wal'lle Coullty Miners Mountain district: Old Faithful. LUCKITE (See MELANTFRITE)
Wonder Copper no. 1 mines; Rabbit Valley: Old Dixon
prospect; Turrey: T. R.·Lode no. 1 mine. LUDWIGITE
Weber Coullty Ogden Canyon.
Magnesium iron borate, (Mg,Fe)2FeBOS' Orthorhombic.
Occurs in finely fibrous masses, felted aggregates. Also
L1NARITE sheaf-like aggregates and rosettes of needle-like crystals.
H. 5. G. 3. 6. Tough on fracture. Luster silky. Color dark
Basic lead copper sulfate, PbCu(S04) (OH)2' Mono- green to greenish black. Streak black to blackish green.
clinic. Crystals elongated and often tabular. Occurs Beaver C()lIllt)' Beaver Lake district: West Spring.
singly, in crusts. and aggregates. H. 2.5. G. 5. 3. Cleav- Salt Lake COUll ty Big Cottonwood district: Big Cotton-
age good. Fracture conchoidal. Brittle. Luster vitreous. wood, Great Western, Mountain Lake, Mountain View
Color deep azure blue. Streak pale blue. mines; Little Cottonwood district: Alta Stock contact
Beal'er COlIII(l' San Francisco district: Horn Silver mine. zone, Michigan Utah, Hecla mines.
Juab COUI/fl' West Tintic district: Scotia mine.
Salt Lake COUllfl' Bingham district; Little Cottonwood LUZONITE
district: Grizzly mine.
Summit COUII(l' Park City district: Silver King. Wood- Copper arsenic sulfide, CU3AsS4' Tetragonal. A dark,
side mines. reddish. steel-gray mineral with the composition of
Uta!, COUll ty East Tintic district. enargite. Fracture uneven. Streak black. H. 3-4. G. 4.4.
Utah COllilty East Tintic district: North Lily, Tintic
LITHIOPHORITE Standard mines.
St. MJry's, Sundown. White Rock, Wild Bill mines. shoe No.3 mines; La Sal Mountains; La Sa] Quadrangle:
Box ElJer COlilltl' Ashbrook district: Vipont mine; Jackpot mine, Lisbon Valley, Climax nos. 1-2, Lisbon
Lucin district: Copper Mountain, Jeff Doran mines; Copper mines; Monticello district: Copper Queen,
Newfoundland district: Copper Ridge; Promontory Tuffy Copper mines; Monument Valley district: 0]
district: Lakeview mine; Willard district: Mormon Girl, jata, Skyline, Whirlwind mines; Paradox Valley district:
Ogden Boilmakers, Overland claims. Grey Dawn mine; Red Canyon district; San Juan River;
Cache COI/ilty Hyrum district: Lucky Star Claim; La White Canyon district; Bell, Four Aces, Fry No.4,
Plata area: Sundown claim; Paradise district; Richmond Happy Jack, Hideout, Jomac, Posey mines.
district. Sevier County Salina Creek district: Ball, Lead Hill
Dagr;err COlillty Red Creek. Yellow Canary Uranium mines, Sevier Canyon.
deposit. Summit Coul1fy Park City district: Comstock, Daly,
Dm'is COUll~1' Antelope Island; Farmington district: Daly-Judge, Daly West, Jupiter, Nail Driver, Ontario,
Morning Star group, Parrish Canyon; Wandering Jew Scottish Chief, Silver King, Silver King Consolidated,
mine. Woodside mines.
Duchesne County Rock Creek. Tooele County Deep Creek Mountains: Complex,
Emery Coun~l' Castle Dale; Castle Valley; Emery dis- Devils Pit, Dewey, Eagles Nest, Fortuna, Gold Star,
trict; San Rafael district: Copper Globe, Delta mines. Laura, Monocco, North Pass, Oro del Rey, Overland,
Garfield Coun(v Circle Cliffs: Acme, Blue Goose mines; Probert, Prosperity, Silver Queen mines; Dutch Moun-
Henry Mountains: Cuprum claim. tain; Dugway district: Belcher, Black Maria, Black
Grand Coullty Hoosier mine: La Sal district: Bronite, Dragon, Confidence, Juno, Metal States, Raymond-Bald
McCoy mines. Miner's Basin district: Dewey, High Ore, Eagle mines; East Erickson district: Copper Jack, Jessel
McCormick, Moab no. 1 mines; Salt Valley. Bezze!, Silver Shield mines; Erickson district: Highland
Iron County Escalante district: Escalante mine. Iron Lassie no. 1 mine; Gold Hill district: Alvarado, Cala-
Springs district: Granite Mountain, Iron Mountain. veras, Centennial, Copperopolis, Enterprise, Copper
Juah County Deep Creek Mountains: Gold Bond. Bloom, Copper Hill, Copper Queen-Midland Mining
Johnson Canyon. Singleton Canyon, Water Canyon Company, Doctor, Frankie, Garrison Monster, Gold
mines. Detroit district: Charm, Copperhead, E. P. H., Bond, Gold Hill (U. S.), Ida Lull, Lucy L., Minnehaha,
Ibex mines: Thomas Range: Eagle Rock prospect; Tintic Monoco, Napoleon, New Baltimore, Ozark, Pole Star
district: Boss Tweed. Carissa, Centennial Eureka, Gemi- Copper Company. Rea, Silver King, Unadine, Victory
ni. Gold Chain, Iron Blossom. Sioux, Sunbeam mines; no. 1, Yellow Hammer mines; Granite Mountain district:
West Tintic district: Lockheed Iron. 1903, Pyramid, Blue Bell, Cannon Tank Canyon, Desert, EI Dorado,
Scotia. Tintic Western. War Eagle mines. Mountain Queen mines; Grantsville district; Greeley
Aane Coun(1' Paria Mining Company. district; Mercur district: Mineral Hill mine; Ophir dis-
Millard COIlIlf...... Church Hills: Stevens prospt'ct; Detroit trict: Dry Canyon area - Brooklyn, Kearsarge, Mono,
district: Almond. Blue BelL Major Drum mines; Leam- Queen of the Hills mines; Foothill area - Lakes of
ington district: Fool Creek Canyon. Killarney mine; Lion Hill area - Buffalo mine, Chloride
Morxall County Morgan district: Chicago-Utah. Iron Point; Ophir Hill area - Chicago, Cliff, Hidden Treasure,
King. Morgan Consolidated. Morgan Crescent, Red Sacramento mines; Rush Valley district: Ben Harrison,
Eagle mines: Round Valley: Copper Mountain mine. Calumet, Galena, Honerine, Muerbrook, Salvation
Pillte COlllllY Mt. Baldy district: Clyde. Deer Trail Hercules, Southport mines; Silver Island district: Carrie
mines; Ohio district: Cascade, Copper Belt, Dalton, Mack pwperty; Tooele district; Willow Springs district.
Iris. Shamrock, Wedge mines. Uintah COUll tv Brown Park area; Brush Creek district:
SaIl Lake COUIl(V Big Cottonwood district: Alta Tunnel Little Alta mine; Bullionville; Carbonate district: Dyer,
and Transportation Company. Antelope, Big Cotton- Jessie Ewing mines, Red, Willow Creeks; Little Split
wood, Carbonate, Cardiff, Eclipse. Mountain Lake, Mountain; Uteland Knoll district: Ouray.
Price of Wales, Woodlawn mines; Bingham district: Utah Coullty American Fork district: Miller mine; East
Bingham Copper Pit, Butterfield, Columbia, Com- Tintic district: Apex Standard mine, Eureka Bullion,
mercial, Galena. Highland Boy. Midland, Old Jordan, Eureka Lily, Eureka Standard, Tintic Standard, Trixie
Old Telegraph, U. S. and Lark. Yampa mines; Little mines; Santaquin district: Black Balsam, Copper Bullion,
Cottonwood district: Emma, Little Emma mines; Sally Ann mines; Thorpe Hills.
Smelter district. Washil1xtoll Coullty Mineral Mountain: Emma, Greger-
Sail Juall COUlltv Big Indian district: Big Indian Copper son mines; Silver Reef district: Buckeye, East Reef,
mine: Elk Ridge: Notch Nos. 5 and 6. Oakie, Wooden- Emily Jane, Maud, Requa mines; Tutsagubet district:
Mmeral> and Mineral Localllles of lilah. Kenneth C. Bullock 93
Apex (Dixie). Paymaster mines. Cleavage poor. Fracture uneven. Brittle. Luster metallic.
h'arnc COlll1!\' Capitol Wash: Capitol Wash to Sheets Color pale bronze yellow. Streak grayish or brownish
Gulch: Grand \It,'ash to Capitol Wash: Mmers Mountain black.
district: Old FaithfuL Wonder Copper no. I mines; Beal'er Coullty Gordon district: Sulphurdale.
Torrey: T. R. Lode no. J mine. Emery County San Rafael district: Dirty Devil, Little
Weber COUIll)' Cold Water Canyon: Sierra Madre district: Susan. Lucky Strike. Pay Day mines.
Eldorado. King Solomon mines: Web~r district: New Juab County Tintic district: Bullion Beck, Gemini
Azurite. Standard Mining Company mines. mines.
Millard County Gordon district: Cove Creek, Victor
MALLARDITE Conqueror mine.
