Fluorite Deposit

Past Producer in Beaver county in Utah, United States with commodity Fluorine-Fluorite
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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Ore body information
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10011240
MRDS ID D005775
Record type Site
Current site name Fluorite Deposit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.15747, 38.3269 (WGS84)
Elevation 2048
Relative position 1.3 MILES SSE OF SHAUNTIE WELL & 3.7 MILES DUE WEST OF ROLLINS WELL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaver(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Picacho Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wah Wah Mountains South(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

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 028S 012W 36 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS SW 1/4 NW 1/4 SW 1/4 SECTION 36

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.15747, 38.3269

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form VEIN
    Strike N30W
    Dip 40S
    Thickness 1.83M
    Length 60.96M
    Width 1.83M
    Depth to bottom 3.05M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1936
Discoverer Thomas E Gillins

Mining district

District name Star District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Gerald Gillins
  • Type Owner
    Owner Thomas E Gillins

Comments on the workings information

  • SHALLOW INCLINE SHAFT, PROSPECT PITS, DOZER CUTS.

Comments on development

  • LOCATED IN 1936 AS VIRGINIA CLAIMS & IN 1957 AS THE FLUORITE 1-8 CLAIMS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ABOU-ZIED, S, AND WHELAN, J, A, 1973, GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY OF THE MILFORD FLAT QUADRANGLE, STAR DISTRICT, BEAVER CO, UT, UGMS SPEC S 46

  • Deposit

    GEOLOGY OF THE MILFORD AREA, 1973, UTAH GEOL ASSOC PUBL 3.

  • Deposit

    PERRY, L, I, 1976, LEAD AND ZINC IN UTAH: UTAH GEOL & MIN SURVEY OPEN FILE REPORT #22.

  • Deposit

    BULLOCK, K C, 1976, FLUORITE OCCURRENCES IN UTAH: UGMS: UGMS BULL 110

  • Deposit

    1913 RECON BUTLER, B S, USGS PP #80

  • Deposit

    1920 RECON BUTLER, B S, USGS PP #111

  • Deposit

    1962 GEOLMAP BAER, J L, BYU STUDIES V 9

  • Deposit

    1963 COMPILE HEYL, A V, USGS BULL 1135-B

  • Deposit

    1973 COMPILE UGA PUBL #3

  • Deposit

    BAETCKE, G B, 1969, STRATIGRAPHY OF THE STAR RANGE AND RECONNAISSANCE STUDY OF THREE SELECTED MINES: UNIV OF UTAH P HD THESIS.

  • Deposit

    1973 GEOLMAP UGMS SS #46

  • Production

    EVERTS, M L, 1979, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UT GEOL AND MIN SURV

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1979 Everts, Michael L. Bureau of Land Management
Updater 01-JUL-1985 Shubat, Michael A. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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