| Deposit ID | 10010749 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | D004697 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Strategic Metals Mine |
| Alternate or previous names | Big Pass Canyon Mine, Blue Star Mine |
| Related records | 10129982 |
| Geographic coordinates: | -112.82496, 38.30525 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Elevation | 2030 |
| Relative position | 4 MILES NW OF ADAMSVILLE |
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)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Utah | Beaver |
| Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salt Lake | 029S | 009W | 12 | Utah |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Tungsten Critical | Primary |
| Lead | Primary |
| Silver | Primary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Scheelite | Ore |
| Garnet | Gangue |
| Host or associated | Host | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale | ||
| |||
| Host or associated | Host |
|---|---|
| Rock type | Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone |
| Rock unit name | Moenkopi Formation (Host);Tailsman Quartzite;Callville-Pakoon Undiff;Redwall Formation |
| Rock description | Moenkopi Formation (Host);Tailsman Quartzite;Callville-Pakoon Undiff;Redwall Formation |
| (1) | Kaibab Limestone and Toroweap Formation |
|---|
| Type of structure | Regional |
|---|---|
| Structure description | Basin & Range |
| Type of structure | Local |
| Structure description | N-S Trending Faults & Shears That Parallel Bedding |
| General form | LENTICULAR-IRREGULAR VEIN |
|---|---|
| Strike | N 35 DEG E |
| Dip | 75 DEG SE |
| Thickness | 1.52M |
| Length | 274.32M |
| Width | 9.14M |
| Depth to bottom | 18.29M |
| Development status | Past Producer |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Deposit size | Small |
| Significant | No |
| Discovery year | 1940 |
| Year of first production | 1944 |
| District name | Granite/Mineral Range |
|---|
| Ownership category | BLM Administrative Area |
|---|
| Type | Owner-Operator |
|---|---|
| Owner | Mc Garry, Ambrose |
| Year | 1944 | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Period | Pre 1944 | ||||||||||||||
| Accuracy | Estimate | ||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||
| Type of workings | Surface/Underground |
|---|---|
| Length | 106.68M |
| Overall depth | 18.29M |
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | D004697 |
HOBBS, S.W., 1944, TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF BEAVER COUNTY, UTAH: USGS BULL 945-D., P. 107-110/WITH MAP
CRAWFORD, A.,L., 1957, TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF THE MINERAL RANGE, BEAVER COUNTY UTAH/WITH MINE MAPS: UGMS REPRINT #56.
1944 COMPILE HOBBS, S.W. BULL 945-
EVERTS, M.L., 1979, GEOLOGIST.
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | TACTITE ZONE RANGES FROM A FEW INCHES TO MORE THAN 30 FT WIDE |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 01-MAY-1979 | Everts, Michael L. | Bureau of Land Management | |
| Updater | 01-JUL-1985 | Shubat, Michael A. | U.S. Geological Survey |
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