Morgan County Morgan district: Chicago·Utah, Iron
Hydrous manganese sulfate, MnS04·7H~O. Monoclinic. King. Morgan Consolidated, Red Eagle mines.
Occurs as fibrous masses and crusts. H. 2. G. 1. 8. SaIl Lake Coumy Bingham district: Highland Boy,
Cleavage good. Luster vitreous. Color pale rose. Soluble Midland, Yampa mines.
in water. San Juan County Elk Ridge: North and 4 mines;
Sail Lake Coullty Bingham district: Lucky Boy mine. White Canyon district: Happy Jack mine.
Sanpele County Dry Canyon.
MANGANITE Utah County East Tintic district: Burgin, Eureka
Standard, Tintic Standard mines.
Basic manganese oxide. MnO(OH). Monoclinic. Crys·
tals prismatic , faces striated vertically. Also grouped MAR TITE (See HEMATITE)
in bundles, columnar to coarse fibrous. stalactitic.
H. 4. G .. 4.4. Cleavage good. Fracture uneven. Brittle. MASSICOT
Luster submetallic. Color dark steel·gray. Streak reddish
brown to nearly black. Lead oxide, PbO. Orthorhombic. Occurs massive, scaly
Beaver County San Francisco district; Star district: or earthy. H. 2. G. 9. 5. Cleavage good. Crystals flexible,
Sundown mine. but not elastic. Luster greasy to dull. Color sulfur
Emery Count)' Muddy River. yellow. Streak yellow.
Grand Coullty Little Grand district: Needles, Salt Wash Salt Lake CoulllY Bingham district; Little Cottonwood
group. district: Emma mine.
Juab County Tintic district: Victoria mine. Summit Coullt)' Park City district.
Millard County Detroit district: Black Diamond, Guy, Ulah Coullty East Tintic district: Burgin mine.
Last Chance, Martha, Silica Plug mines.
Sail Juall Co Ulty La Sal Mountains. MATILDITE
Summit Coullty Coalville.
Tooele Coullty Erickson district: Huber·Rydalch mine. Silver bismuth sulfide, AgBiS". Orthorhombic. Massive.
Rarely as prismatic crystals. Granular. Brittle. H. 2~. G.
MANGANOCALCITE 6.9. Color iron black to gray. Fracture uneven.
Utah County East Tintic district.
Calcium manganese carbonate, (Ca.Mn)C0 3 . Hexagonal.
Cleavage perfect. Brittle. H. 3-4. 5. G. 3. 5. Luster MEERSCHAUM (See SEPIOLITE)
vitreous. Color rose·red. yellowish gray, brown.
Piure COUIlt)' Marysvale district; M1. Baldy district: MELACONITE (See TENORITE)
Deer Trail mine.
MELANOVANADITE
MANGANODOLOMITE (See DOLOMITE)
Hydrous calcium vanadyl vanadate, Ca 2 V 4 V 6025"
MARCASITE ·nH 20. Tric1inic. in velvety, divergent bunches or
elongated crystals. H. 2. 5. G. 3. 4. Cleavage good.
Iron disulfide. FeS..,. Orthorhombic. Crystals commonly Brittle. Luster submetallic. Color black. Streak dark
tabular. Also ma~sive and stalactitic with radiating reddish brown. Opaque.
structure and exterior covered with projecting crystals. Gralld COUllt)' Thompsons district: Juniper mine.
Cockscomb structure is typical. H. 6·6. 5. G. 4. 8. Sail Juan Count)' La Sal Quadrangle: Black Hat mine;
94 li(;]h Geological and MIl1t:ral SurvC). BuIlcllll J J 7, 19HI
Parado\ Valle:- district: Grey Dawn. Vanadium Queen Gralld COlllITr Poison Spring Canyon; Thompson>
mines. district: Thom claim.
PilllC C(lIIIlt1· Marysvale district: Freedom no. :::. La
MET A-ALUM Il'\ITE Hydrous calcium vanadate. CaV 206 <:!H:;O. Triclinic. G.
2.45. A dehydration product from rossite. Found as
Hydrous aluminum sulfate. AI:::(S04) (OH)4·5H20. platy to flaky masses and veinlets, which are soft and
Monoclinic. Minute crystal laths: also microcrystalline. friable. Luster dull to pearly. Color light yellow. H. soft.
H. soft. G. J.85. Color white. Luster silky. Gral/d COLollt)' Thompsons area; Thompsons district:
Emery COlllltl' San Rafael district: Temple Mountain, Parco no. 23 mine.
Fuemrol No.2 mine. San Jual/ COUIll)' Monticello district: Brushy Basin,
Spring Creek.
MET A-AUTUNITE li'ayne CO/lIl~l' Coleman Canyon to Oak Creek.
Garfield C.!lIlltl· Escalante: Henry ~lountains on south- Mountain. Bell Hill. Blowout. Blue Chalk. Dell no. 5.
west nanks: Kaiparowits Plateau, fossil placer six miles Eagle Rock. Floride no. 5. Fluorine Queen. Green
south of Escalante in Straight Cliffs Sandstone. Crystal. Hogsback. Northend, Rainbow. Roadside mines.
hane COlllZTY Kaiparowits Plateau: Rees Canyon. Croten PilllC COUll!), Marysvale district.
Canyon. and Sunday Canyon. fossil placers in Straight Sail Lake Coullty Bingham district: U. S. and Lark mine.
Cliffs Sandstone. Serier' COllllty Aurora; Henry district: Trinity prospect,
Morgall COIIIIT), Arthur Fork. Redmond. Rock Candy Mountain.
Serier COIIIITY Monroe Canyon. Summit County Park City district: Daly. Ontario mines.
Tooele COllll Tr East Erickson district: South Pine Utah COUIl!y East Tintic district: North Lily mine; Fox
Canyon. Hills.
Uillrah COllllty Jenson. Wasatch Coul![Y Keetley area.
Wame Coull[y Caineville. Washington Coullty Silver Reef district.
Star district: Hub. Lady Bryan. Moscow mllles: Newton Piwc COUll!." l\1arysvale district: AI Kee·\1ee prospect.
district: Sheep Rock mine: Rocky district: Copper
Ranch mine. NATROJAROSITE
Bllx Elder C(lIIi2!l' Ashbrook district: Vipont mine;
Lucin district: Tecoma Hill mines; Rosebud district; Basic sodium ferric sulfate. NaFe3(S04)2(OH)6' Hexa-
Willard district: Mormon Girl claim. gonal. Occurs in eanhy masses or crusts, comprised of
Daggerr Coun!.,' Red Creek Complex. tiny crystals, H. 3. G. 3. ::. Cleavage good. Color cin-
Juah COUll!." Goshute Indian Reservation: House namon-brown. Fracture conchoidal. Luster vitreous.
Range: Painter Springs: Spring Creek district: Queen of Brittle. Transparent to translucent.
Sheba mine. Tuoele Cowzn' Gold Hill district: Gold Hill (Western
FiUTC COUll fl' Marysvale district. Utah) mine.
Sail Lake COlllIT), Big Cottonwood district: Mountain
Lake mine: Bingham district: Bingham Copper pit; NATROLITE
Little Cottonwood stock.
Sevier County Henry district; Trinity prospect.
Summil Coullly Park City district: Daly-Judge, Silver
- -
Hydrous sodium aluminum silicate, Na"lAl,.,Si"O 1O' 2-
,)
H,.,O. Orthorhombic. Prismatic crystals, usually in radiat-
King, Silver King Consolidated, Woodside mines. ing crystal groups. Also fibrous, massive, granular,
Tooe/c CounlY Gold Hill district: Yellow Hammer compact. H. S - 5. 5. G. 2. 3. Cleavage perfect. Luster
mine: Granite Mountain district; Ophir district: Lion vitreous. Colorless to white, tints of yellow, red, Trans·
Hill area; Ophir Hill area - Ophir Hill Consolidated, parent to translucem.
Ophir Coalition mines. Piutc COWZ(V Marys\·ale district: Silica Hills.
Utah CoulITY American Fork district: Pittsburgh mine; Tooele Counry Rush Valley district.
East Tintic district.
h'asalch Coullty Bonanza Flat; Snake Creek district. NATRON
Washingtoll COUll!.]' Silver Reef district.
Hydrous sodium carbonate, Na2C03 -1 OH::O. Mono-
MOTTRAMITE clinic. Cleavage distinct. Fracture conchoidal Brittle.
H. I - 1. S. G. 1. 8. Luster vitreous. Colorless to white.
Hydrous zinc copper lead vanadate. (Zn.Cu)Pb(V0 4 - Taste alkaline. Effloresces rapidly in dry air. Occurs as
(OH). Orthorhombic. Drusy crusts of intergrown crystalline, granular. or columnar crusts. as mealy
Brittle. H. 3-3~'2. G. 6.::. Luster greasy. Color greass coatings, efflorescence.
green to olive green. reddish brown. Tooele Counry Deep Creek Valley.
frail Couilly Escalante district: Escalante mine.
NAVAJOITE
NAHCOLITE
Hydrous vanadium oxide, probably V 20S·3H20.
