Unknown Adit

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10010733
MRDS ID D004653
Record type Site
Current site name Unknown Adit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.44388, 39.15717 (WGS84)
Elevation 1707
Relative position 2.0 MILES DUE SOUTH OF PAINTER SPRING

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Millard(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Notch Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tule Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Delta(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Tule Valley(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt 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 Millard

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 019S 014W 17 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS SE 1/4 SW 1/4 NE 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore
Biotite Gangue
Feldspar Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Idocrase Gangue
Pyrite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Skarn Zone Containing Abundant Brown Garnet

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Rock unit name Painter Springs Intrusive
    Rock description Painter Springs Intrusive
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Marble
    Rock unit name Weeks Form., Principle Host;Orr Form.;Notch Peak Formation
    Rock description Weeks Form., Principle Host;Orr Form.;Notch Peak Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.44388, 39.15717

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin & Range
Type of structure Local
Structure description Broad General Anticline, Tilted Southeast By Highangle Fault On West Side Of Range

Ore body information

  • General form LINEAR VIEN
    Strike N 40 DEG E.
    Dip 21 DEG SE
    Thickness 3.05M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 3.05M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Mineralization Occurs In Skarn Zones Controlled By Fractures In Close Contact With Qtz Monz. Intrusion

Comments on the geologic information

  • TUNGSTEN ORE OCCURS AS POWDERY DISSEMINATIONS IN METAMORPHOSED BIOTITE MARBLE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name House Range

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner U.S. Bureau Of Land Management

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 15.24M
    Overall depth 9.14M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    EVERTS, M.L., 1979 UTAH GEOL. & MIN SURVEY: ON SITE INVESTIGATION

  • Deposit

    HINTZE, L.F., 1974, PRELIM. GEOL. MAP OF NOTCH PEAK QUADRANGLE; USGS MF 636

  • Deposit

    HINTZE, L.F., 1973, GEOLOGIC HISTORY OF UTAH: BYU GEOL. STUDIES V. 20 PT 3

  • Deposit

    GEHMAN, HARRY MERRILL JR., 1958, NOTCH PEAK INTRUSIVE, MILLARD COUNTY, UTAH: UGMS BULL 62, 50P.

  • Deposit

    1876 RECON GILBERT, G.K., 100TH MER. RPT. V3

  • Deposit

    1908 RECON WALCOTT, C.D., SMITHSONIAN MIS COLL V.53

  • Deposit

    1951 RECON WHEELER, H.E., UGMS GUIDEBOOK 6

  • Production

    M. EVERTS, 1979

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1979 Everts, Michael L. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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