Homestake Mine

Occurrence in Iron county in Utah, United States with commodity Mercury
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040404
MRDS ID M055164
Record type Site
Current site name Homestake Mine

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Centroid
Geographic coordinates: -113.28768, 37.85074 (WGS84)
Relative position Original record had no coordinates, so this was plotted to the middle of the state/county area.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Iron(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Avon SE(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Cedar City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Cedar City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Escalante Desert(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Iron

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Mercury Ore

Nearby scientific data

Centroid (1) -113.28768, 37.85074

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Gold Springs District

Comments on the production information

  • NO PRODUCTION DATA, PROBABLY NONE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BUTLER AND OTHERS, 1920, PROF. PAPER 106, 566. U.S. 88TH CONGR. 2ND SESS. 1964, COMM. INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS, COMM. PRINT 26-976

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit HG REPORTED BUT PROB OF LITTLE ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE ; INFO.SRC : BAILEY E H

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-73 Bergquist, Joel R. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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