Sodium bicarbonate, NaHC0 3 . Monoclinic. Prismatic Probably monoclinic. Fibrous appearance. Occurs as a
crystals and friable crystal aggregates, porous masses. coating around grains. and as in thin seams. H, 1 - 2. G.
Cleavage good. Fracture conchoidal. H, 2. S, G, 2.2. ::.6. Color dark brown, Streak brown. Luster adaman-
Luster vitreous. Colorless to white. Soluble in water. tine.
Found in cores and cuttings from the Green River San Juan COUIl(l' Monument Valley district: Mitten no.
Formation. 1 mine,
DuchcS/lc COlll1!.l' Carter Oil Company wells; Green
River Formation; Sinclair Mortenson well. NEIGHBORITE
L'illlah C()IIII~l' Sun Oil Company South Ouray well.
Sodium magnesium fluoride, NaMgF 3' Orthorhombic.
NATROALUNITE Occurs in rounded grains. or in twinned crystals. Color
pink and brown. H. 4. S. G. 3. Luster vitreous. Uneven
Basic sodium aluminum sulfate. NaAI 3(SO 4)2(OH)6' fracture. Cleavage none. Occurs in Green River Forma-
Hexagonal. Rarely in crystals; occurs as druses in massive tion.
alunite. Massive. granular to dense. Cleavage distinct. Uilllalz COllllTY Sun Oil Company South Ouray well.
Brittle. H. 3. 5 ·4. G. 2. 7. Luster \·itreous. Color white
when pure. NEPHELINE
Mm(';Jh ~nd Mineral L"c'JIJlic~ of lilah. Kenneth C Bullock 99
Sodium potassium aluminum silicate. (~a.K)( AISiO 4). as thick tabular cryst31s: also as aggregates. H. 3. G. 2.4.
HexagonaL Occur, rarely in small prismatic crystals. Colorless to coral pink. to reddish brown.
usually massive. compact, and in embedded gr3ins. DucheSlle COUIlZl' Green River Formation.
H. 5. 5 - 6. G. ::. 6. Cleavage distinct. Luster vitreous, Uillwh Coullty Green River Formation.
greasy. Colorless. white. or yellowish. Transparent and
translucen 1. NORTHUPITE
Toocle COUllll' Sheep Ridge.
Sodium magnesium chloride-carbonate. Na1MgCl-
NICCOLITE (C0 1)". Isometric. Found as tiny octahedral crystals.
Frac-tu~e conchoidal. Brittle. H. 3. 5-4. G. 2. 4. Luster
Nickel arsenide. l'\iAs. Hexagonal. Crystals rare. small. vitreous. Colorless: also pale yellow, gray, or brown.
Usually massive. reniform, with columnar structure. Transparent. Found in the Green River Formation.
H. 5·5l'i. G. 7.78. Color copper red, tarnishes gray to Ducilesne Counry Green River Formation.
black. Luster metallic.
Emery COUlllY San Rafael district: Lucky Strike mine. NOSELITE
ORPIMENT
OLIVINE
Arsenic trisulfide. As 2 S 3 . Monoclinic. Crystals short
Magnesium iron silicate. (Mg.Fe)2Si04' Orthorhombic. prismatic. Usually in foliated or columnar masses; some-
Crystals often flattened. Massive, compact, granular, times with reniform surface. H. 1. 5-2. G. 3. 5. Cleavage
embedded grains. H. 6. 5·7. G. 3. 3. Cleavage poor. good. Cleavage laminae flexible but not elastic. Sectile.
Fracture conchoidal. Brittle. Luster \itreous. Color Luster resinous, pearly. Color lemon-yellow.
green, olive-green, sometimes brownish. reddish, yellow- Box Elder COUlzry Ashbrook district: Vipont mine.
ish. Emery COUllt)' San Rafael district: Camp Bird No.7,
Bearer COUI1IY San Francisco district. Fuemrol no. 2 mine.
Tooele COUllly Southern Oquirrh Mountains: Stansbury Garfield COUIl~l' Coyote Creek district: Hampton mine.
Mountains: Mack, Muskrat, North Willow Canyons, Salt Lake COlIll(l' Bingham district: Butterfield Canyon.
Salt Mountain. Tooele Coullty Mercur district: Brickyard. Golden Gate,
Lilah County American Fork district: Deer, Silver Hillside. Mercur, Sacramento. Sunshine mines.
Creeks: Fox Hills. hasizillgloll COUlztr Bull Valley district: Pilot claims.
Mmer,lI, and Mineral Localltlcs or litar,. i-.:enncth C. Bullock 10]
Varicty of amphibole. NaCaMg4AI(Si.AI)80:2(OH)2' Sal! Lake COlII/n' Big Cottonwood district: Big. Cotton-
Monoclinic. Occurs in stollt lustrous crystals. also granu- wood. Moun tain Lake mines: Little Cottonwood dis-
lar. Color green and blue green. H. 5-6. G. 3. :. Cleavage trict: Clayton Peak Stock contact zone.
prismatic. Brittle. Ulall Cuullty Silver Lake district: Deer. Silver Creeks.
Uwh CowlTr East Tintic district. Washington COllll(J' Mineral Mountain: Emma mine.
mine: Red Canyon district: Posey mine; White Canyon Hydrous copper silicate, CU8(Si40 J J)2(OH)4' H:;O.
district: Gonaway·North Point claims, Happy Jack, Orthorhombic. Fibrous. often mammillary. H. 5. 5. G. 3.
Hideout mines. 3. Color blue.
Beal'er COUI1(l' Beaver Lake district on east side of
PICKERINGITE Beaver Lake Mountains.
] 04 Utah Geolotcical and Mineral Survey, Bulletin 117, 1981
Hearer COlllllY Beaver Lake district: Be3ver-Harrisoll, Pilllc COl/my Gold Mountain district: Anni(' Laurie.
Ok Skylark mines: Bradshaw district: Cave, Hecla, Nip Sevier mines: Marysvale district: La Vila prospect: M1.
and Tuck mines: Fortuna district: Rocky Hollow: Baldy district: Clyde, Deer TraiL Green Eyed Monster
Gordon district: Sulphurdale: Granite district: Big Pass, mines: Ohio district: Bully Boy and Webster. Cascade,
Bismuth, Molly mines: Lincoln district: Creole, Lincoln Copper Belt, Dalton. Great Western, Iris, Shamrock
mines: NewlOn dislTict: Indian Creek. Rob Roy. Sheep mines.
Rock mines: Pine Grove district: Pruess district: Black· Sail Lakc Count)' Big Cottonwood district: American
bird, Cactus, Gold Reef mines: Rocky district: Old Metals, Big Cottonwood, Cardiff, Columbus-Rexall,
Hickory mine: San Francisco district: Beaver Carbonate, Howell-Baby McKee. Kentucky-Utal1, Maxfield. Silver
Cupric. Horn Silver. King David, Michigan, Washington Mountain. Woodlawn mines; Bingham district: Bingham
mines: Star district: Commonwealth, Harrington- Copper Pit. BOSTOn Consolidated, Burning Moscow,
Hickory, Hub. Kemple. Lady Bryan, Moscow, Progreso Broad Gauge, Brooklyn. Butterfield. Caledonia, Carr
sive, Red Warrior. S1. Mary's, White Rock, Wild Bill Fork. Columbia, Commercial, Conger, Colorado. Dalton
Woodhouse mines. and Lark. Dixon, Frisco, Fortune, Galena, Highland
Box Elder Counry Ashbrook district: Vipont mine; Boy, Last Chance, Minnie, Montezuma, Nast, Neptune,
Lucin district: Tecoma Hill mines: Newfoundland dis- Old Jordan, Phoenix, Red Wing. Tiewaukee. U. S. and
trict: Copper Ridge mine: North shore of Great Salt Lark. Winnamuck, Yampa, Yosemite mines: Little
Lake: Park Valley district; Promontory district: Lake- Cottonwood district: Albion, Alta-Galdstone Vein no. 5,
view Mining properties; Rosebud district: Red Buttes; Alta Consolidated. Columbus Consolidated and Wasatch
Willard district: Overland claim, Drainage Tunnel, Columbus Rexal, Dwyer. Emma, Little
Daris Coumy Farmington district: Morning Star group, Emma. Peruvian Consolidated. South Hecla, Superior
Parrish Canyon, mines: Little Cottonwood stock.
Duchcsnc CoulllY Green River Formation, Sail Juall COlinTy Big Indian district: Big Indian Copper
EmelY COllll(l' San Rafael district: Calyx, Dexter mine: Elk Ridge: King Edward mine: La Sal Quadrangle:
Group, Little Susan, Lucky Strike, Luch.-y Strike no. 2, Black Hat. Firefly-Pigmay mines: Monticello district:
Maybe, Temple Mountain mines. Alam, Blue Bird. Copper Queen, Danish Girl, Dream,
Garfield Co 1111 (V Circle Cliffs: Acme. Lone B, Rocky Duckett, Gold Queen mines; Paradox Valley district:
Mountain. Stud Horse mines: Henry Mountains: Brom· Grey Dawn, Vanadium Queen mines: Red Canyon
ide. Oro mines. district: Markey no. 3 mine; White Canyon district:
Gralld Counry Hoosier mine: La Sal district: Bornite Blue Lizard, Fry :Ko. 4, Happy Jack.. Jomac. White
mine: Miner's Basin district: Dillon, M. 1. F .. Moab no. 1, Canyon No.1, W.:K. mines.
