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Van Horn Prospect

Occurrence in Beaver county in Utah, United States with commodities Lead, Silver
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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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021152
MRDS ID DC15079
Record type Site
Current site name Van Horn Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.27553, 38.45774 (WGS84)
Elevation 2027
Relative position IN SQUAW GULCH

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaver(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Frisco(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wah Wah Mountains South(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Beaver

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 027S 014W 14 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Tertiary
Silver Tertiary

Host and associated rocks

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

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • LARGE QUANTITIES OF WATER WERE ENCOUNTERED.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name San Francisco District

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS INCLUDE A 120 FT SHAFT WITH A 100 FT DRIFT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    STRINGHAM, B., 1967 , HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION NEAR HORN SILVER MINE: UGMS SPEC STUD 16 , P. 34

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 03-29-1971

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1974 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAR-1982 Wong, George U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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