Monte Cristo Mine

Past Producer in Beaver county in Utah, United States with commodity Fluorine-Fluorite
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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10087222
MRDS ID D005769
Record type Site
Current site name Monte Cristo Mine
Related records 10153886

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.15997, 38.34135 (WGS84)
Elevation 1867
Relative position 3500 FT WNW OF PICACHO PEAK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaver(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Picacho Peak(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

BLM Administrative Area(land status)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Beaver

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 028S 012W 26 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS NE 1/4 SE 1/4 SE 1/4 SECTION 26

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Silurian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Silurian
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Intrusives Undifferientiated
    Rock description Intrusives Undifferientiated
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Sevy Dolomite
    Rock description Sevy Dolomite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Chemical Sediment > Chert

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Colorado Plateau/Basin & Range Transition Zone, Cordilleran Hingeline.

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike N-S
    Dip 85E

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Star District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 30M
    Overall depth 20M
    Overall length 27.43M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ABOU-ZIED, S, AND WHELAN, J, A, 1973, GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY OF THE MILFORD FLAT QUADRANGLE, STAR DISTRICT, BEAVER CO, UT, UGMS SPEC S 46

  • Deposit

    GEOLOGY OF THE MILFORD AREA, 1973, UTAH GEOL ASSOC PUBL 3.

  • Deposit

    PERRY, L, I, 1976, LEAD AND ZINC IN UTAH: UTAH GEOL & MIN SURVEY OPEN FILE REPORT #22.

  • Deposit

    BAETCKE, G.B., 1969, STRATIGRAPHY OF THE STAR RANGE AND RECONNAISSANCE STUDY OF THREE SELECTED MINES: UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PH. D. THESIS.

  • Deposit

    1913 RECON BUTLER, B S, USGS PP #80

  • Deposit

    1920 RECON BUTLER, B S, USGS PP #111

  • Deposit

    1962 GEOLMAP BAER, J L, BYU STUDIES V 9

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    1973 COMPILE UGA PUBL #3

  • Deposit

    1973 GEOLMAP UGMS SS #46

  • Production

    EVERTS, M L, 1979, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UT GEOL AND MIN SURV

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-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.