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Horn Silver Mine

Past Producer in Beaver county in Utah, United States with commodities Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10008455
MRDS ID D000630
Record type Site
Current site name Horn Silver Mine
Related records 10251163

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.26748, 38.44996 (WGS84)
Elevation 1996
Relative position 18 MILES WEST NW OF MILFORD

Site location context

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)

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

BLM Administrative Area(land status)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Beaver

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 027S 013W 23 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SE 1/4 SE 1/4 NE 1/4 SEC 23

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Tertiary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Argentite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Wurtzite Ore
Barite Gangue
Chlorite Gangue
Epidote Gangue
Idocrase Gangue
Magnetite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Hematitization, Silif, Alun, Argil, Pyrit

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
    Rock unit name Horn Silver Andesite
    Rock description Horn Silver Andesite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Grampian Limestone (Host);Ely Formation
    Rock description Grampian Limestone (Host);Ely Formation

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range
Type of structure Local
Structure description North Trending Horn Silver Fault Brings Camb Sediments Against Oligo. Volcanics/Down East

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N-S
    Dip 90
    Thickness 15.24M
    Length 914.4M
    Width 182.88M
    Depth to bottom 487.68M

Comments on the geologic information

  • LIMESTONE LT-DK GY, BANDED, THICK BEDDED/W DOLO, LT-TAN. QUARTZ MONZ, LT GY & BLK, MED GRN, LOCALLY PORPHYRITIC, ALSO VOLCANICS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Large
Significant No
Discovery year 1875
Year of first production 1875

Mining district

District name Frisco

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Freeport Minerals Co.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Horn Silver Mines, Inc. And Tintic Mineral Resources

Comments on the production information

  • NO PRODUCTION FIGURES AVAILABLE

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Area 70.093HA
    Length 1219.2M
    Overall depth 487.68M
    Overall length 1219.2M
    Overall width 609.6M

Comments on development

  • IN NOVEMBER OF 1982, FREEPORT MINERALS CO. ANNOUNCED PLANS TO EXPLORE AND REHABILITATE THE KING DAVID SHAFT. IN 19-85 NO ACTIVITY IN THE DISTRICT WAS OBSERVED. ; ECON.COM: DISCOVERED SEPT 24, 1875

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    STRINGHAM, B, 1963 HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION IN THE S E PART OF THE FRISCO QUADRANGLE, BEAVER CO UTAH, UGMS SPEC STUD NO 4

  • Deposit

    STRINGHAM, B 1964, ALTERATION AREA SOUTH OF THE HORN SILVER MINE BEAVER CO, UTAH UGMS SPEC STUD NO 9

  • Deposit

    STRINGHAM, B, 1963, HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION NEAR THE HORN SILVER MINE, BEAVER CO UTAH, UGMS SPEC STUD NO 16

  • Deposit

    PERRY, L I AND MCCARTHY, B M, 1976 LEAD AND ZINC IN UTAH, UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY, OPEN-FILE REPORT NO 22

  • Deposit

    EAST, E.H., 1956, GEOLOGY OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MOUNTAINS, BEAVER COUNTY, UTAH: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, MS THESIS.

  • Deposit

    1913 RECON BUTLER, B S USGS PP #80

  • Deposit

    1920 RECON BUTLER, B S USGS PP #111

  • Deposit

    1963 RECON UGMS SS #4

  • Deposit

    1964 RECON UGMS SS #9

  • Deposit

    1967 RECON UGMS SS #16

  • Production

    EVERTS, M L, 1979, ONSITE INVESTIGATION: UT GEOL AND MIN SUR

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE HORN SILVER ANDESITE MENTIONED ABOVE IS A LOCAL UNIT LYING BETWEEN THE NEEDLES AND ISOM FM'S. THE SEQUENCE OF VOLCANICS FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: QUARTZ LAT PORP, QUICHAPA FM (IGNIMBRITE), BASALT, ISOM (IGNIMBRITE), HORN SILVER ANDESITE, NEEDLES RANGE FM (NOT EXPOSED), PALEOZOIC LIMESTN (GRAMPIAN).

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1974 Everts, Michael L. Bureau of Land Management
Updater 01-JUL-1985 Shubat, Michael A. U.S. Geological Survey PARSED HOST ROCK AND ASSOCIATED ROCK INFORMATION FROM OLD SINGLE VALUED FIELD TO NEW MULTIVALUED FIELD
Editor 09-JUN-1995 Mosier, Dan U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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