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Iron Mine

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021164
MRDS ID DC15106
Record type Site
Current site name Iron Mine
Alternate or previous names Ph & L Mine, P & H Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.89163, 38.36719 (WGS84)
Elevation 1865
Relative position ON MCGARRY KNOLL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaver(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cave Canyon(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 009W 20 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore

Analytical data

Result 1970 CHEM ANALYSIS: 51.3 % FE, 8.6 % SILICA, 0.76 % S, 0.025 % P, 0.43 % MN

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.89163, 38.36719
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Economic information

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 reserve resource information

  • VERY SMALL RESERVES (UNDER 100 TONS)

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A 50 FT SHAFT, TWO 10 FT DEEP PROSPECT HOLES, AND AN OPEN PIT 40 FT LONG AND 20 FT DEEP.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BULLOCK, K. C., 1970 , IRON DEPOSITS OF UTAH: UTAH G & MS BULL 88 , P. 10

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 05-14-1971

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MINERALIZATION OCCURS ALONG A TACTITE ZONE 300 FT LONG, 20 FT WIDE.

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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