Prospects Northwest of South Camp

Past Producer in Beaver county in Utah, United States with commodities Copper, Lead, Zinc, Silver, 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. 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. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10087225
MRDS ID D005776
Record type Site
Current site name Prospects Northwest of South Camp

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.15441, 38.33107 (WGS84)
Elevation 2042
Relative position 3.8 MILES DUE WEST OF TOMSIKWELL & 1.1 MILES SSE OF SHAUNTIE WELL

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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Beaver

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 028S 012W 36 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS SE 1/4 SW 1/4 NW 1/4 SECTION 36.

Commodities

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

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Malachite Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Marble

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Devonian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Mowitza Shale;Guilmette Formation
    Rock description Mowitza Shale;Guilmette Formation
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Chemical Sediment > Chert

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.15441, 38.33107

Economic information

Geologic structures

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

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR VEIN
    Thickness 4.57M
    Length 365.76M
    Width 60.96M
    Depth to bottom 15.24M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Joints And Fissures

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Star District

Land status

Ownership category Private

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, IN UGA PUBL #3.

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    1913 RECON BUTLER, B S, USGS PP #80

  • Deposit

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

  • 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-AUG-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.