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Sunbeam

Past Producer in Juab county in Utah, United States with commodities Silver, Copper, 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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10020815
MRDS ID DC14039
Record type Site
Current site name Sunbeam
Alternate or previous names United Sunbeam 1922

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.11246, 39.90912 (WGS84)
Elevation 1989
Relative position ONE MILE N - NW OF TREASURE HILL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Juab(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Eureka(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lynndyl(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Delta(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Sevier(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 Juab

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 010S 002W 31 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Copper Primary
Lead Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.11246, 39.90912
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N 25 E
    Dip VERTICAL
    Length 1219.2M
    Width 3.05M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Tintic District

Comments on the workings information

  • A 490 FT SHAFT WITH HEAVY WATER FLOW AT THE BOTTOM.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS MIN RES 1920 - 26 , 1938 - 64

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN, W. AND LOUGHLIN, G. F., 1919 , GEOL & ORE DEP OF TINTIC MINING DIST: USGS PROF PAPER 107 , P. 257

  • Deposit

    TOWER, G. W. AND SMITH, G. O., 1899 , GEOL & MIN IND OF TINTIC DISTRICT: USGS 19TH ANN REPT, PT. 3 - F, P. 762

  • Deposit

    COOK, D. R., 1957 , GEOL. OF E. TINTIC MTNS AND ORE DEP. OF TINTIC MINING DIST.: UTAH GEOL. SOC. GUIDEBOOK #12 , PL. 3 .

  • Deposit

    5) HEYL, A. V., 1963 , OXIDIZED ZN DEP. OF UTAH: USGS BULL. 1135 - B, P. 73 .

  • Deposit

    6) UTAH GEOL. & MIN SURV. BULL. 79 , 1966 , P. 52 .

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit OLDEST MINE IN DISTRICT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1974 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAR-1982 Wong, George (Morris, H.T.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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