1. Utah Geological Survey Assistance for County Plans
David E. Tabet, Manager
Energy and Minerals Program
Utah Geological Survey
1594 W. North Temple, suite 3100
January 13, 2016

2. Outline Utah Geological Survey – mission and organization
Overview of Utah energy and mineral resources
Information resources for county plans
Questions

3. Department of Natural Resources Organization
State Governor
DNR Director
Oil, Gas & Mining
State Parks
Water Rights
Forestry, Fire & State Lands
Water Resources
Geological Survey
Wildlife

4. Utah Geological Survey
DIRECTOR
Rick Allis
ENERGY & MINERALS
Dave Tabet
GEOLOGIC HAZARDS
Steve Bowman
Grant Willis
MAPPING
WATER & PALEO
Mike Lowe
INFO & OUTREACH
Mike Hylland
January 2016

5. Utah Geological Survey Mission
Provide timely scientific information about Utah’s geologic environment, resources and hazards (UGS does research, not regulation).
Strong emphasis on outreach. The UGS is committed to cooperation with local, state and federal agencies, universities, industry, and private groups to promote economic development and public safety in Utah. Want to help decision makers and the public be more knowledgeable about natural-resource issues facing the state.

6. 2013 Utah Statistics I
Utah ranked 1st among states in the production of Beryllium concentrates (Materion) and Magnesium metal (US Magnesium) in 2013
2nd in production of Copper (Kennecott)
3rd in production Potash and Magnesium salts (Intrepid – Moab and Wendover; Great Salt Lake Minerals)
4th in Gold, Silver, Molybdenum concentrates (Kennecott) and Phosphate (Simplot)
5th in Salt (Great Salt Lake Minerals, Cargill Salt, Morton International, Redmond)

7. 2013 Utah Statistics II
Utah ranked 7th in the US in 2013 production of non-fuel minerals by state
Utah ranked 11th in natural gas and 11th in oil in the US in 2013 production by state
Utah ranked 14th in the US in 2013 coal production by state

8. Rocky Mountains
Basin and Range
Colorado Plateau
Geologic map of UT

9. oil & gas fields and basins
Utah’s
oil & gas fields and basins

10. Utah’s coal fields and coal-bed gas play areas

11. Uranium Uranium mines and prospects = RED Uranium mills = BLACK
Geologic Province Boundary = YELLOW
Triassic Chinle Formation = BROWN
Jurassic Morrison Formation = GREEN

12. Base and Precious Metal Properties
Bingham
Geologic Province Boundary = YELLOW
Active base and precious metal properties = RED POINTS
Rocky Mountains
Basin
and
Range
Colorado
Plateau

13. Potash Potash mines and occurrences = BLUE POINTS
Great Salt Lake Minerals
Potash mines and occurrences = BLUE POINTS
Penn-Perm Paradox Basin in the = BLUE OUTLINE
Intrepid
Potash -
Wendover
Sevier Lake
Potash Ridge
Paradox
Basin
Intrepid
Potash –
Moab

14. Geothermal Geothermal zones = Pink Polygons
Known geothermal resource areas = Red Polygons
UGS Geothermal Gradient Holes = Green Circles

15. Past County Planning Resources
GOPB Web site circa 1994.
Elements of a county plan at:
UGS helped with the Economic Development aspects.

16. County Resource Management Plan Elements
Prepared by GOPB

17. County Plan - - Resource Specific Index
Main geologic
contribution
County
Plan
- -
Resource
Specific
Index

18. Information Resources
UGS resource publications for the following 9 counties: Box Elder, Carbon, Emery, Garfield, Kane, Piute, San Juan, Sanpete, and Uintah.
State-wide UGS resource studies for following resources:
all commodities (1964), building stone (2008), carbon dioxide (1978), coal (2006), energy (1983, 2014), fluorite (1948), geothermal (1990, 2004), gilsonite (2012), gold placers (1966), high-calcium limestone (2005), iron (1970), lead and zinc (2006), mining districts (1983), non-metallic minerals (1983), oil and gas (2015), phosphate (1957, 1980), renewable energy (2009), tar sands (1979), and uranium and vanadium(2005).
Many site-specific UGS resource studies.
Resource studies of the U.S. Geological Survey.
Mineral reports for recent BLM Resource Management Plans, and various Programmatic resource EISs.

19. QUESTIONS ?