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Twin Peaks Prospect

Past Producer in Millard county in Utah, United States with commodity Iron
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021096
MRDS ID DC14915
Record type Site
Current site name Twin Peaks Prospect
Alternate or previous names Black Diamond, Black Crystal

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.73858, 38.78968 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Millard(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Black Point(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower 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 Millard

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 023S 008W 27 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • EXACT LOCATION UNKNOWN; MINE IS WITHIN 0.5 MILE RADIUS OF GIVEN LOCATION.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Hematite Ore
Magnetite Ore
Martite Ore

Analytical data

Result 1970 CHEM. ANALYSIS: 60.7 % FE, 3.8 % SILICA, 0.013 % S, 0.019 % P, 0.15 % MN

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.73858, 38.78968
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE TWIN PEAKS ARE COMPOSED OF QUARTZ LATITE AND RHYOLITE VOLCANIC ROCKS ; GEOL.DESC: FISSURE FILLING WITH SOME REPLACEMENT, CONTROLLED BY A FAULT AND FISSURES IN VOLCANIC ROCK

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Twin Peaks

Comments on the workings information

  • DEVELOPMENT CONSIST OF A 200 FT INCLINE SHAFT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BULLOCK, K. C., 1970 , IRON DEPOSITS OF UTAH: UTAH GEOL & MIN SURV BULL 110 , P. 70

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 06-29-1971

Reporter information

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

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