Skylark. Tornado mines; Seven Mile Canyon: Shinarump Sal/perc COUIlTY Dry Canyon.
nos. 1·3 claims. Serier COllll(V Rock Candy Mountain; Salina Creek dis-
iroll Coullfy Gold Springs district: Aetna. Independence, trict: Lead Hill mine.
Jennie. Jumbo. Little Buck. Snowflake mines; Iron Summit CoulI(r Marble district; Park City district:
Springs district: Granite Mountain, Iron Mountain; State California, Comstock. Daly. Daly-Judge, Daly West, J. A.
Line district. C. Tunnel. Kearns-Keith, Mayflower, New York, On-
Juab Counry Deseret district: Detroit district: Charm, tario, Silver King, Wabash. Woodside mines.
Copperhead. E. P. H., Ibex mines; Fish Springs district: Tooele COlillty Bingham district: May Flower mine;
Carnation, Emma. Galena. Utah mines: North Tintic Blue Bell district: Bennion Canyon. Little Valley,
district: Tintic Prince mine: Spor Mountain: Bell Hill Morgan mines: Columbia district: Benmore. Sharp,
mine: Tintic district: Black Dragon, Chief Consolidated, Sultana mines; Deep Creek Mountains: Congar Hill,
Iron Blossom. Lower Mammoth. Sunbeam, Swansea Midas, Silver Queen mines: Dugway district: Bertha,
mines; West Tintic district: Iron King, Lockheed, 1903, Bullion Canyon. Four Metals, Kelly's Hole. Metal States,
Scotia. Tintic Western, War Eagle mines. Surplus mines: East Erickson district: Copper Jack.
Millard Cmm(l' Antelope Springs; Detroit district: Dutch Peak. Flying Dutchman. Greens Ridge. Hard-to-
Almond. Blue Bell. Major Drum mines: Gordon district: Beat Canyon, Indianapolis. Sheeprock. Silver King,
Black. Philadelphia. Sulphur King. Victor Conqueror Silver Shield, Tintic-Delaware mines; Erickson district:
mines; House Range: Amasa Valley, North Peak, Painter Black Jack. Black Rock. Blain. Deer Trail. I ndian Boy,
Springs. May Farmer, Silver Reef, Utonia mines: Free Coinage
}\forgall Coullly Argenta district: Carbonate HilL Car- district: Gold Hill district: Alvarado, Cane Springs,
bonate Gem mines: Morgan district: Chi..:ago-Utah. Iron Calaveras, Cash Boy. Climax, Copper Bloom. Copper
King. Morgan Consolidated. Red Eagle mines. Queen-Midland Mining Company. Cyclone. Doctor,
~1Jn~r~h ~nJ MJnrr~1 L()c~litle\ or lit;Jii, Kenneth C. Bull()ck 107
Frankie. Gold Hill (L'- S.), New Baltimore. Pole Star deposit.
Copper Comp:my, Red Jacket. Silver and Gold Mining Fmcrl' CO/llITr Cedar !llountains: Muddy River; Roches-
Company, Success, U. S .. Victory no. I mines; Granite ter: Saucer Basin.
Mountain district: Desert, EI Dorado, Mountain Queen Garfield COl/llly Boulder Mountain: Pleasant Creek:
mines: Greeley district: Grantsville district; Mercur Hutch Pasture: Panguitch; Table Cliff Plateau; Tushar
district: Mineral Hill mines: North Tintic district: Range: Hawkins claims.
New Bullion, Scranton mines: Ophir district: Dry Can- Grand COIlIITY Bald Mesa: Courthouse Wash: Little
yon area - Mono mine: Lion Hill area - Buffalo mine, Grand district: Black Bird, Colorado Fuel and Iron
Chloride Point: Ophir Hill area - Cliff mine, Hidden Company, Desert Rock (Mongol), Dry Lake Wash,
Treasure, Ophir Hill Consolidated, Ophir Coalition, Duma Point, Needles, Salt Wash group, Tenmile Wash,
Sacramento mines: Osceola district: Rush Valley dis- White Wash mines: Muleshoe Wash: Salt Valley: Squaw
trict. A rgen t, Ben Harrison. Calumen t, Galena King, Peak: Wilson Mesa district; White House.
Honerine, Mescatine, Muerbrook, Salvation - Hercules, fran COUIl~l' Antelope Range: Black Jack. Lucky
Tip Top mines; Silver Island district: Carrie Mack Joe, Taylor claims; Cedar Mountains: Black Hawk,
property; Tooele district; Wild Cat Mountains: Silver Joe Louis claims; Escalante district: Clove, Escalante
Queen mine. mines: Stateline district: Creole, Gold Dome, Johnny,
Uilllah Counrr Brown Park area: Carbonate district: OfeL Phelps, Utah Spur mines; Modena property.
Dyer mine; Sun Oil Company South Ouray well: Uteland Juab Counry Deep Creek Mountains: Gold Bond. John-
Knoll district: Ouray. son Canyon. SinglelOn Canyon mines: Detroit district:
Utah County Alpine district: Lucky Chance mine; Iron Blossom mine, Detroit district: Black Boy group,
American Fork district: Bog, Dutchman. Mary Ellen and Charm, Copperhead, E. P. H .. Ibex mines; Mt. Nebo
Live Yankee, Pacific. Silver Dipper, Water FaiL Yankee district: Black Ledge claims; Thomas district: Fluorine
mines: East Tin tic district: Apex, Burgin, Eureka Bullion, Queen mine: Tintic district: Black Jack Empire, White
Eureka Lily, Eureka Standard, Iron King, Larsen Clay Cloud; San Pitch Mountains: Black Jack, Orme proper-
pits, Tintic Standard, Trixie, Zuma mines; North Tintic ties.
district: Lehi-Tintic, Tintic Empire, Tintic Paymaster, Kalle COUWl' Kitchen Corral Canyon.
Selma mines: Payson district: Nelson mine; Provo Millard Countr Detroit district: Almond, Black Dia-
district: Monarch mines: Santaquin district: Black mond. Blue BelL Guy, Last Chance, Major Drum, Mar-
Balsam, Copper Bullion, Santaquin Central mines; Silver tha, Silica Plug mines.
Lake district: Milkmaid, Ontario mines. Piute Counrl' Antelope Range: Dry Canyon; Marysvale
WasaTch Counrl' Blue Ledge district: Mayflower mine. district: Blackbird, Blue Miami Moon no. I mines;
Washington COllnrr Silver Reef district. .1111. Baldy district: Deer Trial mine; M1. Belknap, Ohio
Wayne COUI/~l' Fruita: Oyler mine: Miners Mountain district: Bully Boy and Webster mines, Gilbert claims.
district. Rich County Bear River Range: Lakeview claims,
Weher COUII!,l' Fremont Island district: Sierra Madre Salt Lake CounTY Big Cottonwood district: Carbonate,
district: King Solomon, Napoleon-~1aghera mines, Cardiff, Woodlawn mines; Bingham district; Camp
Williams: Evans Lime Quarry; Little Cottonwood
PYROLUSITE district: Emma, Little Emma. Michigan - Utah mines.
Sanpete Coumy M1. Pleasant.
Manganese dioxide, MnO". Tetragonal. Rarely in Sel'ier COUIl!Y Henry district: Iron Peaks, Georgia,
crystals that are well-developed, commonly in composite Jumbo, Yellow Hornet. Krotke Iron, Nooday, Trinity
subparallel groupings of minute crystals. Usually massive mines; Sevier Plateau,
columnar: also in coatings, concretionary forms, granular SummiT County Beaver Canyon; Coalville; Park City
to powdery. H. 6 - 6. 5. G. 4. 4 - 5. Cleavage good. district: Daly. Ontario, Silver King, Woodside mines.
Fracture uneven. Brittle. Luster metallic, Color light Tooele COu/llyDeep Creek Mountains: Dewey, Fortuna
steel-gray to iron-gray. Streak black to bluish black. mines, Bluebell district: Bogan, Morgan mines: Colum-
Opaque. bia district: Benmore, Sharp mines: East Erickson
Bearer COUIl!Y Blue Mountains: Black Jack. Susie Q, district: Copper Jack, Silver King, Silver Shield mines;
Claims: Indian Peak district: Steelville, Spor properties; Erickson district: Blackjack. Blackrock. Blain, Deer
NeWlOn district: Black Rock deposit: Pine Grove district; Trail. Indian Boy, May Famler, Huber - Rydalch, Queen
San Francisco district. Mary mines: Ophir district: Lion Hill area: Ophir Hill
Cache Count.!· Hyrum area: Pig Hole Hollow. area - Cliff. Ophir Hill Consolidated. Ophir Coalition
Dagrrll COUllr1' Daggett Chief property: Spring Creek mines.
108 Utah Geolo!!icaJ and Mineral SUTVC). Bulletin I 17. ]981
Pit. Galena. Old Jordan. U. S. and Lark mines: Little Hydrous calcium ura11ium vanadate. Ca(LJ0 2)2V 10028'
Cottonwood stock. ·16H..,0. Occurs as dense botryoidal crusts. coatings.
