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Unknown Prospects

Past Producer in Beaver county in Utah, United States with commodities Copper, Iron, Manganese, Lead
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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. 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 10011303
MRDS ID D005889
Record type Site
Current site name Unknown Prospects

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.09941, 38.53996 (WGS84)
Elevation 1692
Relative position 1 MILE EAST 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

BLM Administrative Area(land status)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Beaver

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 026S 011W 21 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SW 1/4, NW 1/4, NW 1/4 SEC 21

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Iron Secondary
Manganese Critical Secondary
Lead Secondary

Materials information

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

Alteration

  • (Local) Bleached White-Pink

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Rock unit name Quartz Monzonite Stock;Volcanic Flows
    Rock description Quartz Monzonite Stock;Volcanic Flows
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Lime Mtn (Laketown) Dolomite;Beaver Lake Mtn Dolomite (Host)
    Rock description Lime Mtn (Laketown) Dolomite;Beaver Lake Mtn Dolomite (Host)

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range-Western Edge Of Marysvale Volcanic Pile
Type of structure Local
Structure description Local Normal And Thrust Faults

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 75 E
    Dip 50 N
    Thickness 6.1M
    Length 91.44M
    Width 15.24M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 60.96M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fractures And Joints-N 35 Deg W 70 Deg Sw

Comments on the geologic information

  • SEVERAL ADITS ARE CUT IN A LIGHT PINK QUARTZOSE SANDSTONE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
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 Underground
    Length 152.4M
    Overall depth 30.48M

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFT (100 FT) INCLINE ADIT, SEVERAL OTHER SHORT ADITS HAVE BEEN CUT IN A PINK SANDY UNIT INTERBEDDED WITH THE DARK GRAY MOTTLED BEAVER LAKE DOLOMITE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    EVERTS, M L, AND KRUPICKA, D C, 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, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UT GEOL AND MIN SURV

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.

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