Economic Geology

By: J. W. Gwynn River Gas Corporation produces approximately 36,000 barrels per day of saline water from the Ferron Sandstone Member of the Mancos Shale as part of its Drunkards Wash coalbed-methane recovery project. Most of the sodium-bicarbonate-chloride produced water is disposed of by...

By: R. W. Gloyn, D. A. Sprinkel, B. T. Tripp, and R. E. BlackettThe Utah State Division of School and Institutional Trust Lands asked the Utah Geological Survey to evaluate existing and potential geologic resources (metallic minerals, industrial rocks and minerals, uranium, geothermal, petroleum,...

By: S. N. Sommer, D. M. Bodily, and E. M. Whitney In 1986, the Utah Geological Survey and the University of Utah's Department of Chemical and Fuels Engineering (formerly Department of Fuels Engineering) entered into a cooperative agreement to collect samples from the coal...

By: D. E. Tabet, B. P. Hucka, and S. N. Sommer Coal seams in the Wasatch Plateau and western Book Cliffs coal fields of Utah have high resinite contents. Resinite, or coal resin, is most abundant in the seams above the Spring Canyon and...

By: R. E. Blackett, C. J. Brandt, T. C. Chidsey, Jr., and C. E. BishopThe Utah Department of Community and Economic Development enlisted the help of the UGS to review and report on the objectives and procedures for mineral resource evaluations performed by federal...

By: A. C. Keith The Utah Geological and Mineral Survey coal quality database includes over 1800 sample records. The quality information is the basis for this report on Utah's economic coal beds. The coal characterization data is intended to define the coal beds at...

By: R. H. Klauk and W. E. MulveyThe purpose of this investigation was to inventory geologic conditions on the property, including geologic hazards, and present that information in a format that would allow the Division of State Lands and Forestry to make informed decisions...

By: J. W. GwynnThe purposes of this investigation are to a) develop an overburden map for the Sunnyside oil-impregnated sandstone deposit, and b) make a determination of the thickness of the oil-impregnated sands within the deposit.The data base used in this investigation consists of...

By: S. N. Sommer and D. A. Foster There were three primary objectives of this study. The first was to describe and photograph a complete section through the Blackhawk Formation. The second was to examine the varying properties the coals contained in the coal...

By: J. W. Gwynn, K. M. Clem, M. A. Shubat, B. T. Tripp, and P. A. SturmThis mineral report was prepared to fulfill the requirements of PL 94-579 Sec. 204 (c)(2) for the emergency withdrawal of a portion of the Great Salt Lake Desert....

By: J. W. Gwynn The Cane Creek mine began as a conventional underground excavation in 1964, but was converted to a system combining solution mining and solar evaporation in 1970. The potash ore, sylvinite, was mined from the K5 potash zone situated near the...

By: B. F. Jones, W. W. White III, K. M. Conko, D. M. Webster, and J. F. KohlerThe Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) conducted a joint three-year field study of Newfoundland Basin?s shallow-brine aquifer and associated playa and lacustrine...

Contains reprints of 10 out of-print items concerning uranium/vanadium. The CD contains the following publications:C-9 Initial report on the Lead Ore mine, Tooele County, Utah, by A. M. Buranek, 1942, 6 p.C-10 Preliminary report on the Milljohn silver-lead claim, Fish Springs District, Juab County,...

By: F. X. Ashland and G. N. McDonaldEmpirical correlation between earthquake ground-motion amplification and the average shear-wave velocity in the upper 30 meters below the ground surface (Vs30) provides the basis of the site classes in the International Building Code. This knowledge allows engineers...

By: W. F. Case Contains data from the Utah Core Research Center catalog of samples. The data includes API number, sample location in longitude/latitude or UTM, sample type, sample intervals, elevations, production zones, formations, and map quadrangles. The searchable catalog on this CD does...

By: G. N. McDonaldGrand County has limited resources of good-quality materials suitable for construction uses. However, the county is sparsely populated and the present demand for sand, gravel, and crushed stone is not high. Most people reside in the towns of Green River, which...

By: D. E. Tabet This study builds on the work of various previous investigators and includes new data from outcrop studies carried out by UGS personnel during the late 1980s as well as recently released coal company drilling and coal-quality data. The coal outcrop...

By: S. P. Knowles This black and white map covers the Jump Creek quadrangle. Information in this publication includes a cross-section and a correlation of map units. This Open-File release makes information available to the public during the review and production period necessary for...

By: D. E. Tabet, B. P. Hucka, and S. N. Sommer Three new maps were prepared of the Upper Cretaceous Ferron Sandstone Member of the Mancos Shale in central Utah to help understand its coalbed gas deposits. The maps show the total net coal...

By: R. W. Gloyn, M. A. Shubat, and B. H. MayesForty-three mines and prospects were examined in the northern Wasatch Mountains of north-central Utah. Areas sampled include the Argenta, Morgan, Farmington, and Hot Springs(City Creek) districts and the Mountain Green area. One-hundred and twenty...