A & W Mine

Producer in Box Elder 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10011084
MRDS ID D005297
Record type Site
Current site name A & W Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.7528, 41.52353 (WGS84)
Elevation 2051
Relative position 3/4 MILE SE OF ROCKY PASS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Box Elder(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Rocky Pass Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Grouse Creek(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Brigham City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Northern Great Salt Lake Desert(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Box Elder

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 009N 017W 11 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS NE 1/4 NE 1/4 NE 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Powellite Ore
Scheelite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Epidote Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result 4 FOOT CHIP SAMPLE YIELDED 0.61 PERCENT WO3

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Grouse Creek Pluton Or Emigrant Pass Intrusion
    Rock description Grouse Creek Pluton Or Emigrant Pass Intrusion
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Devonian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Devonian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Guilmette Limestone
    Rock description Guilmette Limestone

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 70 E
    Dip 20 DEG SE
    Thickness 1.22M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Favorable Limestone Beds Along Igneous Contact.

Comments on the geologic information

  • K2 COMPTON AND OTHERS, 1977, CALL THIS INTRUSION GRANODIORITE VERGING ON ADAMELLITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Rosebud

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • PERHAPS 1000 STU REMAIN IN DEPOSIT.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 42.67M
    Overall length 42.67M
    Overall width 9.14M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: UGMS FILES

  • Deposit

    EVERETT, F.D., 1961, TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS IN UTAH: US BUREAU MINES INF. CIRC. 8014.

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, H.H., IN PREPARATION, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF BOX ELDER COUNTY, UTAH: UTAH GEOL. & MINERAL SURVEY BULLETIN.

  • Deposit

    1973 MINEMAP UTAH GEOL & MINERAL SURVE

  • Production

    THIS REVIEW

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1979 Doelling, Hellmut H. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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