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King of the Hills Mine

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021160
MRDS ID DC15093
Record type Site
Current site name King of the Hills Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.77301, 38.37164 (WGS84)
Relative position HEAD OF OAK LEAF CANYON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaver(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Adamsville(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Beaver(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
Salt Lake 028S 008W 17 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • PROPERTY INCLUDES 22 CLAIMS.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Tungsten Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.77301, 38.37164
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description The Country Rocks Strike N 35 E, Dip Steeply Se.

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: OXIDIZED ORE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Granite District

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS BULL. 945-D, 1945, P. 111.

  • Deposit

    CRAWFORD, A.L. AND BURANEK, A.M., 1957 , TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF MINERAL RANGE: UTAH G & MS REPRINT NO. 56 , P. 43

  • Deposit

    UTAH ENG. EXP. STA. BULL. 101, 1959, P. 77.

  • Deposit

    EVERETT, F.D., 1961 , TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS IN UTAH: USBM INF. CIRC. 8014 , P. 38

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit IN A TACTITE ZONE
Deposit 3000 FT UNDERGROUND WORKINGS ; 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.

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