Unknown Prospect

Occurrence in Beaver county in Utah, United States with commodities Iron, Copper
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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010593
MRDS ID D004393
Record type Site
Current site name Unknown Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.12219, 38.52052 (WGS84)
Elevation 1914
Relative position 1 3/4 SOUTH OF LIME MTN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaver(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lime Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wah Wah Mountains North(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 026S 011W 30 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • NE 1/4, NE 1/4, SE 1/4 SEC. 30

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Tertiary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Hematite Ore
Malachite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Hematitization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Orthoquartzite
    Rock unit name Undiff. Lime Mtn & Beaver Lake Dolomite
    Rock description Undiff. Lime Mtn & Beaver Lake Dolomite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Silurian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Silurian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.12219, 38.52052

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin & Range - Western Edge Of Marysvale Volcanic Pile
Type of structure Local
Structure description Local Normal Faults, & Compressive Thrusts

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR VEIN
    Thickness 3.05M
    Length 60.96M
    Width 3.05M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 15.24M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fissure Veins, Joints

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Beaver Lake

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Area 1.402HA
    Length 15.24M
    Overall depth 15.24M
    Overall length 121.92M
    Overall width 121.92M

Comments on the workings information

  • SEVERAL DOZER CUTS, PITS, AND SHAFT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    EVERTS, M.L., 1979; UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY: ON-SITE INVESTIGATION

  • Deposit

    1913 RECON BUTLER, B.S, USGS PP #80

  • Deposit

    1920 RECON BUTLER, B.S., USGS PP #111

  • Deposit

    1960 RECON UGMS BULL #68

  • Deposit

    1963 RECON HEYL, USGS BULL 1135-B

  • Production

    EVERTS, M.L., 1979, GEOLOGIST.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1979 Everts, Michael L. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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