| Deposit ID | 10101495 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | D003938 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Big Pass Blue Star, Strategic Metals Mine |
| Geographic coordinates: | -112.8294, 38.30553 (WGS84) |
|---|
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)
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)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Utah | Beaver |
| Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salt Lake | 009W | 029S | 12 | Utah |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Tungsten Critical | Primary |
| Lead | Primary |
| Gold | Primary |
| Silver | Primary |
| Fluorine-Fluorite Critical | Primary |
| Molybdenum | Tertiary |
| Iron | Tertiary |
| Copper | Tertiary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Fluorite | Ore |
| Galena | Ore |
| Jarosite | Ore |
| Limonite | Ore |
| Malachite | Ore |
| Molybdenite | Ore |
| Scheelite | Ore |
| Host or associated | Host |
|---|---|
| Rock type | Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone |
| (1) | -112.8294, 38.30553 |
|---|
| Development status | Past Producer |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Both |
| Deposit size | Small |
| Significant | No |
| District name | Granite District |
|---|
| Ownership category | BLM Administrative Area |
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| Year | 1953 | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Period | 1943 - 1953 | ||||||||||||||
| Material | W | ||||||||||||||
| Description | Cp_Grade: ^.45 % - 79 % Wo3 | ||||||||||||||
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| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | D003938 |
BULLOCK, K. C., 1976 , UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURVEY BULL. 110 .
NACKOWSKI, M. P., AND LEVY, ENRIGUE, 1959 , UTAH ENG. AND EXPERIMENT STATION BULL. 101 .
HOBBS, S. W., 1945 , USGS BULL. 945-D .
EVERETT, F. D., 1961 , US BUREAU OF MINES INF. CIRC. 8014 .
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | THE PROPERTY IS REPORTED TO HAVE PRODUCED SOME LEAD ORES CONTAINING PRECIOUS METALS. HIGH GRADE GOLD ORE WAS MINED IN THE 1930'S BUT NO PRODUCTION STATISTICS EXIST IN THE LITERATURE FOR THESE YEARS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 01-OCT-1978 | Steven, T. A. | U.S. Geological Survey |
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