South Pit Mine

Past Producer in Millard county in Utah, United States with commodities Tungsten, Gold, Molybdenum
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. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10011245
MRDS ID D005788
Record type Site
Current site name South Pit Mine
Alternate or previous names Sidesprings, White Cloud #4, Happy Chance

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.37499, 39.18189 (WGS84)
Elevation 2454
Relative position SE END OF AMASA VALLEY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Millard(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Miller Cove(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tule Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Delta(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Sevier Lake(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 Millard

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 019S 014W 01 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS 1/4 1/4 1/4 NOT SURVEYED

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Gold Secondary
Molybdenum Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Molybdenite Ore
Scheelite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Tactite

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Painter Springs Intrusive
    Rock description Painter Springs Intrusive
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Silt
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Big Horse Can. Ls Member Of Orr Formation
    Rock description Big Horse Can. Ls Mbr. Of Orr Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.37499, 39.18189

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range
Type of structure Local
Structure description Eastern Limb Of Block Faulted Anticline. Sed. Locally Domed By Intrusive

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N35E
    Dip 15SE
    Thickness 3.05M
    Length 106.68M
    Width 30.48M
    Depth to top 3.05M
    Depth to bottom 6.1M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Mineralization Occurrs Along Contact Skarn Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name House Range

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Notch Peak Minerals
  • Type Owner
    Owner U.S. Bureau Of Land Management

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION FIGURES NOT KNOWN

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.022HA
    Overall length 15.24M
    Overall width 15.24M

Comments on the workings information

  • DEPTH: 20 FT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    EVERTS, M.L., 1979, UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY: ON SITE INVESTIGATION

  • Deposit

    HINTZE, L.F., 1974, PRELIM. GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE NOTCH PEAK QUADRANGLE MILLARD COUNTY, UTAH: USGS MF-636

  • Deposit

    EVERETT, F.D., 1961, TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF UTAH: USBM INFORMATION CIRCULAR #8014

  • Deposit

    1876 RECON GILBERT, G.K., 100TH MERIDIAN RPT. V. 3

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

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

  • Production

    EVERTS, M.L., 1979, ONSITE INVESTIGATION: UT. GEOL. AND MIN. SURV.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CLAIMS ARE UP TO DATE

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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