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Major Fault Group

Occurrence in Beaver county in Utah, United States with commodity 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. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021161
MRDS ID DC15094
Record type Site
Current site name Major Fault Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.77273, 38.36941 (WGS84)
Elevation 2024

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 17,18 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • PROPERTY INCLUDES THE MAJOR FAULT NO. 1 & 2 CLAIMS AND THREE OTHER CLAIMS.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.77273, 38.36941
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description The Limestone Beds Strike N 28 E, Dip 55 - 65 Se

Ore body information

  • General form DISSEMINATED

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE TACTITE IS A GREENISH EPIDOTIZED LIMESTONE. THE BEDS NEXT TO THE TACTITE IS A GRAY TO NEARLY BLACK COMPACT LIMESTONE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Granite District

Comments on the workings information

  • DEVELOPMENT CONSIST OF A 50 FT SHAFT, A 50 FT INCLINE SHAFT, A SHALLOW OPEN PIT AND A HUNDRED FEET OF TRACK.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CRAWFORD, A.L. AND BURANEK, A.M., 1957 , TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF MINERAL RANGE: UTAH G & MS REPRINT NO. 56 , P. 42

  • 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

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 06-13-1971

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE TACTITE ZONES TOTAL ABOUT 24 FT IN THICKNESS.
Deposit REPORTED TO BE ORE GRADE IN 1944 ; 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

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

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