House Range Deposits

Past Producer in Millard county in Utah, United States with commodities Tungsten, Molybdenum, Sulfur-Pyrite
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Production statistics
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10008884
MRDS ID D001370
Record type Site
Current site name House Range Deposits
Alternate or previous names Includes Blackhawk, Mineral Valley, New Klondike, Scheelite Queen.

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.40082, 39.19995 (WGS84)
Elevation 2301
Relative position E. SIDE OF HOUSE RANGE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Millard(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Notch Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tule Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Delta(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Tule Valley(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management UT)

Bureau of Land Management UT BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Millard

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Molybdenum Primary
Sulfur-Pyrite Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Andradite Ore
Molybdenite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Scheelite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Quartz Monzonite Stock
    Rock description Quartz Monzonite Stock
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Marjum Limestone;Weeks Formation;Orr Formation;Notch Peak Limestone
    Rock description Marjum Limestone;Weeks Formation;Orr Formation;Notch Peak Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.40082, 39.19995

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description The House Range, An Anticline With A High Angle Fault
Type of structure Local
Structure description Doming Of Sediment By Igneous Stock

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Contact Between Quartz Monzonite And The Metamorphic Rock, Also Contact Between Aplite And Metamorphic Rock

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Production statistics

  • Year 1943
    Accuracy Accurate
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Wo3 Ore Tungsten Tungsten 0wt-pct

Comments on the production information

  • ITEM 1: BLACK HAWK MINE, ITEM 8: NEW KLONDIKE MINE, ITEM 9: SCHEELITE QUEEN MINE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., UNPUBLISHED DATA.

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., AND TWETO, O.L., 1962, TUNGSTEN IN THE U.S., USGS MAP, MR-25.

  • Deposit

    GEHMAN, H.M., 1958, UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SUR. BULL. 62.

  • Production

    LEMMON, D.M. (UNPUBLISHED DATA)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1973 Elliott, James E. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-NOV-1976 Elliott, J. U.S. Geological Survey PARSED HOST ROCK AND ASSOCIATED ROCK INFORMATION FROM OLD SINGLE VALUED FIELD TO NEW MULTIVALUED FIELD
Editor 09-JUN-1995 Mosier, Dan U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.