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Cougar Spar Mine

Producer in Beaver county in Utah, United States with commodities Fluorine-Fluorite, Quartz, Calcium
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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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Production statistics
  19. Reserves and resources
  20. Workings at the site
  21. Links to other databases
  22. Bibliographic references
  23. General comments
  24. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10069424
MRDS ID W006953
Record type Site
Current site name Cougar Spar Mine
Alternate or previous names Spar, Spar #1, Spar #2

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.83415, 38.21663 (WGS84)
Elevation 2342
Relative position 1350 METERS NNW OF WATER TANK LOCATED IN SEC. 14 T30S, R18W

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaver(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pinto Spring(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wah Wah Mountains South(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Pine Valley(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Beaver

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 030S 018W 10 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS SW 1/4 NE 1/4 SE 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary
Quartz Tertiary
Calcium Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Fault Gouge, Breccia

Analytical data

Result AT COUGAR SPAR MINE FLOTATION TESTS OF ORE GROUND TO MINUS 200 MESH RESULTED IN 98% CAF2 WITH A 76.5% RECOVERY. AT THE JB MINE, FLOTATION TESTS RESULTED IN A CONCENTRATE OF 98% CAF2, 0.2% SIO2, 0.6% CACO3 WITH 78% RECOVERY OF THE CALCIUM FLUORIDE.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Needles Range Formation
    Rock description Needles Range Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.83415, 38.21663
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin & Range
Type of structure Local
Structure description Indian Peak Range

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR/PINCH & SWELL
    Strike N15 DEG W
    Dip 80-85 DEG E
    Length 2133.6M
    Width 12.19M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 121.92M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Nw Trending Fault Zone

Comments on the geologic information

  • MINERALIZATION OCCURRS WITHIN A NW TRENDING FAULT ZONE, THAT CONTAINS QTZ DIORITE PORPHYRY & TUFF FRAGMENTS. FLUORITE IS MASSIVE, XLLINE, PALE GREEN TO MILKLY WH.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1937
Discoverer W.C. & S.M. Dalton, Parowan, Ut
Year of first production 1941

Mining district

District name Washington District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Spar, Chad
  • Type Owner
    Owner Amax Copper Mines, Subsidiary Of Amax, Inc.

Production statistics

  • Year 1941
    Material ORE
    Accuracy Estimate
    Description Ap_Grade: ^40% Caf2
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major CaF2 Ore Fluorine-Fluorite Fluorine 40wt-pct
  • Year 1944
    Material F
    Accuracy Estimate
    Description Ap_Grade: ^Fluorite Ave. 42%
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major CaF2 Fluorine-Fluorite Fluorine 42wt-pct
  • Year 1945
    Period 1944-1945
    Material ORE
    Accuracy Estimate
    Description Cp_Grade: ^40 % Caf2 Cougar Spar Mine
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major CaF2 Ore Fluorine-Fluorite Fluorine 40wt-pct

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTIVE PERIOD FOR THE COUGAR SPAR MINE WAS 1937 - 1945. THE BLUE BELL AND JB WERE PROBABLY OPERATED FOR AN EVEN SHORTER PERIOD.

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Name COUGAR SPAR, JB, & BLUE BELL
    Estimate year 1950
    Total resources 45000000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Fluorine-Fluorite CaF2 40 wt-pct Fluorine Major 1950

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 917.45M
    Overall depth 91.44M

Comments on the workings information

  • IN 1945 A 150 TON GRAVITY MILL WAS INSTALLED ON THE SITE. PROPERTY IS PRESENTLY BEING EXPLOITED BY OPEN PIT. PROPERTY HAS AN INCLINE SHAFT & 2 ADITS

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: COUGAR SPAR HAD 136 MET. TON PER DAY JIG MILL AT THE MINE. JB ORE WAS MILLED AT THE WESTERN FLUORITE CO.'S MILL NEAR MILFORD

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BULLOCK, K.C., 1976, FLUORITE OCCURRENCES IN UTAH: UGMS BULL. 110, P. 18-20.

  • Deposit

    EVERETT, F.D., & WILSON, S.R., 1950 INVESTIGATION OF J.B. FLUORITE DEPOSIT, BEAVER COUNTY, UTAH: USBM RI 4726, 11. P

  • Deposit

    EVERETT, F. D. AND WILSON, S. R., 1951, INVESTIGATION OF THE COUGAR SPAR FLUORSPAR DEPOSIT, BEAVER COUNTY, UTAH: U. S. BU MINES REP OF INVES 4820

  • Deposit

    COCHRAN, K.L., 1952, FLUORSPAR RESOURCES OF CALIFORNIA, NEVADA, UTAH, IDAHO, AND COLORADO ADJACENT AND TRIBUTARY TO FACILITIES OF THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY: UNION AND PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, LOS ANGLES, CALIFORNIA, 78 P.

  • Deposit

    1945 GEOLMAP THURSTON W. R.

  • Deposit

    1950 COMPILE USBM (SEE REF. #2)

  • Deposit

    1954 GEOMAP THURSTON, W.R. USGS BULL 1005

  • Production

    EVERTS, M.L., 1979, GEOLOGIST.

  • Reserve-Resource

    THURSTON, W. R. ET AL, 1954, F. DEP. UTAH P. 49

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MINERAL ZONE AVE. 10 FT WIDE
Deposit DEPOSIT LIES ALONG A FAULTED AND INTRUSIVE CONTACT OF TERTIARY QUARTZ DIORITE PORPHYRY AND VOLCANIC ROCKS OF THE TERT. NEEDLES RANGE FM. MINERALIZATION IS TRACABLE FOR 1 MILE NORTH & SOUTH OF THE MINE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1975 Schruben, Paul G. Bureau of Land Management
Updater 01-MAY-1979 Everts, Mike L. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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