Orphan Boy Group

Past Producer 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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021171
MRDS ID DC15126
Record type Site
Current site name Orphan Boy Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.14969, 38.35524 (WGS84)
Elevation 1951
Relative position WEST OF THE HEAD 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 24 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.14969, 38.35524

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Production years 1926-1928

Mining district

District name Star District

Comments on the production information

  • SEVERAL CARS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BUTLER, B. S., 1913 , GEOL & ORE DEP OF SAN FRANCISCO REGION: USGS PP 80 , P. 198

  • Deposit

    USBM MIN. RES. 1926, 1929.

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 02-18-1965

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.