Sail Juall COlillty La Sal Mountains: White Canyon dis- MetaZollOld. Color purplish to bluish black. Luster
trict: Happy Jack mine. adamantine to waxy. G. 2.9. Streak yellowish brown to
Sericr Coullty Henry district: Trinity prospect. olive. Not fluorescent.
SummiT COUIITY Park City district: Daly-Judge. Daly Emery County San Rafael district: Flat Top Mesa,
West. Jupiter. Keams-Keith, Silver King, Silver King Migliaccio mine, Temple Mountain, South Temple
Consolidated, Woodside mines. - Mountain, South Temple Wash.
Tooele Count!' Blue Bell district: Bennion Canyon mine; Grand County Beaver Mesa: Corvusite nos. 1-3 mines;
Columbia district: Benmore. Sharp. Iron Hope, Sultana Thompsons district: Cactus Rat mines.
mines: Dugway district: Rattler mine: East Erickson Piute COUIl(1' Marysvale district: La Vita prospect.
district: Ekker Canyon, Indianapolis, Silver King mines; Sevier COUIl(l' Henry district: La Veta prospect.
Gold Hill district: Gold Bond, Rodenhouse Wash, star
Dust. Success, U. S. mines; Granite district: Desert, EI
Dorado, Mountain Queen mines; Mercur district; Ophir REALGAR
district: Dry Canyon area; Ophir Hill area - Ophir Hill
Consolidated. Ophir Coalition mines; North Tintic Arsenic sulfide, AsS. Monoclinic. Crystals short pris-
district: Scranton mine. matic. Also granular, compact, crusts. H. 1.5 5-2. G.
Utah CounTY Alpine district: American Fork district: 3. 5. Cleavage good. Sectile. Luster resinous to greasy.
Bog mine; Little Cottonwood stock; East Tintic district: Color aurora-red to orange-yellow. Streak orange-red.
Burgin mine; Silver Lake district: Deer, Silver Creeks, Box Elder COlillty Ashbrook district: Vipont mine.
Wells Canyon. Emery COUlIZV San Rafael district: Camp Bird No.7,
Washington County Silver Reef district. Fuemrol no. 2 mines.
h'eber County Sierra Madre district. Garfield County Coyote Creek district: Hampton mine.
Salt Lake Coullty Bingham district: Butterfield Canyon.
QUENSELITE Tooele Coullty Mercur district: Brickyard. Golden Gate,
Mercur. Sacramento mines.
Hydrous lead manganese oxide, PbMnO')(OH). Mono- Washington COWl(l' Beaver Dam Mountains; Bull Valley
clinic. Crystals tabular: sometimes elongated, striated. district: Pilot claims.
Thin laminae. flexible. H. 2~. G. 6.8. Color black. Lus-
ter metallic to adamantine. RECTO RITE
Utah CounTY East Tintic district: Burgin mine.
Interstratified pyrophyllite and vermiculite.
RABBITTITE Tooele Coun(f Oquirrh Mountains: Manning Canyon
Shale: Stansbury Mountains: Manning Canyon Shale.
Hydrous basic carbonate of calcium magnesium, and Utah County Beverly Hills: Manning Canyon Shale; Lake
uranium, Ca3Mg3(UO:?) (C03)6(OH)4·18H:;0. Mono- Mountain: Manning Canyon Shale, Lehi district: Man-
clinic. Small acicular crystals. Cleavage prismatic. H. 2. ning Canyon Shale; Thorpe Hills: Manning Canyon
5. G. 2. 6. Luster silky. Color pale green. Occurs as an Shale; Wasatch Mountains: Manning Canyon Shale.
efflorescence.
Emery County San Rafael district: Lucky Strike, RED OCHER (See HE.MA TITE)
Lucky Strike no. 2 mines.
REEDMERGNERlTE
RACEWINITE
Sodium boron silicate, NaBSi 30 g . Triclinic. A boron
Hydrous aluminum calcium silicate. A zeolite. Coarsely analogue of albite, authigenic in origin. Crystals stubby
crystalline. but no crystal forms. H. 2. 5. G. 1. 9. Con- prisms with characteristic wedge-shaped ends. usually
choidal fracture. Black in masses. splinters brown to microscopic. H. 6 - 6.5. G. 2_ 7. Cleavage basal perfect.
yellow. Colorless.
Salt Lake COllfl(l' Bingham district: Highland Boy, Duchesne COUlI(,l' Carter Oil Company wells;' Green
Yampa mines. River Formation; Sinclair Mortenson well.
RAlTVITE RHODOCHROSITE
J 111 Utah Geolop:lcal and Mmeral Survey, Bulletin J 17. J 981
\'le\\. VlS!iI Grande. \\edge. Yello\\ Bird. Yip Yip bright lemon yellow.
mines: Montezuma Canyon: Dixie 1\0. I. Lucky Boy. Pill t{' County J\1a;ysvale district: Freedom no. 2 mine.
Ro:l-.. Strawberry. Verdure. West Cliff House 1\0. 8 Sail Juan COl/llty \\11ite Canyon district: Happy Jack
mmes: Paradox Valley district: Grey Dawn. Vanadium mine.
Queen mines.
SAGENITE (See RUTILE)
ROSE QUARTZ (See QUARTZ)
ROSSITE SALEEITE
H\'drous calcium vanadate, CaV 206 -4H 20. TricJinic. Magnesium uraninate phosphate, Mg(U0 2 )2(PO 4)2'
Fiaky to glassy and fibrous structure. Color yellow. -8-1 OH..,O. Tetragonal. Crystals rectangular plates.
H. 2 - 3. G. 2. 5. Luster pearly to \ltreous. Cleavage H. 2\6. -G. 3.27. Color pale yellow, yellowish green.
good. Brittle. Translucent to transparent. Fluoresces brilliant yellow
Gralld COUl1ly Thompsons area; Thompsons district: green.
Ca.::tus Rat. Parco no. 23 mines. Sail Juan Counl)' Paradox VaIJey district: Grey Dawn
mine.
ReBY SILVER
(See PROUSTITE and PYRARGYRITE) SAMARSKITE
SODIUM ANALOGUE Or: HEWETTlTE Highland. Santaquin Chief mines: Tintic dIStrict: Bullion
(See BARNESITE) Beck. Chief Consolidated. Colorado. Eureka Hill. Iron
Blossom. Lower Mammoth. Swamsea mines; Trout
SOUMANSlTE (See WARDlTE) Creek district; West Tintic district: Lockheed Iron,
Scotia mines.
SPADAlTE Millard Coullty Leamington district: Wood Canyon.
Piute ('0l1l1(1' Gold Mountain district: Annie Laurie
Hydrous magnesium silicate, perhaps M-gSi0 3 -H 20. mine; Mt. Baldy district: Clyde, Deer Trail mines: Ohio
Amorphous. Has a massive habit. H. 2. 5. Color reddish. district: Bully Boy and Webster. Cascade. Great Western,
Tooele COlm~l' Deep Creek Mountains: Midas mine; Shamrock mines.
Gold Hill district: Alvarado. Cane Springs. Rube mines. SaIl Lake County Big Cottonwood district: American
Metals. Antelope. Cardiff. Howell-Baby McKee, Max-
SPANGOLITE field, Prince of Wales, Reed and Benson. Silver Moun-
tain, Woodlawn mines: Bingham district: Boston Consol-
Hydrous basic sulfate of copper and aluminum, CU6Al- idated, Brooklyn, Burning Moscow, Butterfield, Carr
(S04)(OH)12CI·3H20. Hexagonal. Occurs in very small Fork, Dalton and Lark, Dixon, Eagle Bird Lode, Frisco,
crystals, either short prismatic or tabular. H. 2. G. 3. 1. Galena, Highland Boy. Last Chance, NasI, Neptune, Old
Fracture conchoidal. Cleavage good. Brittle. Luster vitre· Jordan, Queen, Tiewaukee, U. S. and Lark, Winnamuck,
ous. Color dark green, Bluish green. Yampa, Yosemite mines; Little Cottonwood district:
Juab County Tintic district. Columbus Consolidated and Wasatch Drainage Tunnel,
Swyer. Emma, Little Emma. South Hecla, Superior
SPECULA RITE (See HEMATlTE) mines.
San Juan Coun~l' Big Indian district: Mi Vida mine;
SPESSARlTE (See GARNET) Monticello district: Blue Bird, Danish Girl, Dream,
Gold Queen mines; Paradox Valley district: Grey Dawn
SPHAEROCOBALTITE mine: White Canyon district: Happy Jack mine.
(See COBALTOCALCITE) Sallpete Coullty Dry Canyon.
Sevier Coullty Salina Creek district: BalL Lead Hill
SPHALERITE mines.
