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Wah Wah Pass Prospects

Occurrence in Beaver 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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021132
MRDS ID DC15025
Record type Site
Current site name Wah Wah Pass Prospects
Alternate or previous names Red Claim, West Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.57054, 38.52885 (WGS84)
Elevation 2024
Relative position 1.75 MILES NW OF WAH WAH SUMMIT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaver(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Wah Wah Summit(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

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

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Pine Valley(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt 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 015W 19 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • THE ORE IS HARD CLINKERY AND OCCURS IN LARGE CHUNKS AND BLOCKS

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Hematite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Contact Metamorphism Around The Intrusives Producing Marble And Skarn Minerals.

Analytical data

Result 1970 CHEM ANALYSIS 57.6 % FE, 3.0 % SILICA, 0.25 % S, 0.01 % P, 0.01 % MN

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.57054, 38.52885
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Mineralization Occurs Along Bedding Planes, Joints, Small Fissures And Faults.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Pine Grove District

Comments on the workings information

  • DEVELOPMENT CONSIST OF 10 FT PROSPECT PIT, A THREE FOOT PIT, A SHORT ADIT, AND A 30 FT SHAFT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BULLOCK, K. C., 1970 , IRON DEPOSITS OF UTAH: UTAH G & MS BULL 88 , P. 13 - 14

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 06-28-1971

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit IRON OCCURS IN A 5 FT GOUGE ZONE ALONG A NORTH TRENDING FAULT.

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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