Wild Bill Mine

Past Producer in Beaver county in Utah, United States with commodities Lead, Copper, Fluorine-Fluorite, Silver, Gold, Zinc
Sections on this page
  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. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10087093
MRDS ID D004690
Record type Site
Current site name Wild Bill Mine
Related records 10202956, 10275550

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.1508, 38.37857 (WGS84)
Elevation 1917
Relative position 7 1/2 MILES SW OF MILFORD ON WEST SIDE OF STAR RANGE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaver(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Milford NW(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wah Wah Mountains South(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 012W 13 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS 1/4, SE 1/4, NW 1/4, SEC 13.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Copper Primary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary
Silver Secondary
Gold Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Anglesite Ore
Chrysocolla Ore
Corkite Ore
Galena Ore
Malachite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Diopside Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Magnetite Gangue
Tremolite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Altered Completely To Secondary Minerals

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Chemical Sediment > Chert

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.1508, 38.37857

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range Colorado Plateau Transition
Type of structure Local
Structure description Star Range

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR/STEEPLY DIPPING AND CUT ACROSS BEDDING
    Strike N-S
    Dip 35 DEG E

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fissure Replacements Close To Intrusive Contact

Comments on the geologic information

  • IT IS INFERED THAT THE PRIMARY MINERALS WERE SULFIDES OF LEAD, COPPER, IRON, & PROBABLY ZINC

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1885
Year of first production 1895

Mining district

District name Star

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Pillock, Leonard, Wilken And Others

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Area 0.558HA
    Length 720.85M
    Overall depth 156.06M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ABOU-ZIED, S., AND WHELAN, J.A., 1973, GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY OF THE MILFORD FLAT QUADRANGLE, STAR DIST, BEAVER CO. UT: UT GEOL & MIN SURVEY SPEC. STUDY 46

  • Deposit

    BAER, I.L., 1962, GEOLOGY OF THE STAR RANGE, BEAVER COUNTY, UTAH: B.Y.U. GEOLOGY STUDIES V. 9, PT. 2, P.29-52.

  • Deposit

    BAER, J.L., 1973, SUMMARY OF THE STRATAGRAPHY AND STRUCTURE OF THE STAR RANGE, BEAVER COUNTY, UTAH: UTAH GEOL. ASSOC. PUBL. NO. 3 P. 6

  • Deposit

    PERRY, L.I., 1976, LEAD AND ZINC IN UTAH: UTAH GEOL. & MIN SURVEY OPEN FILE REPORT. NO.22

  • Deposit

    1913 GEOLMAP BUTLER, B.S., USGS PP #80

  • Deposit

    1920 RECON BUTLER, B.S, USGS PP#111

  • Deposit

    BAETCKE, G.B., 1969, STRATIGRAPHY OF THE STAR RANGE AND RECONNAISSANCE STUDY OF THREE SELECTED MINES: UNIV. OF UT. P. HD. THESIS.

  • Deposit

    1962 GEOLMAP BAER, J.L., B.Y.U. GEOL. STUDIES V.9

  • Deposit

    1963 COMPILE HEYL, A.V., USGS BULL 1135-B

  • Deposit

    1973 COMPILE UGA PUBL. #3

  • Deposit

    1973 GEOLMAP UGMS SPECIAL STUDIES #46

  • Production

    MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE U.S., 1925.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit TUNNEL PORTAL CAVED-4 LEVELS OF WORKINGS, SHAFT, INCLINES, RAISES, WINZES, STOPES AND DRIFTS, OPEN CUTS AND PITS
Deposit BOTH THE QUARTZ MONZONITE INTRUSIVE AND THE ORE DEPOSITS ARE THOUGHT TO BE RELATED TO THE SAME MAGMATIC SOURCE
Deposit Discovery Year: 1880'S

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1979 Everts, Michael L. Bureau of Land Management
Updater 01-JUL-1985 Shubat, Michael A. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references