South Star Prospect

Past Producer in Beaver county in Utah, United States with commodities Iron, Lead
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. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10087237
MRDS ID D005812
Record type Site
Current site name South Star Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.11663, 38.38218 (WGS84)
Elevation 1853
Relative position 4 1/2 WEST SW OF MILFORD

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaver(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Milford(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 011W 17 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS: NE 1/4 NW 1/4 NW 1/4 SECTION 17

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary
Lead Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Calcite Gangue
Garnet Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Bleached, Tactite

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock
    Rock unit name Intrusives Undiff
    Rock description Intrusives Undiff
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Tailsman Quartzite
    Rock description Tailsman Quartzite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.11663, 38.38218

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range
Type of structure Local
Structure description Local Normal Faults

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 30 W
    Dip 60 NE
    Thickness 2M
    Length 100M
    Width 1M
    Depth to bottom 10M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Favorable Limestone-Quartzite Beds, That Are Cut By Fissures

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type 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
    Area 0.5HA
    Length 200M
    Overall depth 10M
    Overall length 91.44M
    Overall width 50M

Comments on the workings information

  • ADIT RUNS WEST FOR 200 FT ALSO SEVERAL INTERCONNECTING TUNNELS IN LOOSE SHALLY QUARTZITE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    EVERTS, M L, 1979; UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY; ON-SITE INVESTIGATION

  • Production

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

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-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.