Mine detail: Unknown Prospect

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Location: Millard County, Utah, United States, North America
Lat / long: 39.19523, -113.40304
dep_id: 10010582
mrds_id: D004369
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Tungsten
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Contact Metamorphic
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Scheelite
gangue: Epidote, Idocrase
orebody_fm: IRREGULAR
work_type: Underground
alteration: Skarn
conc_proc: Hydrothermal Solution Channeling
ore_ctrl: Proximity To Contact Zone Of The Intrusive With The Limestone, And A Northwest Trending Fracture Zone
Reporter: Everts, Michael L.
hrock_unit: Big Hourse Canyon Ls Member Of The Orr Formation;Weeks Formation;Marjum Formation
hrock_type: Limestone,Dolomite
arock_unit: Painter Springs Intrusion
arock_type: Quartz Monzonite,Plutonic Rock,Granite
Structure: Basin And Range, The Area Is A Limestone Roof Pendant Domed Up By The Intrusive. It Is Also A Titled (Se) Fault Block
tectonic: Cordilleran Geosyncline
Year first produced: 1955
References:
  • Deposit:: EVERTS, M.L., 1979, UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY: ON SITE INVESTIGATION
  • Deposit:: HINTZE, L.F., 1974, PRELIM. GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE NOTCH PEAK QUADRANGLE MILLARD COUNTY, UTAH: USGS MF-636
  • Deposit:: EVERETT, F.D., 1961, TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF UTAH: USBM INFORMATION CIRCULAR #8014
  • Deposit:: 1876 RECON GILBERT, G.K., 100TH MERIDIAN RPT. V.3
  • Deposit:: 1908 RECON WALCOTT, C.D., SMITHSONIAN MIS COLL. V.53
  • Deposit:: 1951 RECON WHEELER, H.E., UGMS GUIDEBOOK #6
  • Production:: EVERTS, M.L., 1979.
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