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Sundown Mine

Past Producer in Beaver county in Utah, United States with commodities Lead, Zinc, Copper, Silver, Manganese, Iron, Kaolin
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  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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010371
MRDS ID D003988
Record type Site
Current site name Sundown Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.08052, 38.36635 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaver(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Milford Flat(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wah Wah Mountains South(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

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 011W 028S 22 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Primary
Copper Primary
Silver Primary
Manganese Critical Tertiary
Iron Tertiary
Kaolin Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Hematite Ore
Hemimorphite Ore
Malachite Ore
Manganite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Argillic, Hematization, Sericitization, Kaolinitization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.08052, 38.36635
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Igneous Contact And Fissures

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Star District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ABOU-ZIED, M. S., 1968 , PH. D. THESIS, UNIV. OF UTAH.

  • Deposit

    ABOU-ZIED, M. S., AND WHELAN, J. A., 1973 , UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURVEY SPEC. STUDIES 46 .

Reporter information

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

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