Mine detail: Beaver Tungsten Mines

Previously called 'Oak Claim Garnet Mines Juniper Claims'

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Location

Lat / long:

38.33941, -112.79135

Resource(M)

Primary:	Tungsten
Ore:	Scheelite
Gangue:	Garnet
Orebody form:	VEIN LIKE
Discovery year:	1945

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1943

Geology

Host rock:	Moenkopi Formation;Kaibab Ls;Callville-Pakoon (Principal Host)
Host type:	Limestone
Associated rock:	Lincoln Quartz Monzonite Stock
Associated type:	Granite
Structure:	Basin & Range, N-Trending Faults
Tectonic:	Paleozoic/Early Mesozoic Miogeosyncline
Alteration processes:	Skarn

References

MRDS	D005985
DEP	10011335
Reference	{Deposit:: HOBBS, S W, 1945, TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF BEAVER CO UT: USGS BULL 945-D}{Deposit:: CRAWFORD, A L, 1957, TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF THE MINERAL RANGE, BEAVER COUNTY, UTAH/WITH MINE MAP: UTAH GEOL AND MINERAL SURVEY, REPORT #56}{Deposit:: 1945 COMPILE HOBBS - REF #}{Production:: EVERTS, M L, 1979, ON-SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY}
Reporter	Everts, Michael L., Shubat, Michael A.