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Blackbird Group

Occurrence in Beaver county in Utah, United States with commodity 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. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10094836
MRDS ID DC15063
Record type Site
Current site name Blackbird Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.29553, 38.49246 (WGS84)
Elevation 1951
Relative position IN COPPER GULCH, N. OF CACTUS MINE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaver(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Frisco(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wah Wah Mountains South(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Sevier Lake(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 027S 013W 03 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • PROPERTY INCLUDES THE NEW YEAR'S, BELMONT, AND PURITY CLAIMS.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Length 91.44M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Preuss District

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS ON THE NEW YEAR'S CLAIM ARE A 300 FT SHAFT AND SEVERAL HUNDRED FEET OF DRIFTS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BUTLER, B. S., 1913 , GEOLOGY & ORE DEPOSITS OF SAN FRANCISCO REGION: USGS PROF PAPER 80 , P. 187 - 188

  • Deposit

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

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MINERALIZATION IS SIMILAR TO THE CACTUS MINE.

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

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

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