| Deposit ID | 10011263 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | D005828 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Beaver Carbonate Mine |
| Alternate or previous names | Carbonate-Rattler |
| Related records | 10300095 |
| Geographic coordinates: | -113.24331, 38.4819 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Elevation | 2027 |
| Relative position | 12 MILES NW OF MILFORD AND 1.75 NE OF FRISCO TOWNSITE |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Beaver(county)
Utah(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Milford NW(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)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Utah | Beaver |
| Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salt Lake | 027S | 012W | 07 | Utah |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Lead | Primary |
| Silver | Primary |
| Zinc Critical | Tertiary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Sphalerite | Ore |
| Host or associated | Associated | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) | ||||
| |||||
| Host or associated | Host |
|---|---|
| Rock type | Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) |
| Host or associated | Host |
|---|---|
| Rock type | Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Glassy Rock > Vitrophyre |
| (1) | -113.24331, 38.4819 |
|---|
| Type of structure | Regional |
|---|---|
| Structure description | Basin And Range; Sevier Orogenic Belt |
| Type of structure | Local |
| Structure description | San Francisco Mtns-Local Normal Faults |
| General form | IRREGULAR |
|---|---|
| Strike | N70E |
| Dip | 80N |
| Thickness | 3.05M |
| Length | 30.48M |
| Width | 243.84M |
| Depth to top | 0M |
| Depth to bottom | 213.36M |
| Development status | Past Producer |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Deposit size | Medium |
| Significant | No |
| Discovery year | 1878 |
| Year of first production | 1879 |
| District name | Frisco |
|---|
| Ownership category | Private |
|---|
| Type | Operator |
|---|---|
| Owner | Frisco Mining And Smelting |
| Type | Owner |
|---|---|
| Owner | Wanda H Kuhn |
| Year | 1909 | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Period | 1879-1909 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Material | ORE | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Accuracy | Accurate | |||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Type of workings | Underground |
|---|---|
| Length | 762M |
| Overall depth | 213.36M |
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | D005828 |
PERRY, L I AND MCCARTHY, B M, 1976 LEAD AND ZINC IN UTAH, UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY, OPEN-FILE REPORT NO 22
BUTLER, B S, 1913, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE SAN FRANCISCO AND ADJACENT DISTRICT, BEAVER CO, UTAH, USGS PP #80
1913 RECON BUTLER, USGS PP 80
1976 COMPILE UGMS-OPEN FILE REPORT #22
PERRY, L I, 1979, ON-SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 01-APR-1979 | Everts, Michael L. | Bureau of Land Management |
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