Manassas Mine

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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010753
MRDS ID D004703
Record type Site
Current site name Manassas Mine
Related records 10275697

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.15413, 38.34246 (WGS84)
Elevation 1928
Relative position 2000 FT. NW OF PICACHO PEAK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaver(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Picacho Peak(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 028S 012W 25 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS NE 1/4, SW 1/4, SW 1/4, SEC 25

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Guilmette Formation
    Rock description Guilmette Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Devonian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Devonian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Chemical Sediment > Chert

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.15413, 38.34246

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Colorado Plateau/Basin & Range Transition Zone, Cordilleran Hingeline
Type of structure Local
Structure description Eastward Dipping Homocline (Star Range) Believed To Be Part Of An Eastward Moving Thrust Plate.

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike E-W
    Dip 90 DEG

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Star District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 30.48M
    Overall depth 6.1M

Comments on the workings information

  • 60 FOOT ADIT, PITS, ADIT IS FLOODED

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ABOU-ZIED, S., AND WHELAN, J., A., 1973, GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY OF THE MILFORD FLAT QUADRANGLE, STAR DISTRICT, BEAVER CO., UT, UGMS SPEC. S. 46

  • Deposit

    GEOLOGY OF THE MILFORD AREA, 1973, UTAH GEOL. ASSOC. PUBL. 3.

  • Deposit

    PERRY, L., I., 1976, LEAD AND ZINC IN UTAH: UTAH GEOL. & MIN. SURVEY OPEN FILE REPORT # 22.

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    BAETCKE, G.B., 1969, STRATIGRAPHY OF THE STAR RANGE AND RECONNAISSANCE STUDY OF THREE SELECTED MINES: UNIV. OF UTAH P. HD. THESIS.

  • Deposit

    1962 GEOLMAP BAER, J.L., BYU STUDIES V.9

  • Deposit

    1963 COMPILE HEYL, A.V. USGS BULL 1135-B

  • Deposit

    1973 COMPILE UGA PUBL. #3

  • Deposit

    1973 GEOLMAP UGMS SS #46

  • Production

    EVERTS, M.L., 1979, GEOLOGIST.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1979 Everts, Michael L. Bureau of Land Management
Updater 01-JUL-1985 Shuhat, Michael, A. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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