| Deposit ID | 10042193 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | M058577 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Beck Mine |
| Alternate or previous names | Beck No. 2 Mine, Old Beck Tunnel |
| Geographic coordinates: | -112.09301, 39.94412 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Elevation | 2021 |
| Relative position | 5500 FT S 50 W OF BIG HILL |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Utah(county)
Utah(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Eureka(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)
Lynndyl(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)
Delta(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)
Hydrologic units (watersheds)
Lower Sevier(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 | Utah |
| Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salt Lake | 010S | 002W | 20 | NE OF SW | Utah |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Lead | Primary |
| Silver | Primary |
| Copper | Tertiary |
| Zinc Critical | Tertiary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Anglesite | Ore |
| Copper | Ore |
| Barite | Gangue |
| Quartz | Gangue |
| Host or associated | Host | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone | ||||
| Rock unit name | Deseret Limestone | ||||
| Rock description | Deseret Limestone | ||||
| |||||
| (1) | -112.09301, 39.94412 |
|---|
| Type of structure | Regional |
|---|---|
| Structure description | North - Trending Ore Channel |
| General form | BLANKET |
|---|---|
| Length | 304.8M |
| Depth to top | 91.44M |
| Development status | Past Producer |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Deposit size | Medium |
| Significant | No |
| Discovery year | 1904 |
| Discoverer | Jesse Knight And Associates |
| Year of first production | 1905 |
| Year of last production | 1950 |
| District name | Tintic District |
|---|
| Ownership category | Private |
|---|
| Type | Operator |
|---|---|
| Owner | Kennecott Copper Corp. |
| Type | Owner |
|---|---|
| Owner | Amax Copper Mines, Subsidiary Of Amax, Inc. |
| Home office | Greenwich, Conn. |
| Year | 1913 | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Period | 1905-1913 | ||||||||||||||
| Material | AU | ||||||||||||||
| Accuracy | Accurate | ||||||||||||||
| Description | Cp_Grade: ^27 Oz/Ton | ||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||
| Type of workings | Underground |
|---|---|
| Length | 609.6M |
| Overall depth | 609.6M |
| Overall length | 4827.9M |
| Overall width | 15.24M |
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | M058577 |
MORRIS, H.T., AND LOVERING, T.S., 1979, GENERAL GEOLOGY AND MINES OF THE EAST TINTIC MINING DISTRICT, UTAH AND JUAB COUNTIES, UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 1024, 194 PP.
COOK, D.R., ED., 1957, GEOLOGY OF THE EAST TINTIC MOUNTAINS AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE TINTIC MINING DISTRICTS: UTAH GEOL. SOC. GUIDEBOOK, NO. 12, 183 P.
MORRIS, H.T., 1964, GEOLOGY OF THE EUREKA QUADRANGLE, UTAH AND JUAB COUNTIES, UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1142-K, P. K1-K29.
LINDGREN, WALDEMAR, AND LOUGHLIN, G.F., 1919, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSIITS OF THE TINTIC MINING DISTRICT, UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 107, 276 PP.
MORRIS, H.T., 1968, ORE DEPOSITS OF THE MAIN TINTIC DISTRICT, UTAH, IN J.D. RIDGE, ED., GRATON SALES VOL II, AIME.
SALT LAKE MINING REVIEW, JUNE 30, 1913.
LINDGREN WAND LOUGHLIN, G.F., 1919
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | DOWN-DIP CONTINUATION OF HUMBUG ORE |
| Deposit | LARGE NATURAL CAVE ON 900 LEVEL ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 01-NOV-1983 | James, Laurence P. | Utah Geological and Mineral Survey |
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MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:
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