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Beaver Metals

Past Producer in Beaver county in Utah, United States with commodities Iron, Sulfur, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Manganese
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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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021128
MRDS ID DC15017
Record type Site
Current site name Beaver Metals

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.1297, 38.53524 (WGS84)
Elevation 1835
Relative position 0.25 MILES SOUTH OF USMM 2

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaver(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

High Rock(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wah Wah Mountains North(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
026S;026S 011W;012W Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary
Sulfur Secondary
Phosphorus-Phosphates Secondary
Manganese Critical Secondary

Analytical data

Result 1970 CHEM. ANALYSIS: 57.2 % FE, 1.4 % SILICA, 0.044 % S, 0.16 % P, 0.06 % MN

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Silurian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.1297, 38.53524
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form PIPELIKE

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE DEPOSIT OCCURS NEAR AN INTRUSIVE CONTACT.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Production years 1916

Mining district

District name Beaver Lake District

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A 300 FT SHAFT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MIN. RES. OF THE US (1916).

  • Deposit

    BAROSH, P. J., 1960 , BEAVER LAKE MOUNTAINS: UTAH GEOL & MIN SURV BULL 68 , P. 80

  • Deposit

    BULLOCK, K. C., 1970 , IRON DEPOSITS OF UTAH: UTAH GEOL & MIN SURV BULL 88 , P. 2

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 09-21-1962

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.

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