Woodhouse Shafts

Past Producer in Beaver county in Utah, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Manganese, 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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Controls for ore emplacement
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10101502
MRDS ID D003996
Record type Site
Current site name Woodhouse Shafts
Related records 10300065

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.09163, 38.35357 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaver(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Milford Flat(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 011W 028S 28 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Lead Secondary
Zinc Critical Secondary
Copper Tertiary
Manganese Critical Tertiary
Iron Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Hematite Ore
Limonite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.09163, 38.35357

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fissures

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Star District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ABOU-ZIED, M. S., 1968 , PH. D. THESIS, UNIV. OF UTAH.

  • Deposit

    ABOU-ZIED, M. S., AND WHELAN, J. A., 1973 , UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURVEY SPEC. STUDIES 46 .

  • Deposit

    ABOU-ZIED ( 1973 ) GEOLOGY & MINERALOGY OF MILFORD FLAT QUAD. P. 13 .

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit A SMALL VEIN GAVE VALUES OF NEARLY $6000 IN GOLD AND 150 OUNCES OF SILVER. A FORTY-TON CARLOAD OF APPROXIMATELY $200 A TON WAS SHIPPED IN 1912 . ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1978 Steven, T. A. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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