Ward Group

Occurrence in Beaver county in Utah, United States with commodity Tungsten
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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10094838
MRDS ID DC15098
Record type Site
Current site name Ward Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.78051, 38.36691 (WGS84)
Elevation 2057

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaver(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Adamsville(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Beaver(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 008W 17,20 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • IN PORCUPINE CANYON MIDWAY ALONG NW FLANK OF SCHEELITE CLAIM GROUP

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.78051, 38.36691

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description The Tactite Zone Strikes N 35 E, Dip 75 Se.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Granite District

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CRAWFORD, A.L. AND BURANEK, A.M., 1957 , TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF THE MINERAL RANGE: UTAH G & MS REPRINT NO. 56 , P. 41

  • Deposit

    UTAH ENG. EXP. STA. BULL. 101, 1959, P. 77.

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 05-13-1971

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE OCCURS IN TACTITE ZONES

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1974 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAR-1979 Wong, George (Tooker, Ed) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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