Molly Claims

Past Producer in Beaver county in Utah, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, Tungsten, 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 10010358
MRDS ID D003970
Record type Site
Current site name Molly Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.79801, 38.32414 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaver(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Adamsville(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Beaver(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

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 Beaver

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 008W 028S 31 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Tungsten Critical Tertiary
Iron Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Scheelite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Tremolite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.79801, 38.32414

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault Fissure Tactite Zones In Metamorphosed Limestone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Granite District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • SOME SPECIMENS INDICATED A .75 % CONTENT OF WO3

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CRAWFORD, A. L., AND BURANEK, A. M., 1945 , UTAH ENG. EXP. STATION BULL. 25 .

  • Deposit

    EARLL, F. N., 1957 , PH. D. THESIS, UNIV. OF UTAH.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit IT IS SAID THAT SOME HIGH GRADE LEAD-SILVER ORE WAS ENCOUNTED ON THE PROPERTY. PRODUCTION FIGURES ARE NOT AVAILABLE, BUT IT MUST HAVE BEEN A VERY SMALL AMOUNT. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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