Desert Flower

Past Producer in Box Elder county in Utah, United States with commodity Tungsten
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. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10088322
MRDS ID DB01720
Record type Site
Current site name Desert Flower
Related records 10154405

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.36362, 41.19381 (WGS84)
Elevation 1817
Relative position 5 3/4 MILES SOUTH OF SOUTHERN PACIFIC RR TRACKS NEAR HEAD OF PACK RAT CANYON (EAST SIDE OF RANGE)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Box Elder(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Desert Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Newfoundland Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Brigham City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Northern Great Salt Lake Desert(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management UT)

Bureau of Land Management UT BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Box Elder

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 006N 013W 31 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS NE 1/4 NE 1/4 SE 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Powellite Ore
Scheelite Ore
Epidote Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Limonite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Garnetization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Newfoundland Stock
    Rock description Newfoundland Stock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Garden City Formation
    Rock description Garden City Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.36362, 41.19381

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR TO IRREGULAR
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Igneous - Limestone Contact

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Newfoundland Mtns.

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Sun Mining Co

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 45.72M

Comments on the workings information

  • ANOTHER SHORT ADIT 700 FEET BELOW AND 900 FT. TO EAST.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PADDOCK, R. E., 1956 , GEOLOGY OF THE NEWFOUNDLAND MOUNTAINS, BOX ELDER COUNTY, UTAH: UNIV. OF UTAH, M. S. THESIS

  • Deposit

    1956 GEOLMAP PADDOCK, UNIV. OF UTAH M. S. THESI

  • Reserve-Resource

    DOELLING, H. H., 1979 , UTAH GEOL. AND MINERALOG. SURVEY ON-SITE INVESTIGATION

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1979 Doelling, Hellmut H. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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