South Emerson Prospects

Past Producer in Beaver county in Utah, United States with commodities Lead, Zinc, Silver
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. Alteration
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10087239
MRDS ID D005817
Record type Site
Current site name South Emerson Prospects

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.11691, 38.3594 (WGS84)
Elevation 1743
Relative position 2.5 MILES W SW OF MOLLIES NIPPLE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaver(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Milford Flat(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 20 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUB: SW 1/4 NE 1/4 SW 1/4 SECTION 20

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Secondary
Silver Secondary

Alteration

  • (Local) Limonitization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Milford Flat Stock
    Rock description Milford Flat Stock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Chemical Sediment > Salt
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Moenkopi Formation
    Rock description Moenkopi Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.11691, 38.3594

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin & Range; Sevier Orogenic Belt.
Type of structure Local
Structure description Eastern Limb Of N Trending Anticline

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 12 W
    Dip 40 E
    Thickness 1.52M
    Depth to bottom 18.29M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • 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

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 18.29M

Comments on the workings information

  • THIS SHAFT IS PART OF A GROUP OF 4 SHAFTS ALL IN CLOSE PROXMITY & HAVING SIMILIAR GEOLOGY. ALL IN SW 1/4 SEC 20

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    M S ABOU-SIED, 1968, GEOLOGY OF THE MILFORD FLAT QUAD, U OF U MS THESIS (MAP)

  • Production

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

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.