Mt Baldy District

Past Producer in Piute county in Utah, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, Gold, Iron
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Geologic structures
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60001639
MRDS ID W002880
Record type District
Current site name Mt Baldy District
Alternate or previous names Ohio District

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.33408, 38.43327 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Piute(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Brigham(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Beaver(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Sevier(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Fishlake National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Piute

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Gold Primary
Iron Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.33408, 38.43327

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure name FAULTING
Structure description FAULTS PARALLEL TO STEEP RANGE BOUNDARIES

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Significant Yes
Discovery year 1878

Mining district

District name MT BALDY DISTRICT
District name OHIO DISTRICT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BUTLER, B.S., LOUGHLIN, G.F., AND HEIKES, V.C., AND OTHERS, 1920, THE ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH: USGS PROF. PAPER 111, 672P.

  • Deposit

    CALLAGHAN, EUGENE, 1938 PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE ALUNITE DEPOSITS OF THE MARYSVALE REGION, UTAH: USGS BULL. 886-D P. 91-134

  • Deposit

    KOSCHMANN, A. H. AND BERGENDAHL, M. H., PRINCIPAL GOLD PRODUCING DIST. OF THE U.S.: USGS PROF. PAPER 610, 283P.

Beyond USGS

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