Elephant Mine

Occurrence in Beaver county in Utah, United States with commodities Lead, Zinc
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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Geologic structures
  9. Controls for ore emplacement
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021170
MRDS ID DC15123
Record type Site
Current site name Elephant Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.14219, 38.34857 (WGS84)
Elevation 1871
Relative position SOUTH OF ELEPHANT CANYON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaver(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Picacho Peak(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 028S 012W 25 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.14219, 38.34857

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description South Of The Mine Is The Elephant Fault.

Controls for ore emplacement

  • E - W Fissure

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Star District

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BUTLER, B. S., 1913 , GEOL & ORE DEP OF SAN FRANCISCO REGION: USGS PROF PAPER 80 , P. 198 - 199

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 03-27-1958

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

Beyond USGS

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