| Deposit ID | 10020861 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | DC14169 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Cactus Mine |
| Related records | 10178396 |
| Geographic coordinates: | -113.29553, 38.4894 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Elevation | 1966 |
| Relative position | IN COPPER GULCH |
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)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Utah | Beaver |
| Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salt Lake | 027S | 013W | 02,03 | Utah |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Copper | Primary |
| Gold | Secondary |
| Silver | Secondary |
| Lead | Tertiary |
| Iron | Tertiary |
| Manganese Critical | Tertiary |
| 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 |
| Host or associated | Host | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite | ||
| |||
| (1) | Notch Peak, Orr, Lamb, Weeks, and Wah Wah Summit Formations |
|---|
| Type of structure | Local |
|---|---|
| Structure description | Slip Planes Are Abundant Within The Brecciated Zone. |
| Strike | N 55 W |
|---|---|
| Dip | 90 |
| Length | 213.36M |
| Width | 60.96M |
| Development status | Past Producer |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Significant | No |
| Discovery year | 1870 |
| Production years | 1916-1956 |
| District name | Preuss District |
|---|
| Type of workings | Underground |
|---|---|
| Length | 3048M |
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | DC14169 |
BUTLER, B. S., 1913 , GEOLOGY & ORE DEPOSIT OF THE SAN FRANCISCO REGION: USGS PROF PAPER 80 , P. 172 - 178
EMMONS, S. F., 1904 , THE CACTUS COPPER MINE: USGS BULL 260 , P. 242 - 248
LINDGREN, W., 1910 , ANHYDRITE AS A GANGUE MINERAL: ECON. GEOLOGY VOL 5 , NO. 6 , P. 523
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.
BUTLER, 1913
| 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 |
| 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 |
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