| Deposit ID | 10203156 |
|---|---|
| MAS/MILS ID | 0490010059 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Cactus |
| Point of reference | Trench |
|---|---|
| Geographic coordinates: | -113.29521, 38.48936 (WGS84) |
| Elevation | 1939 |
| Location accuracy | 10(meters) |
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)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Utah | Beaver |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Copper | Tertiary |
| Gold | Tertiary |
| Lead | Tertiary |
| Silver | Tertiary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Anhydrite | Unknown |
| Apatite | Unknown |
| Barite | Unknown |
| Chalcopyrite | Unknown |
| Copper | Unknown |
| Covellite | Unknown |
| Galena | Unknown |
| Goethite | Unknown |
| Hematite | Unknown |
| Limonite | Unknown |
| Magnetite | Unknown |
| Malachite | Unknown |
| Pyrite | Unknown |
| Pyrolusite | Unknown |
| Quartz | Unknown |
| Rutile | Unknown |
| Sericite | Unknown |
| Siderite | Unknown |
| Tetrahedrite | Unknown |
| Tourmaline | Unknown |
| Trench (1) | Notch Peak, Orr, Lamb, Weeks, and Wah Wah Summit Formations |
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| Thickness | 41.2M | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Length | 35M | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Width | 183M | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Area | 64.8HA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Depth to top | 2M | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Operation type | Surface-Underground |
|---|---|
| Development status | Producer |
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Significant | No |
| Discovery year | 1870 |
| Year of first production | 1892 |
| District name | New House |
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| Type of mineral rights | Patented |
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| Ownership category | Private |
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| Type | Owner-Operator |
|---|---|
| Owner | Tintic Lead Co. |
| Interest | 60 |
| Home office | Utah |
| Year | 1976 |
| Type | Owner-Operator |
|---|---|
| Owner | Cobre Mining Co. |
| Interest | 40 |
| Home office | Utah |
| Year | 1976 |
| Type of workings | Underground | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. Bureau of Mines | Minerals Availability System | MAS | 0490010059 |
REF- BUTLER,B.S., 1913, GEOL. & ORE DEPOSITS OF SAN FRANCISC
ADJ. DISTRICTS, UTAH, USGS PROF. PAPER NO. 80 (GEOL. ETC.)
EMONS, S E, 1905, CACTUS COPPER MINE, USGS BULL 260. P 242
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 27-FEB-84 | Salisbury | U.S. Bureau of Mines |
Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.