Cactus Mine

Past Producer in Beaver county in Utah, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Silver, Lead, Iron, Manganese
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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10020861
MRDS ID DC14169
Record type Site
Current site name Cactus Mine
Related records 10178396

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.29553, 38.4894 (WGS84)
Elevation 1966
Relative position IN COPPER GULCH

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)

Sevier Lake(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 027S 013W 02,03 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gold Secondary
Silver Secondary
Lead Tertiary
Iron Tertiary
Manganese Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Bornite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Malachite Ore
Molybdenite Ore
Stibnite Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore
Anhydrite Gangue
Barite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Rutile Gangue
Sericite Gangue
Tourmaline Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) The Intrusive Has Been Brecciated, Altered, And Mineralized In A Pipelike Fashion.

Host and associated rocks

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

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Slip Planes Are Abundant Within The Brecciated Zone.

Ore body information

  • Strike N 55 W
    Dip 90
    Length 213.36M
    Width 60.96M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1870
Production years 1916-1956

Mining district

District name Preuss District

Comments on the production information

  • TOTAL VALUE OF ORE IS $3,534,876 .

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 3048M

Comments on the workings information

  • A 600 FT DEEP SHAFT WITH SIX LEVELS, A HAULAGE TUNNEL AT THE LOWEST LEVEL, AND A 316 FT INCLINE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BUTLER, B. S., 1913 , GEOLOGY & ORE DEPOSIT OF THE SAN FRANCISCO REGION: USGS PROF PAPER 80 , P. 172 - 178

  • Deposit

    EMMONS, S. F., 1904 , THE CACTUS COPPER MINE: USGS BULL 260 , P. 242 - 248

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN, W., 1910 , ANHYDRITE AS A GANGUE MINERAL: ECON. GEOLOGY VOL 5 , NO. 6 , P. 523

  • Deposit

    PERRY,L.I. & MCCARTHY,B.M., 1977, LEAD AND ZINC IN UTAH: UTAH GEOL. & MIN. SURV., ECON. GEOL. SECT., OPEN-FILE REPT. NO. 22, P. 60.

  • Production

    BUTLER, 1913

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE OCCURS WITHIN A ZONE OF FRACTURE AND BRECCIATION.
Deposit EAST OF THE MINE IS A PROSPECT CALLED THE COMET MINE (LOCATION UNKNOWN) WHICH HAS THE SAME TYPE OF MINERALIZATION. THE WORKINGS CONSIST OF A SHAFT AND AN ADIT. ( BUTLER, 1913 ) ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1974 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAR-1979 Wong, George (Tooker, Ed) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references