Golden Reef Mine

Past Producer in Beaver county in Utah, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, Gold
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. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10011289
MRDS ID D005868
Record type Site
Current site name Golden Reef Mine
Related records 10203316

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.26359, 38.5294 (WGS84)
Elevation 2316
Relative position 1 1/4 MILE NE OF USMM 239 & 5 MILES NORTH OF FRISCO TOWNSITE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaver(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Frisco Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wah Wah Mountains North(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 026S 013W 24 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • NW 1/4, SW 1/4, SW 1/4 SEC 24

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Secondary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Barite Gangue
Hematite Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Marblization

Analytical data

Result AVE: 1% PB, 20 PPM AU, 10 PPM AG

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Intrusives (Cactus Stock);Volcanics
    Rock description Intrusives (Cactus Stock);Volcanics
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Prospect Mtn Quartzite
    Rock description Prospect Mtn Quartzite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.26359, 38.5294

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range Structure
Type of structure Local
Structure description Local Faults (Galena Fault N63 Deg E)

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike N 5 E
    Dip 80 E
    Thickness 0.61M
    Length 91.44M
    Width 128.02M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 30.48M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fractures That Strike N-S And Accompanying Breccia Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1909
Year of first production 1909

Mining district

District name Newhouse

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Area 0.242HA
    Length 842.77M
    Overall depth 70.1M
    Overall length 842.77M
    Overall width 3.05M

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFTS, RAISES, WINZES, ADITS, DRIFTS, CROSSCUTS, AND TEST PITS. AN ADIT AT LEAST 1800 FT LONG

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    EVERTS, M L, 1979, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UT GEOL AND MIN SUR.

  • Deposit

    PERRY, L I AND MCCARTHY, B M, 1976 LEAD AND ZINC IN UTAH, UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY, OPEN-FILE REPORT NO 22 P 61-62

  • Deposit

    HAVENOR, H.E. AND HERBST, V.B., 1908, SOME SALIENT FEATURES OF THE GEOLOGY OF NEWHOUSE, UTAH: UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, MS THESIS.

  • Deposit

    1913 RECON BUTLER, B S, USGS PP #8

  • Production

    EVERTS, MIL, 1979, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UT GEOL AND MIN SUR

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ACTIVE IN 1909

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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

External references