Prospects Northwest of Hearn Well

Occurrence in Beaver county in Utah, United States with commodities Zinc, Silver, Lead, 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. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10011242
MRDS ID D005780
Record type Site
Current site name Prospects Northwest of Hearn Well

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.0983, 38.3469 (WGS84)
Elevation 1661
Relative position 1.15 MILES NW OF HEARN WELL

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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Beaver

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 028S 011W 28 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SE 1/4, SW 1/4, NW 1/4 SECTION 28.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Zinc Critical Secondary
Silver Secondary
Lead Tertiary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Argentite Ore
Malachite Ore
Smithsonite Ore
Pyrite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Marble

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Rock unit name Quartz Monzonite
    Rock description Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Kaibab-Plympton
    Rock description Kaibab-Plympton

Nearby scientific data

(1) Arcturus Formation

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range, Sevier Orogenic Belt
Type of structure Local
Structure description Local Faults

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR-TABULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fissures, Joints

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Star

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • SMALL DOZER CUT & SHAFT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Production

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

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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