Bat Ridge Deposit

Occurrence in Beaver county in Utah, United States with commodity Iron
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. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010331
MRDS ID D003937
Record type Site
Current site name Bat Ridge Deposit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.09386, 38.5444 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaver(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lime Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wah Wah Mountains North(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Beaver

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 011W 026S 16 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnetite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.09386, 38.5444

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Igneous Contact

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Beaver Lake District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • A FEW HUNDRED TONS OF IRON ORE MAYBE AVAILABLE AVERAGING 48 - 50 % IRON CONTENT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BULLOCK, K. C., 1970 , UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURVEY BULL. 88 .

  • Deposit

    BAROSH, P. J., 1960 , UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURVEY BULL 68 .

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE ORE BODY IS ESTIMATED TO BE 18X100 FEET IN DIMENSION ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1978 Steven, T. A. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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