Summit COUll~l' Park City district: California, Com-
Zinc sulfide. ZnS. Isometric. Often in tetrahedrons and stock, Daly. Daly Judge, Daly West, Kearns - Keith, May-
dodecahedrons. Also cleavable masses. coarse to fine flower, Ontario, Silver King. Woodside mines.
granular. fibrous, concretionary, botryoidal. H. 3. 5-4. Tooele Coun(l' Bingllam district: May Flower mine; Blue
G. 4. Cleavage perfect dodecahedral. Brittle. Luster Bell district: Bennion Canyon mine; Columbia district:
resinous. Color yellow, brown, black, resinous. Color Sharp, Benmore mines: Deep Creek Mountains: Congar
yellow. brown, black, depending upon iron content. HilL Cyclone, Devils Pit, Eagles Nest, Gold Star, Leap
Streak brownish to light yellow. Year, Oro del Rey _ Overland mines; Dugway district:
Bertha, Bryan, Buckhorn, Eureka. Francis. Kellys Hole,
Beaver Coullty Bradshaw district: Cave mine~ Granite Surplus mines; East Erickson district: Indianapolis,
district: Beaver View mine; Lincoln district: Lincoln Tintic Delaware mines; Erickson district: Black Jack,
mine: San Francisco district: Beaver Carbonate, Cupric, Black Rock. Blain, Deer TraiL Indian Boy. May Farmer,
Peacock Copper, Washington mines; Star district: Utonia mines; Gold Hill district: Bonanza. Cash Boy,
Harrington-Hickory, Hub. Moscow, Red Warrior, Vicks- Climax, Copper Queen-Midland Mining Company, Gold
burg, White Rock. Wild Bill mines. Bond, Gold Hill (U. S.), Rube, Silver and Gold Mining
Box Elder County Ashbrook district: Vipont mine; Company, Success, U. S. mines: Norti] Tintic district:
Lucin district: Tecoma Hill mine; Park Valley district: New Bullion. Scranton mines; Ophir district: Dry
Century. Susannah mines. Canyon area - Mono mine; Ophir Hill area - Cliff, Hidden
Emery County San Rafael district: Calyx, Dirty Devil, Treasure, Ophir Hill Consolidated, Ophir Coalition,
Fuemrol No.2. Lucky Strike mines. Sacramento mines: Rush Valley district: Ben Harrison,
Grand ('ount.1' Ryan Creek Scheelite prospect. Calumet, Galena King. Honerine. Mescatine. Muerbrook,
Juab ('millry Deep Creek Mountains. Trout Creek mine. Tip Top mines.
Fish Springs district: Carnation, Emma, Galena mines; Utah COUllTr American Fork district: Bay State, Bog.
Mt. Nebo district: Ajaxto no. 2, Eva. Freddie Lode, Dutchman. Pacific. Silver Dipper. Water Fall, Yankee
Mincrall and Mineral LocJlilJe, of ltah. Kenneth C. Bulluck 117
SPHE\T STEIGERITE
Calcium titanosilicatc. CaTiO(Si0 4 ). Monoclinic. Crys- Hydrous aluminum vanadate, A1 2(V0 4)2' 6l6H 20' Cryp·
tals \'aried in habit. commonly wedge-shaped. Cleavage tocrystalline. Occurs as pulverulent coatings. which re-
good. H. 5-5. 5. G. 3. 5. Luster resinous to adamantine. semble gum·like masses, chalcedony and flat plates.
Color gray, green, brown, yellow, black. Luster waxy. Color canary yellow.
Bearer COUll ty San Francisco district. Gralld Coullty Thompsons district: Cactus Rat mines.
Juab County West Tintic district.
Salt Lake CouIl'Y Little Cottonwood stock.
STELLERITE
San Juall Coullty La Sal Mountains: Middle Mountain,
Brumley Ridge.
Hydrous calcium aluminum silicate, CaAJ 2 Si 7 018'
Tooele County Gold Hill district: Frankie mine; Ophir
o7H/0. Orthorhombic. A zeolite. Crystals tabular.
district: Ophir Hill area - Ophir Hill Consolidated, Ophir
Clea~age perfect. H. 3. 5-4. G 2. 1. Associated with
Coalition mines.
volcanic rocks.
Utah Coullty Little Cottonwood stock: Silver Lake
Piure County Circleville Mountain.
district: Deer Creek.
SPI]\EL STEPHANITE
Magnesium aluminate, MgA1 20 4 . Isometric. Habit Silver antimony sulfide, Ag 5 SbS 4 . Orthorhombic.
usually octahedral. Also massive, coarse granular to com- Crystals short prismatic to tabular. Also massive, com-
pact. H. 7. 6-8. G. 3. 5. Octahedral parting. Fracture pact, or disseminated. H. 2-2. 5. G. 6. 2. Cleavage im-
conchoidal. Brittle. Luster vitreous. Color red to blue, perfect. Fracture uneven. Brittle. Luster metallic.
Color and streak iron black. Opaque.
green, brown to nearly colorless.
Juab Count)' Tintic district: Humbug mine.
Beal'er County Granite district: Gamet group.
Salt Lake County Little Cottonwood district: Emma,
Daggett County Red Creek Complex.
Little Emma mines.
San Juan County Moses Rock dike.
Tooele County Ophir district: Dry Canyon area - Mono
Summit Count)' Park City district.
mine.
Tooele County Gold Hill district: Unadine mine.
Utah County American Fork district: Lake Solitude.
h'asaldz County Clayton Peak.
Washington County Mineral Mountain: Emma mine. STERRETTITE (see KOLBECKITE)
STIBICONITE
STRINGHAMITE SULVANITE
Hydrous Copper calcium silicate, CuCaSi0 4 "2H 20. Copper vanadium sulfide, CU3 VS 4 . Isometric. Crystals
Monoclinic. Crystalline to botryoidal as a fracture mling. cubic: usually massive. H. 3, 5. G. 4. Cleavage basal
Mincrah and \lJncrai L0calilin of l'tah. Kenneth C. Bullock 119
perfec!. Color bronze-gold. Luster metallic. tarnishing with fibrous structure: embedded nodules. sometimes
dull Smak black. Opaque. dense or chalky. H. 3 - 3. 5. G. 2. 6. Fibers not flexible.
To(}ele COlin fl' Me rcur district. Luster silky to dull or earthy. Color white to buff or
Utah COl/llfl' Thorpe Hills: Cedar Fort member of straw yellow.
Oquirrh Formation. BeaJ'er County Beaver Lake district: West Spring.
Salt Lake County Big Cottonwood district: Mountain
SUSSEXITE Lake mine.
SYLVITE TENNANTITE
Potassium chloride. KCl. Isometric. Crystals usually Copper iron arsenic sulfide, (Cu,Fe)12As4S13' Iso-
cubic. Also massive. coarsely granular to compact, metric. Crystals tetrahedral. Also massive, coarse or fme,
crusts. H. 2. G. 1. 9. Cleavage perfect cubic. Not as granular to compact. H. 3 - 4. 5. G. 4. 6 - 5. 1. Fracture
brittle as halite. Luster vitreous. Colorless or white; subconchoidal to uneven. Rather brittle. Luster metallic.
grayish. bluish. yellowish. reddish. Taste sharp, bitter. Streak black to brown to cherry-red. Opaque.
Grand COUllt)' Cane Creek: Texas Gulf Potash mine; B()x Elder Coullty Ashbrook district: Vipont mine.
Crescent Junction; Paradox Basin; Salt Valley; Seven Emery County San Rafael district: Dexter Group,
Mile Canyon. Temple Mountain mines.
Sall.luan COlllZty Moab Valley; Paradox Valley. Juab C()Ullty Tintic district.
Tooele COUIlt)' Great Salt Lake Flats; Salduro; Wend- Rich COllllt)' Swan Creek district: Victoria prospect.
over. Salt Lake Coullly Bingham district: Tiewaukee mine.
Sail Juan COUIlTY Elk Ridge: I-:.ing James-Virgene mine;
SZAIBELYITE La Sal Quadrangle: Firefly-Pigmay mine.
Tooele Coullty Dugway district: Bertha claim; Gold
Hydrous manganese magnesium borate. (Mg, Mn) Hill district: Gold Hill (U. S.). Success mines; Ophir
BO,H. Orthorhombic. Occurs as veinlets or masses district: Ophir Hill area - Ophir Hill Consolidated, Ophir
-'
12(1 Utah Geolol'ical and Mineral Survey, Bulletin 117, 1981
TITANOCLINOHUMITE
THmlPSONITE
Magnesium silicate titanium oxide, (Mg 2 Si0 4 )4 -Ti-
A zeolite, NaCa2AI5Si5020-6H20. Orthorhombic. (OH,F)202' G. 3_27. Occurs with kimberlite. Bright
Distinct crystals rare. Commonly columnar, in radiated yellow color.
spherical concretions, and closely compact. H. 5. G. 2.2. San Juan County Moses Rock dike.
Cleavage good. Brittle. Luster vitreous to pearly. Color
white. reddish green, brown.
Piure County Marysvale district: Silica Hills. TOBERMORITE
Salt Lake County Bingham district: Bingham Copper
Pit. Hydrous calcium silicate, Ca SSi 6 0 17 -5H 20. Orthor-
Tooele Count)' Rush Valley district: Settlement Canyon. hombic. H. 2~. G. 2A. Luster silky. A zeolite. Occurs as
Utah County East Tintic district. compact, fme-grained aggregates. Color white, gray,
pinkish.
Emery County San Rafael district: Delta, Dirty Devil
THO RITE mines.
Salt Lake County Bingham district: Bingham Copper Pit.
