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Barbee & Walker Area

Past Producer in Washington county in Utah, United States with commodities Silver, Copper
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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. Ore body information
  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 10021272
MRDS ID DC15438
Record type Site
Current site name Barbee & Walker Area

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.37219, 37.2547 (WGS84)
Relative position NORTHERN PART OF WHITE REEF

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Washington(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pintura(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Saint George(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Cedar City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Virgin(hydrologic unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Washington

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 041S 014W 01 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • AREA INCLUDES THE HONEST MINER MINE AND BARBEE & WALKER MINE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Copper Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • THE MALACHITE OCCUR AS REPLACEMENTS OF FOSSIL PLANTS.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cerargyrite Ore
Malachite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form FINELY DISSEMINATED

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE HOST ROCK IS A WHITE FINELY LAMINATED FINE-GRAIN SANDSTONE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Harrisburg District

Comments on the production information

  • THE HONEST MINER MINE PRODUCED A FEW THOUSAND DOLLARS. THE BARBEE & WALKER MINE PRODUCED ALMOST A MILLION DOLLARS

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A 97 FT AND A 110 FT SHAFT, AND AN INCLINE SHAFT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PROCTOR, P. D., 1953 , GEOLOGY OF THE SILVER REEF MINING DISTRICT: UGMS BULL 44 , P. 147

  • Deposit

    CORNWALL, H. R., LAKIN, H. W., NAKAGAWA, H. M., STAGER, H. K., 1967 , SILVER AND MERCURY GEOCHEMICAL ANOMALIES IN THE COMSTOCK, TONOPAH, AND SILVER REEF DISTRICTS: USGS PROF PAPER 575 - B, P. 10 - 20

  • Deposit

    CONSV. COMP. DATE, 04-29-1971

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1991 Wong, George U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-APR-1979 Tooker, Ed U.S. Geological Survey

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