Squaw Gulch Pit

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. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10095650
MRDS ID M058910
Record type Site
Current site name Squaw Gulch Pit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.28581, 38.46302 (WGS84)
Elevation 2280
Relative position 6,000 FEET N 07 W FROM GRAMPIAN HILL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaver(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Frisco(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wah Wah Mountains South(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Sevier Lake(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Beaver

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 027S 013W 14 NW OF NE OF SW Utah

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1975)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chrysocolla Ore
Malachite Ore
Magnetite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Contact Metasomatism, Bleaching

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Cactus Stock
    Rock description Cactus Stock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Orr Formation
    Rock description Orr Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.28581, 38.46302

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Pioche Mineral Belt, Sevier Orogenic Belt
Type of structure Local
Structure description Nw Striking Fault

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Intrusive-Fault Contact

Comments on the geologic information

  • INTRUSIVE-LIMESTONE CONTACT SHOWS CHARACTERISTICS OF BOTH AN INTRUSIVE CONTACT AND A FAULT CONTACT.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name San Francisco District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF TWO SMALL PITS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., AND MORRIS, H.T., 1979, PRELIMINARY GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE FRISCO QUADRANGLE, BEAVER COUNTY, UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN-FILE REPORT 79-724, SCALE 1:48,000

  • Deposit

    SHUBAT, M.A., 1985, ON-SITE INVESTIGATION, UGMS

  • Deposit

    STRINGHAM, B., 1967, HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION NEAR THE HORN SILVER MINE, BEAVER COUNTY, UTAH: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY SPEC STUDIES NO. 16.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSIT CONSISTS OF SKARN DEVELOPED ALONG FAULT/INTRUSIVE CONTACT BETWEEN THE CACTUS STOCK AND LIMESTONE. SKARN IS OF THE COPPER-MAGNETITE VARIETY: SMALL AMOUNT OF COPPER

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.