Pinnacle Mine

Past Producer in Beaver county in Utah, United States with commodity Tungsten
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Controls for ore emplacement
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Production statistics
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010364
MRDS ID D003978
Record type Site
Current site name Pinnacle Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.81108, 38.57357 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaver(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pinnacle Pass(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Beaver Bottoms-Upper Beaver(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier 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 Beaver
United States Utah Millard

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 009W 026S 01 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.81108, 38.57357

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Intrusive Contact (Tactite) Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Antelope District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Production statistics

  • Year 1954
    Period 1954
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Wo3 Ore Tungsten Tungsten 48wt-pct

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    EVERETT, F. D., 1961 , US BUREAU OF MINES INF. CIRC. 8014 .

  • Deposit

    NACKOWSKI, M. P., AND LEVY, ENRIQUE, 1959 , UTAH ENG. EXP. STATION BULL. 101 .

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1978 Steven, T. A. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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