Shaft East of the Leonora Mine

Occurrence in Beaver county in Utah, United States with commodity Copper
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. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10088819
MRDS ID M058886
Record type Site
Current site name Shaft East of the Leonora Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.1383, 38.36274 (WGS84)
Elevation 1963
Relative position 3300 FEET S 11 W FROM USMM2

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

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 19 NW OF SW OF NW Utah

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1975)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Malachite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Bleaching, Propylitic Alteration

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Pakoon Dolomite And Callville Limestone, Undivided
    Rock description Pakoon Dolomite And Callville Limestone, Undivided

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.1383, 38.36274

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Pioche Mineral Belt, Sevier Orogenic Belt
Type of structure Local
Structure description Ene Striking Strike-Slip Fault With Limestone On The North And Quartzite On South

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 80 E
    Dip 90
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Ene Striking Shear Zone

Comments on the geologic information

  • MAFIC DIKE CONTAINS CLASTS OF QUARTZ MONZONITE. DIKE IS HIGHLY PROPYLITIZED

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
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
    Overall depth 4.57M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF ONE SHAFT ABOUT 15 FEET DEEP

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., AND MORRIS, H.T., 1979, PRELIMINARY GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE MILFORD QUADRANGLE, BEAVER COUNTY, UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN-FILE REPORT 79-1471, SCALE 1:48,000.

  • Deposit

    STEVEN, T.A., AND MORRIS, H.T., 1984, MINERAL RESOURCE POTENTIAL OF THE RICHFIELD 1 X 2 QUADRANGLE, WEST-CENTRAL UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN-FILE REPORT 84-521

  • Deposit

    SHUBAT, M.A., 1785, ON-SITE INVESTIGATION, UGMS

  • Deposit

    ABOU-ZIED, S., AND WHELAN, J.A., 1973, GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY OF THE MILFORD FLAT QUADRANGLE, STAR DISTRICT, BEAVER COUNTY, UTAH: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY SPEC. STUDIES NO. 46

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSIT CONSISTS OF MINOR QUARTZ VEINING ALONG MARGIN OF A PROPYLITIZED DIKE, BOTH CONTROLLED BY A ENE STRIKING STRIKE-SLIP FAULT. MINOR MALACHITE STAINING IN VEIN MATERIAL.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1985 Shubat, Michael A. Utah Geological and Mineral Survey

Beyond USGS

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