Contact Claim

Past Producer in Beaver county in Utah, United States with commodity Tungsten
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. Ownership information
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10011336
MRDS ID D005986
Record type Site
Current site name Contact Claim
Alternate or previous names Contact Fraction Claim
Related records 10178878

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.78412, 38.34497 (WGS84)
Elevation 1975
Relative position 6 MILES NORTH OF ADAMSVILLE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaver(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Adamsville(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Beaver(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 008W 29 Utah

Comments on the location information

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

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore
Garnet Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Scarn

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Lincoln Quartz Monzonite Stock
    Rock description Lincoln Quartz Monzonite Stock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Moenkopi Formation (Host);Tailsman Quartzite;Callville-Pakoon Undiff;Redwall Formation
    Rock description Moenkopi Formation (Host);Tailsman Quartzite;Callville-Pakoon Undiff;Redwall Formation
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.78412, 38.34497

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin & Range
Type of structure Local
Structure description Faults (North-Trending)

Ore body information

  • General form POD LIKE
    Strike NE
    Dip NW
    Thickness 9.14M
    Length 60.96M
    Width 3.96M
    Depth to bottom 9.14M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fractures, Shear Zone, Scarn Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1941
Year of first production 1944

Mining district

District name Granite/Mineral Range

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Daily Metal Mines Inc.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Mc Garry, Ambrose
    First year 1944

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Area 0.044HA
    Overall length 30.48M
    Overall width 15.24M

Comments on the workings information

  • 3 SHAFTS, SEVERAL TRENCHES

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HOBBS, SW, 1944: TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS IN BEAVER COUNTY, UTAH: USGS BULL 945-D, P 106

  • Deposit

    CRAWFORD, A L, 1957, TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF THE MINERAL RANGE, BEAVER COUNTY, UTAH/WITH MINE MAP: UTAH GEOL AND MINERAL SURVEY REPRINT #56

  • Deposit

    1944 COMPILE HOBBS, S W BULL 945-

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-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.