Thorium silicate. ThSi0 4 . Tetragonal. Occurs as short
square prisms, and irregular forms. H. 4.5-5. GA.5-6.7. TOPAZ
Brittle. Color brownish yellow, reddish brown, and dark
brown to black. Aluminum fluosilicate, AI 2(Si0 4 )(F,OH)2' Orthorhom-
Sel'ier Coumy Monroe Canyon. bic. Usually in prismatic crystals. Also in crystalline
masses, fine to coarse granular. H. 8. G. 3.4. Cleavage
THUCHOLITE basal perfect. Luster vitreous. Colorless, straw yellow,
pink, bluish, greenish.
Radioactive mineral hydrocarbon. composition in- Beaver County Granite district: Miller mine; Mooney
definite. Color jet black to brown-black. H. 2. 5-4. Springs; Pine Grove district: Pine Grove Associates mine;
G. 1. 5-2. Luster resinous. Conchoidal fracture. Com- Wal1 Wah Mountains: Violet claims.
monly brittle. Also may be friable. Opaque. Juab County Dugway Range; Thomas Range; Topaz
Emcn' COUlIl)' San Rafael district: Calyx mine, Temple Mountain.
Mountain. Tooele COU1lty Dugway district; Ophir district: Ophir
12: Ulah Geolof:lcal and Mineral Survey. Bulletin J 17, 198J
Hill area - Hidden T rcasure mme. no. 1. Yellow Hammer mines: Granite Mountain district;
Mercur district.
TORBEIU-.iITE
TRA VERTINE (See CALCITE)
Hydrous copper uranium phosphate. Cu(U0:;):;(P04):;'-
8-1:;H ')0. Tetragonal. Crystals thin to thick tabular, TREMOLITE
usually":" square in outline. Also foliated._ micaceous,
and scaly aggregates. H. :::-2. 5. G. 3.:::. Cleavage perfect Basic calcium magnesium silicate, Ca2Mg5(SiS022)-
basal. Laminae ra ther brittle. Luster vi treous. pearly. (OH):;. Monoclinic. Crystals pnsmatic. Often bladed,
Color emerald green. Streak paler than the color. in radiating columnar aggregates. Also coarse to fine
BeOlw COllll(r Newton district: Indian Creek. Sniffer granular, compact. H. 5-6. G. 3-3.3. Cleavage prismatic.
and Mystery claims. Luster vitreous. Color white to light green.
Emery Coullty Green River district: Venura. Yellow Beal'er Count)' Bradshaw district; Granite district:
Queen claims: San Rafael district; Copper Globe district: Big Pass, Bismuth mines; Lincoln district; Star district:
Flat Top Mesa. Temple Mountain. Lady Bryan, Moscow mines; White Mountain: Grampian
Garfield COlIll(V Circle Cliffs: Acme. Black Widow. Hill.
Blue Goose. Horse Head. Rocky Mountain. Stearn Boat Dm'is COUllt)' Bear Canyon.
mines: Oak Creek prospect; Spotted Dog claim. Juab County West Tintie district.
Aane County Bulloch claims; Virgin River. ,",fillard COUIlZl' House Range: Amasa Valley, Notch
Piure COUIltl' Antelope Range; Marysvale district: Peak intrusive.
Bullion Monarch. Copper Butte. Freedom Nos. 1-2, Salt Lake Count)' Little Cottonwood district: Alta
Prospector Nos. 1 and 3 mines. mine, Alta Stock contact zone.
San Juan Coullty La Sal Mountains; Monument Valley Sevier COUIlZl' Henry district: Trinity prospect.
district: Skyline mine: Paradox Valley district: Grey Tooele COllllZl' Gold Hill district: Lucy L. mine; Ophir
Dawn mine; Red Canyon district: Markey no. 3, Posey district: Ophir Hill area - Cliff, Ophir Hill Consolidated,
mines: White Canyon district: Happy Jack, Hideout, Ophir Coalition mines. .
\\". N. mines.
Sanpete County R. A. J. prospect.
Lantah Coullty Snow claims. TRIDYMITE
~j'ayne COlm(l' Capitol Reef Monument: Fruita: Oyler
mine. Silicon dioxide, SiO .... Alpha tridymite orthorhombic;
beta tridymite hexagonal. Crystals usually thin tabular.
TOURMALINE Also in twins or united in fan-shaped groups. H. 7. G. 2.
3. Cleavage poor. Fracture conchoidal. Luster vitreous.
Complex silicate of boron and aluminum, XY 3Al6- Colorless to whlte. Occurs in acidic volcanic rocks.
(B0 3 )3(Si6 0 1S )(OH)4' X = Na. Ca and Y - Al, Fe, Li, Tooele COUllt)' Fairfield quadrangle.
Mg. Hexagonal. Usually in crystals which are prismatic,
vertically striated. Also massive compact. coarse to fine TROILITE (See PYRRHOTITE)
columnar, either radiating or parallel. H. 7-7. 5. G.
3-3. :. Luster vitreous to resinous. Color varies with TRONA
composition. Common iron toumlaline (schorlite) is
black. Also red. pink, green. blue, yellow. Hydrous sodium acid carbonate, Na3H(C03)2'2H20.
Beal'er COllll(l' Bradshaw district; Lincoln district; Monoclinic. Authigenic mineral from cuttings in Green
Pruess district: Blackbird, Cactus mines. Cactus, Copper River Formation. Cleavage perfect. Fracture uneven.
Gulches. H. 2. 5-3. G. 2. 1. Luster vitreous. Colorless, gray,
Juab COUllt)' Spring Creek district: Queen of Sheba yellowish. Taste alkaline.
mine. Ducizesne COUlllY Green River Formation.
Millard Count)' House Range: Amasa Valley.
San Juan Counfl' White Canyon district: Happy Jack TROOSTITE (See WILLEMITE)
minc.
Tooele COUlllY Gold Hill district: Calaveras. Centennial TSCHEFFKINITE (See CHEVKINITE)
and Enterprise. Copper Blool11, Doctor. Frankie, Gold
Bond. Pole Star Copper Company. Reaper, Victory TSCHERMIGIT (See AMMONIA ALUM)
MinCTJh and '-hnna! LOl'a!i1ic' of U1ah. Kenneth C Bullod: 123
Juab COUll ty Honeycomh Hills. district: Posey mine: White Canyon district: Bell, Happy
Mnrf?illl COl//I{Y Arthur Fork. Jack. Hideout. White Canyon no. I mines.
Piutc C(Jlm n' Marysvale district: Buddy. Bullion MOil-
arch. Freedom Lease. Freedom nos. 1-2. Prospector URANOPILITE
nos. I and 3 mines: Mt. Baldy district: Deer Trail mine.
Sail Juan CmmT.1' Big Indian district: Big Buck, Cal Hydrous basic uranium sulfate, (U0 2 )6S04(OH) 10-
Uranium. Homestake. La Sal. Mi Vida, Radon. Rattle- '12H'10. Probably monoclinic. Occurs as velvety crusts,
snake mines: Elk Ridge: Avalanche No~ 13. Horse- globular. or reniform masses, composed of microscopic
shoe No.1. King Edward. King James-Virgene, Oakie, crystals, elongated and flattened. G. 3. 8. Cleavage
Payday. Sandy Nos. ::' and 3, Western Payday, Wooden- perfect. Luster silky. Color bright yellow. Fluoresces
shoe No.3 mines; La Sal Quadrangle: Black Hat, Fire- bright yellowish green.
fly-Pigmay. Little Peter. Yellow Bird mines; Monu- Piute Coun~,' Marysvale district: Bullion Monarch,
ment Valley: Holiday Mesa, Mitten no. 1, Skyline Prospector no. I mines.
mines: Paradox Valley district: Grey Dawn, Vanadium San Juan County White Canyon district: Happy Jack
Queen mines; Red Canyon district: Frey no. 4, Markey mine.
no. 3, Posey mines; White Canyon district: Black Lizard, Wayne County Capitol Wasl1.
Fry No.4, Happy Jack, Hideout, Notch, White Canyon
no. 1 W. N. mines. URANOSPATHITE
Tooele Coullty East Erickson district: Flying Dutch-
man, Hard-to-Beat, Sheeprock Canyons, Silver King Hydrous copper uraninate, arsenate, phosphate,-
mines. Cu(U0 2)2 [(As.P,l04 12' 12H 2). Probably tetragonal.
Wayne Countl' Fruita: Oyler mine. Occurs as fan shaped groups of flat plates. G. 2.5. Color
Weber COUfl(J' Ogden Canyon. yellow to pale green, bluish green.
San Juan County Paradox Valley district: Grey Dawn
URANITE (See AUTUNITE and TORBERNITE) mine.
Emery Coull(l' San Rafael district.
URANOSPINITE
URANOCHER (See URANOPILITE)
Hydrous calcium uranium arsenate, Ca(U02)2(AsO~4-
URANOCIRCITE (See META-URANOCIRCITE) 'JOH'10. Tetragonal. Crystals thin tabular. H. 2-3. G. 3.
4. Cleavage distinct. Luster pearly. Color lemon-yellow
URANOPHANE to yellow-green.
Juab Count)' Honeycomb Hills.
Hydrous basic calcium uranium silicate, Ca(U0 2)1' Aalle Coullty Paria.
Si::,07·6H20. Monoclinic. Crystals are minute needles,
with poorly developed faces. Occurs in radiating aggre- URANOTHALLITE (See LIEBIGITE)
gates, massive. fibrous. Cleavage perfect. H. 2. 5. G_ 3. 8.
