Mineral resources of the Paria-Hackberry Wilderness study area, Kane County, Utah

Book · Mon Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 1990

OSTI ID:7307798

Bell, H; Bush, A L; Tumer, R L; Cady, J W ^[1]; Brown, S D; Hannigan, B J; Thompson, J R ^[2]

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1. U.S. Geological Survey (US)
2. US Bureau of Mines (US)

The Paria-Hackberry Wilderness Study Area, in central Kane County, southern Utah, is region of generally flat-lying, gently folded Jurassic and Cretaceous sedimentary rocks bonded on the east by the east-dipping limb of the East Kaibab Monocline and cut by sheer-walled, narrow canyons. The area selected for study by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management totaled 94,642 acres (148 square miles); because of uncertainty as to final boundaries, the U.S. Geological Survey studies an additional contiguous 41,180 acres (64 square miles). No identified resources of metals or nonmetallic minerals are present in the study area. An unsuccessful attempt to recover flour from the Chinle Formation was made in the early part of the century at the now-abandoned townsite of Paria. The mineral resource potential for all metals, including gold, uranium, barium, silver, strontium, arsenic, antimony, mercury, copper, manganese, cadmium, and zinc, is low for the entire Paria-Hackberry Wilderness Study Area. The likelihood of occurrence of decorative-use gypsum and of sand and gravel is moderate in limited areas of the northern part of the wilderness study are and, for sand and gravel, in a few small occurrences along the Paria River valley. A moderate energy resource potential is assessed for oil and gas and a low potential for geothermal energy, for the entire study area. There is no energy resource potential for coal.

• OSTI ID: 7307798
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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