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Emma Mine

Past Producer in Beaver county in Utah, United States with commodities Iron, Gold, Manganese, Copper
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  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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10020118
MRDS ID DC12599
Record type Site
Current site name Emma Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.4697, 38.2094 (WGS84)
Elevation 1920
Relative position WEST OF IRON MOUNTAIN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaver(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Blue Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wah Wah Mountains South(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Escalante Desert(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 030S 014W 07 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary
Gold Secondary
Manganese Critical Tertiary
Copper Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • HEMATITE IS HARD AND OCHEROUS

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Goethite Ore
Hematite Ore
Limonite Ore

Analytical data

Result SURFACE OUTCROP ORES ASSAY $5.00/TON IN GOLD. 1970 CHEM. ANALYSIS: 55.1 % FE, 10.4 % SILICA, 0.3 % S, 0.11 % P, 0.81 % MN.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.4697, 38.2094
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description The Limestone Belong To The Blue Mountain Thrust Plate

Ore body information

  • General form FISSURE FILLINGS AND PARTIAL REPLACEMENTS

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Along High Angle Faults Near The Thrust Fault.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Pine Grove District

Comments on the production information

  • SEVERAL HUNDRED TONS OF FLUXING WAS SHIPPED.

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF NUMEROUS PITS, ADITS, A 220 FT SHAFT WITH THREE LEVELS TOTALING 1,000 FT.

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: FLUXING ORE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BULLOCK, K.C., 1970 , IRON DEPOSITS OF UTAH: UTAH G & MS BULL 88 , P. 13

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 06-25-1971

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit COPPER OCCURS IN A VEIN ON THE 100 FT LEVEL OF THE EMMA SHAFT.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1974 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAR-1979 Wong, George (Tooker, Ed) U.S. Geological Survey

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

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