Opex Property

Occurrence in Juab county in Utah, United States with commodities Manganese, Barium-Barite
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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  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 10095566
MRDS ID M057564
Record type Site
Current site name Opex Property

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.12162, 39.93189 (WGS84)
Elevation 2122
Relative position IN MAMMOTH GULCH, N. OF MAMMOTH

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Juab(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Eureka(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lynndyl(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Delta(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Sevier(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 Juab

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 010S 003W 24,25 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • PROPERTY EXTENDS FOR .3 MILES

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Tertiary
Barium-Barite Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.12162, 39.93189

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Beds Are Slightly Overturned At Depth. The Workings Follow A N - S Fault.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Significant No

Mining district

District name Tintic District

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF TWO SHAFTS, THE NEW SHAFT IS 2,200 FT DEEP WITH EIGHT LEVELS. THE WORKINGS WERE DEVELOPED IN HOPES OF CONNECTING WITH THE CENTENNIAL - EUREKA ORE BODY, BUT IT DID NOT OCCUR.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN, W. AND LOUGHLIN, G. F., 1919 , GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE TINTIC MINING DISTRICT: USGS PROF PAPER 107 , P. 203 - 204

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1979 Wong, George (Tooker, Ed) Bureau of Land Management
Updater 01-MAR-1982 Wong, George (Morris, H.T.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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