Rodenhouse Wash Beryllium Deposit

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodity Beryllium
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Alteration
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Geologic structures
  9. Controls for ore emplacement
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60001004
MRDS ID M057992
Record type District
Current site name Rodenhouse Wash Beryllium Deposit
Alternate or previous names Vanguard Research Property

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.80274, 40.10133 (WGS84)
Relative position A SIMILAR DEPOSIT, ALONG THE SAME TREND, IS ON THE GOLD HILL QUADRANGLE; LOCATION GIVEN IS A REPRESENTATIVE POINT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Clifton(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wildcat Mountain(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Southern 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 Tooele

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Beryllium Critical Tertiary

Alteration

  • (Local) SLIGHT LIMONITE-STAINING, VUGGY APPEARANCE

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.80274, 40.10133

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description BASIN AND RANGE

Controls for ore emplacement

  • BEDDING PLANE FISSURES

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Beyond USGS

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