Lady Bryan Mine

Past Producer in Beaver county in Utah, United States with commodities Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Copper, Iron
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. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10087236
MRDS ID D005808
Record type Site
Current site name Lady Bryan Mine
Related records 10300362

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.15636, 38.33524 (WGS84)
Elevation 2018
Relative position 8 1/2 MILES SW OF MILFORD ON SW SIDE STAR RANGE

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 36 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS SW 1/4 NW 1/4 NW 1/4 SECTION 36.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary
Lead Primary
Copper Primary
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Anglesite Ore
Fluorite Ore
Limonite Ore
Malachite Ore
Chlorite Gangue
Diopside Gangue
Epidote Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Tremolite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Narrow Tactite Zone, Silicified

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Intrusives Undiff
    Rock description Intrusives Undiff
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Devonian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Devonian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Guilmette Formation
    Rock description Guilmette Formation
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin & Range Colorado Plateau Transition
Type of structure Local
Structure description (Star Range) Eastward Dipping Homocline Part Of Upper Thrust Plate

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR/IRREGULAR
    Strike N-S
    Dip 70 E

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fissure Fillings And Replacements

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1896
Discoverer Matthew Cullen And A G Campbell
Year of first production 1910

Mining district

District name Star

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Utah Mining-Milling And Trans. Co.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Dr Russell Miller
    Home office Las Vegas, Nv.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 301M
    Overall depth 120M

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFTS, DRIFTS, CROSSCUTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ABOU-ZIED, S, AND WHELAN, J A, 1973, GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY OF THE MILFORD FLAT QUADRANGLE, STAR DIST, BEAVER CO UT: UT GEOL & MIN SURVEY SPEC STUDY 46

  • Deposit

    BAER, J L, 1962, GEOLOGY OF THE STAR RANGE, BEAVER COUNTY, UTAH: BYU GEOLOGY STUDIES V 9, PT 2, P 29-52.

  • Deposit

    BAER, J L, 1973, SUMMARY OF THE STRATAGRAPHY AND STRUCTURE OF THE STAR RANGE, BEAVER COUNTY, UTAH: UTAH GEOL ASSOC PUBL NO 3 P 6

  • Deposit

    BULLOCK, K C, 1976, FLUORITE OCCURRENCES IN UTAH: UT GEOL & MIN SUR BULL 110 P 13

  • Deposit

    1913 GEOLMAP BUTLER, B S, USGS PP #80

  • Deposit

    1920 RECON BUTLER, B S, USGS PP #111

  • Deposit

    1962 GEOLMAP BAER, J L, BYU GEOL. STUDIES V 9

  • Deposit

    1963 COMPILE HEYL, A V, USGS BULL 1135-B

  • Deposit

    1973 COMPILE UGA PUBL #3

  • Deposit

    BAETCKE, G B, 1969, STRATIGRAPHY OF THE STAR RANGE AND RECONNAISSANCE STUDY OF THREE SELECTED MINES: UNIV OF UT P HD THESIS.

  • Deposit

    1973 GEOLMAP UGMS SPECIAL STUDIES #46

  • Production

    EVERTS, M L, 1979, ON-SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1979 Everts, Michael L. Bureau of Land Management
Updater 01-JUL-1985 Shubat, Michael A. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references