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Beaver Dam Mtn.

Past Producer in Washington county in Utah, United States with commodity Tungsten
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10008883
MRDS ID D001369
Record type Site
Current site name Beaver Dam Mtn.

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.88414, 37.14998 (WGS84)
Elevation 1463
Relative position 4 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF CASTLE CLIFFS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Washington(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

West Mountain Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Saint George(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Cedar City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Virgin(hydrologic unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management UT)

Bureau of Land Management UT BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Washington

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 042S 019W 24 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS SE 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore
Hematite Gangue
Limonite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Gneiss
    Rock description Gneiss
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.88414, 37.14998
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Beaver Dam Mts.

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Thickness 0.08M
    Length 152.4M
    Width 91.44M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Quartz Veinlets

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Tutsagubet

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the production information

  • A FEW TONS OF SORTED ORE CONTAINING 20 PERCENT OF WO3 WERE PRODUCED IN 1944 FROM THE CASTLE CLIFF MINE WEST OF ST. GEORGE.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall length 609.6M
    Overall width 609.6M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF 10 PROSPECT PITS, AN ADIT & SEVERAL DOZEN CUTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., UNPUBLISHED DATA.

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., AND TWETO, O.L., 1962, TUNGSTEN IN THE U.S., USGS MAP, MR-25.

  • Production

    D.M. LEMMON, 1962

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1973 Elliott, James E. Bureau of Land Management
Updater 01-JUN-1979 Perry, Lee I. U.S. Geological Survey

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

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