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Desert Flower No. 1 Mine

Past Producer in Box Elder county in Utah, United States with commodities Tungsten, Copper
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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. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10041761
MRDS ID M057524
Record type Site
Current site name Desert Flower No. 1 Mine
Alternate or previous names Pact Rat Canyon Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.36473, 41.20603 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Box Elder(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Desert Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Newfoundland Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Brigham City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Northern Great Salt Lake Desert(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt 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 Box Elder

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 006N 013W 19,20,29,30,31,32 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • 18 LODE CLAIMS, 8 PLACER CLAIMS WERE LEASED AND 68 CLAIMS WERE LOCATED

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Scheelite Ore
Andradite Gangue
Biotite Gangue
Chlorite Gangue
Grossularite Gangue
Muscovite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Garden City;Swan Peak
    Rock description Garden City;Swan Peak

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.36473, 41.20603
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENSES, PODS, IRREGULAR
    Dip 18 SW

Controls for ore emplacement

  • At The Contact Between Limestone And Quartz Monzonite.

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE GARDEN CITY AND SWAN PEAK FORMATION ARE SUCCESSION OF DARK-GRAY, SILTY, FINE-MEDIUM GRAIN CRYSTALLINE LIMESTONE. AN APLITE DIKE 4 INCHES WIDE EXTEND FROM THE INTRUSIVE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Newfoundland District

Land status

Ownership category State

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Sun Mining Co., Salt Lake City, Ut. Sun Uranium Co.
    First year 1955

Comments on the workings information

  • 50 AND 150 FT LONG. ADITS, ONE OPEN PIT 10 X 10 X 15 FT.

Comments on development

  • INTERMITTENT DEVELOPMENT WORK IN 1970.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    EVERETT, F. D., 1961 , TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS IN UTAH: USBM INF CIRC 8014 , P. 21

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1978 Wong, George U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-SEP-1982 Tooker, Ed U.S. Geological Survey

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