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Frisco Contact Mine

Occurrence in Beaver county in Utah, United States with commodities Lead, Zinc
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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. Alteration
  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. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10011338
MRDS ID D005996
Record type Site
Current site name Frisco Contact Mine
Related records 10251166

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.27553, 38.47163 (WGS84)
Elevation 2134
Relative position 2 MILES NW OF FRISCO TOWNSITE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaver(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Frisco(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

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 027S 013W 11 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SW 1/4 SE 1/4 SE 1/4 SEC 11

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Primary

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification, Argillization, Pyrite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.27553, 38.47163
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range
Type of structure Local
Structure description Horn Silver Fault

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Frisco

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • THIS SHAFT WAS SUNK IN HOPES OF FINDING THE NORTH EXTENSION OF THE HORN SILVER FAULT VEIN. IT IS RUMORED TO BE FAIRLY DEEP WITH EXTENSIVE DRIFTING

Comments on development

  • EXCAVATION IN HOPES OF FINDING NORTH EXTENSION OF HORN SILVER FAULT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    STRINGHAM, B, 1967: HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION NEAR THE HORN SILVER MINE, BEAVER CO, UTAH: UGMS SS #16

  • Deposit

    1913 RECON BUTLER, B S, USGS PP #80

  • Deposit

    1920 RECON BUTLER, B S, USGS PP #111

  • Production

    EVERTS, M L, 1979, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UT GEOL AND MIN SUR

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NO PRODUCTION WAS EVER REPORTED

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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