Noonday Prospect

Past Producer in Beaver county in Utah, United States with commodity Fluorine-Fluorite
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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010702
MRDS ID D004604
Record type Site
Current site name Noonday Prospect
Related records 10130294

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.8511, 38.21885 (WGS84)
Elevation 2349
Relative position 2520 METERS NW OF WATER TANK IN SEC 14 T30S R18W

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaver(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pinto Spring(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wah Wah Mountains South(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Pine 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 Beaver

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 030S 018W 10 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS NW 1/4 NE 1/4 NW 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
    Rock unit name Needles Range Formation (Host)
    Rock description Needles Range Formation (Host)
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.8511, 38.21885

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin & Range-Laramide Basement
Type of structure Local
Structure description N-S Trending Faults - Western Rim Of Large Caldera?

Ore body information

  • General form LENS
    Strike N10DEGW
    Dip 45DEGW
    Thickness 0.61M
    Length 12.19M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 9.14M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fissure Zones In Vertical Veins Up To 40 Feet Wide

Comments on the geologic information

  • HOST IS OLIGOCENE WAH WAH SPRINGS TUFF MEMBER OF THE NEEDLES RANGE FM. A GREENISH GRAY WELDED TUFF OF DACITE COMPOSITION

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1941
Discoverer H.C. Eyre-Minersville, Utah
Year of first production 1948

Mining district

District name Washington/Indian Peak

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Amax, Inc.
  • Type Owner
    Owner H. C. Eyre

Comments on the workings information

  • SHALLOW TRENCH, DOZER CUTS, 30 FT INCLINE SHAFT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    THURSTON, W.R. 1954, FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS OF UTAH, USGS BULL 1005.

  • Deposit

    BULLOCK, K.C., 1976, FLUORITE OCCURRENCES IN UTAH: UGMS BULL 110

  • Deposit

    EVERETT, F.D. & WILSON, S.R. 1951, INVEST OF THE COUGAR SPAR FLUORSPAR DEPOSIT, BEAVER CO. UT: USBM RI 4820

  • Deposit

    EVERETT, F.D. & WILSON, S.R., 1950, INVEST. OF J.B. FLUORITE DEPOSIT, BEAVER CO. UTAH: USBM RI 4726

  • Production

    EVERTS, M.L., 1979, GEOLOGIST.

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.

External references