Brittle. Luster vitreous to pearly. dull to waxy. Color UT AHITE (See CARPHOSIDERITE)
lemon yellow, pale straw yellow. honey brown, greenish
yellow, orange yellow. Weakly fluorescent. UT AHLITE (See V ARISCITE)
Beaver C()UIl~l' Newton district: Sniffer and Mystery
claims: Pine Grove district: Staats (Monarch) mine. UTAH ONYX (See CALCITE)
Emery C()UIl~l' San Rafael district: Delta mine.
Garfield County Circle Cliffs: Black Widow, Horse UVANITE
Head mines; Henry Mountains.
Juab Coullty Honeycomb Hills; Thomas Range: Good Hydrous uranium vanadate, U 2V 602 I -15H 20. Ortho-
Will, Yellow Chief mines, Topaz Mountain. rhombic. Occurs as minute cl)'stalline masses and
Piute COUll ~l' Marysvale district: Bullion Monarch, coatings. Cleavage good. Color brownish yellow.
Copper Butte. East Slope no. 2, Papsy's Hope, Prospec- Emery COllllt)' San Rafael district: Flat Top Mesa,
tor no. 1 mines. Temple Mountain. Wild Mountain mine. Temple Rock,
San Juan County Elk Ridge: Sandy No.3 mine; Monu- South Temple Wash.
ment Valley district: Oljeta, Skyline, \\1lirlwind mines;
Paradox Valley district: Grey Dawn mine; Red Canyon UV AROVITE (See GARNET)
.\1incrals and Mineral Locahtles of Utah. Kenncth C. Bullock 125
Hydrous C<1pper vanadate. CU3(V04)~·311~O. Mono- Consolidated. Ophir Coalition. Sacramento mines;
clinic. Occurs as scaly. spongy. or fibrous crusts: also as Rush Valley district: Honerine mines.
rosette-like aggregates. H. 3.5. G. 3.5. Cleavage perfect. Utah COUI1TV American Fork district: Miller mine;
Luster vitreous to pearly. Color dark olive-green, yellow- East Tintic district: Tintic Standard mine; Lehi district:
ish green. Wildcat mine; North Tintic district: Oxen mine, Tip
Daggc[/ County Red Creek, Yellow Canary Uranium Top Tunnel; Utah district: Alpha. Emerald. Lucky Boy,
deposit. Queen of the West, Spalding. Trotter mines.
Grand COUlltF Richardson district.
San Juall COUJ1Z1' Elk Ridge: Notch 1'-:0. 5 and 6 mines. WARDITE
Utah COlllI~l' Thorpe Hills.
Washingtoll COUll ~r Silver Reef district: B Reef. Hydrous sodium aluminum phosphate, J\aAI 3(P0 4 )2-
Tecumseh HilL Wells mines. (OH)4 - 2H~O. Tetragonal. Crystals are pyramidal. Also
granular aggregates and crusts, radially fibrous, con-
VOLCHONSKOITE centrically banded spherulites. H. 5. G. 2. 8. Cleavage
perfect. Luster vitreous. Color blue-green to pale green,
A chromium nontronite. Monoclinic. H. 2.5, G. 2.1. colorless.
Color bluish to grass green. Box Elder County Utahlite Hill.
Grand COUI1~1' Morrison Formation. Tooele County Amatrice Hill.
San Juan Coullty Morrison Formation. Utah County Clay Canyon.
VOLTAIrE WAVELLITE
Hydrous potassium iron sulfate, K~Fe5Fe4(S04)12' Hydrous basic aluminum phosphate, A1 3 (OH)3(P0 4 )2-
·18H ... O. Isometric. Crystals cubic, octahedral. H. 3. -5H..,O. Orthorhombic. Crystals rare. Usually occurs as
G. ~.-7. No cleavage. Fracture conchoidal. Luster resi- hemispherical or globular aggregates with radial struc-
nous. Color greenish black to black. Opaque. ture. Also as crusts or stalactitic. H. 3. 5-4. G. 2. 3.
Emery Cou/lty San Rafael district: Calf Mesa, Dexter Cleavage perfect. Fracture uneven. Brittle. Luster vitre-
group. ous. Color greenish white. green. yellow. brownish,
Utah CouJ1Zl' East Tintic district. blue, white, colorless.
Salt Lake Coullty Bingham district: Bingham Copper
WAD Pit.
clinic Perfect basal cleavage. H. 4-S. G. 3. 1. Brittle. dom no. 2. Prospector no. I mines.
Structure foliated. micaceous. Color leek-green. 5'all .Juan COlllln' Elk Ridge: King James-Virgene mine;
.)'al! Lake COUIII)" Big Cottonwood district: Big Cotton- Red Canyon district: Posey mine, White Canyon dis-
wood. Mountain Lake mines. trict: Happy Jack. Hideout, W. K mines.
Wal'lIe COl/IlZ)' Fruita: Oyler mine; Grand Wash to
XENOTIME Capitol Wash.
Isometric. Occurs in minute transparent tetrahedrons. at Carr Fork. Bingham. Utah: Economic Geology,
H. 7. C. 2. 9. Coiorless to brown. Common zoned. \'.73, p. 1326-1365.
Juah COl/lIT)' Tinti.:: district: Mintintic property.
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APPENDIX
San Juan County, Utah: U. S. Geological Survey
Professional Paper 453, 110 p. Minerals of Utah
Young. E. J., and H. A. Powers, 1960, Chevkinite in The list below contains 706 names which appeared
volcanic ash: American Mineralogist, v. 45, p. 875- in Chapter III. Of these, 134 are duplicate mineral
880. names, rock terms, or hydrocarbon names, and were
not programmed in the computer analyses reported in
Young, E. J., A. D. Weeks, and R. Meyrowitz, 1966, the remaining five lists. If a mineral has two names, the
Coconinoite, a new uranium mineral from Utah and one that has priority or more common usage was used
Arizona: American Mineral v. 51, nos. 5-6, p. 651- in the computer analysis, and the second rank name is
663. indicated as follows: Adularia (See Orthoclase).
Utah Minerals Listed Under Selected Metallic Elements Barytocalcite COBALT MINERALS (9)
Burbankite
Thirty metallic elements were selected by the author for Danburite Annabergite
consideration in this compilation. Most of these elements Garrelsite Bieberite
have formed ore deposits of actual or potential economic Hollandite Cobaltite
value in Utah; few metallic elements such as chromium, Leucospheni te Cobaltocalcite
cobalt, nickel, and tin occur in minerals that may have Meta-Uranocircite Cobaltomenite
only mineralogical significance. An alphabetical listing Psilomelane Cryptomelane
of the thirty selected metallic elements is given below. Erythrite
After each element is a list of Utah minerals containing BERYLLIUM MINERALS (4) Gersdorffite
it. The numbers in parentheses indicate the number of Smaltite
minerals in each list. Allanite
Bertrandite COPPER MINERALS (76)
ANTIMONY MINERALS (23) Chalcophyllite Beryl
Chenevixite Helvite Aikinite
Billingsleyite Claudetite Alaskaite
Bindheimite Clinoclase BISMUTH MINERALS (17) Antlerite
Bismuthian bindheimite Cobaltite Atacamite
Boulangerite Conichalci te Aikinite Aurichalcite
Bournonite Cornwallite Alaskaite Azurite
Cervantite Donkeyite Arsenobismite Balydonite
Dyscarsite Dufrenoysite Bismite Beaverite
Famatinite Enargite Bismoclite Boothite
Geocronite Erinite Bismuth Bornite
] amesoni te Erythrite Bismuthian bindheimite Bournonite
Kermesite Ferrisymplesite Bismuthinite Brochantite
Metastibnite Geocronite Bismutite Calcedonite
Miargyrite Gersdorffite Cosalite Calciovolborthite
Monimolite Lorandite Cuprobismutite Chalcanthite
Polyhasite Luzonite Daubreeite Chalcocite
Pyrargyrite Metazeunerite Emplectite Chalcophyllite
Senarmontite Mimetite Klaprothite Chalcopyrite
Stephanite Mixite Matildite Chenevixite
Stibiconite Niccolite Mixite Chrysocolla
Stibnite Novacekite Tetradymite Clinoclase
Tetralledrite Olivenite Conichalcite
Valentinite Orpiment CADMIUM MINERALS (1) Connellite
Zinkenite Pearceite Copper
Pharmacosiderite Greenockite Cornwallite
ARSENIC MINERALS (49) Pitticite Covellite
Proustite CERIUM MINERALS (5) Crednerite
Abernathyite Realgar Cubanite
Adamite Scorodite Allanite Cuprite
Annabergite Seligmannite Burbankite Cuprobismutite
Arsenic Smaltite Chevkinite Cuprogoslarite
Arseniosiderite Tennantite Monazite Cuprosklodowskite
Arsenobismite Tyrolite Samarskite Cuprotungstite
Arsenopyrite Uranospathite Cyanotrichite
Austinite Uranospinite Descloizite
Balydonite Zeunerite CHROMIUM MINERALS (2) Digenite
Beudantite Donkeyite
Billingsleyite BARIUM MINERALS (9) Chrome mica-clay Emplectite
Carminite Barite Chromite Eucarite
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