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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Harold L. 10k.., Sec:rela'7
GBOLOGICAL SURvn , ,
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TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS
IN BEAVER COUNTY, UTAH

BY

S. W. HOBBS

Slrateaic Miura" Im_lptiona. 1944

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UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFnCE
WASHINGTON: 1945

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Abstraot •••••••••••••• • ••••••.••••••••••••••••••••. ' "0 •••• 81

Introduotion ••••••••••••••••••••••. P .•••••••••••••••••••• 82
Location, aooessibility, and transportatIon •••••• '•••• 82
History ot the area • ••.••.••••••••••••••••••••' ••••.•• 82
Previous "ork ••.••.•••••••••..••••••••••••••••••••••• 83
Field work ••••••••••••••••• • ••••••••••••••.••• '" .... ..... 8~
Geology ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• ,. ......... . .. . 84
Topography and regional BettIng ••••••••••• • •••••••••• a.
Rocke ...................................... ........ .0 ••• a.
Sedimentary rock ....... . .................... .... .. . 85
Igneous rock!! ••• • •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 85
Structure ..• • ••••••••• . •• '•••••.••.••.••• • •••••••••••• 86
Tungsten deposits •••••••••••• '............. . .............. . 8'7
Cupric J'l1nes Co. tungsten deposit •••••o• • • o.~ • • • • • • • • • 8'7
Geology ••••••••••••••••• •• ••••••••••••••••••••••• 88
Sedimentary rocks .......................... .. .. . 88
Igneous rook ................. . ........ ........ . 88
Structure ..................................... . 88
Contact metamorphism ••••••••••••••••••••••.••• 89
Occurrence ot scheelite ••••• • •••••••••••••••• 89
Distribution, grade, and volume or ore ••• •••••••• 92
Ol.d H1 ckory mine ........................................ . 94
Geology .. . ........ . ..................... ~ ............ . 95
Sedimentary rocks ............................... . 95
Igneous ro oks ................................ . 96
S truc ture ..................................... . 96
Ore depos1 t •• ',' ............ . ...................... . 96
Kineralogy ....................... . ... . ........ . 9E1
Ore shoots and limit. ot ore ••••••••••••••••• 9'7
Production and reserves ........................... . . 98
Copper Ranch mine •••••••••••••••••••••••••• '.......... . 99
Geology ............................................ . 100
. Ore deposi t ...........................' ............ . 100
Reserves ............................................... , 101
Copper King mine ••••••••••• • ••••••••••••••••••• • ••••• 101
Geology ............................-............... . 101
Ore deposi t ....................................... . 101
Production and re.erve •••••••••••••••••••••• ~ •••• 102
Daily Ketal Kine.' property ................... . ....... -. 102.
Geology ........... . ............................ . . . 10~
Ore deposit •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 10~
Distribution ot scheelite ••• • ••••••••••••••••••-•• 104
Grade ot scheelite ore • • • •• •••••••••••••••••••••• 105
Reserves ........................................... . 105
Contact claim ........................................... . 105
Oak claim ......................... ,...................... . 106
Strategic Hetala mine .......... . ....................... , 10'7
Geology ..................................... 0 ...... . 10'7
Ore deposit •••••••••••••••••••••• 0 •••••••••••••••• lOS
Reserves and future ot the 4eposlt ••••••••••••••• 109
Oreole mine ............................................. . 110
!finor occurrence • . ot schee11 teo ................. 0," • • ' . . .. 110 ·
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ILLUSTRATIONS

Page
Plate 32. Hap aho"ing locat~n and geolog1c BettIng ot
the tungsten deposita ot Beaver County,
Utah .....................................~ •• In pocket
33. Topographio and geolog1c map ot the tungaten
deposita, Cupric Hine. Co. property,
San Francisoo mining dIstrict, Beaver
Coun t,., Utab •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• In pooket
34. Geolog1c map ot the "An ore body, CUpric
tu~ten depos1t, Beaver County, Utah •••• • In pooket
35. Underground workings at the Cupr1c tungsten
depo8It, Beaver County, Utah •••••••••••••• In pooket
36. Topographic and geolog1c map ot the Old .
Hlckory mUle and violnlt1, Rookr mining
district, Beaver County, Utah ••••.••••••••• In pocket
37. Plan -and aections ot the Old H1ckory mine,
Beaver County, utah ••••••••••••••••••••••• In pooket -
38. Geolog1c map and sectIon ot underground
"orklnga ot the Copper Ranoh m1ne, Beaver
County, Utah •• 00 0 0 0 0 •••••••••••••••• • ••••• In pocket
39. Surta'oe geology and Wlderground ftork1nga at
the Garnet olaim and adjacent properties,
Beaver County, Utah ••• 0.0 • • • • • • • • • •, •••••••• In pocket
40. Geolog1c map ot the Strategic Hetals mlne,
Beaver County, Utah ................. . ..... . In pooket

TABLI!S

Table 5. Sample data trom t he Bureau ot H1nes ad! t on

the Cupric Hlnes Co. property •••-•••••••••• 93
6. Sample data trom the Metals Reserve Co. ad!t
on the Cupric Mine. Co. property •••••••••• 9'
 TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS IN BEAVER COUNTY, UTAH

By S. W. Hobbs

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ABSTRACT ..
Although mining activity in Beaver County, Utah, haa extend~
ad from 1860 to the present, the 8cbeellte deposlts in this area
were not discovered until the spring of 1940. The deposlts dis-
cussed in this report are all within a radius of 20 mil os ot tbe
town of Hilford in Beaver County. The scheellte occurs in meta-
morphosed limestones along the contacts wIth 'IntrusIve quartz
monzonite and granite. Most ot it snows a atrong yellow rluo~
reSCenCB color, which indicates that it probably oaptains leveral
percent of calcium molybdate. or the many scattered oocurrences
of the mineral, th~ most important are mentioned below.
One of these occurrences Is on a part of the Cupric Hinos Co.
property in the San Francisco district. A large quartz monzonite
stock has here been intruded into limestones of varied compOsi-
tion. A pure white limestone shows hardly any replacement meta-
morphism even at the ~ediate contact, but dark-gray impure
limestones are metamorphosed in different degrees td rOcks con-
~aining garnet, diopside, wollastonite, and other silicates, and
it 18 these metamorphic rocks that contain most of the s·cheelite.,
The scheelite is always associated with the more highly garnet-
ized rocks, and its localization is apparently determined (1) by
the proximity of an intrusive contaot, (2) by the 'c omposition of
the limestone, a.n d (3) by fraotur1ng and brecoiation. The prop-
erty contains several small but moderately good surface exposures
of scheelite ope. Exploration work by private comPanies, the
Bureau of .Hines, United States Department of the Interior, and
the ~Desert S1lver M1ning Co. for Hetals Reserve Co., however,
failed to prove any tonnage of scheelite-bear1ng rock that could
be considered 'ore a~ market prices , current in 1943.
At the Old Hickory 'mlne, in the Rocky mining dis"trict, there
is a deposit similar to those at the Cupric mine. CertaIn layers
.... in a sequence of limestone, quartzite, and shale, standing verti-
cal, have been replaced 'by magnetite, garnet, diopside, sulfides,
and scheelite near an intrusive contact with quartz monzonite.
The scheelite is in a magnetite-·r ich layer, which ranges in width
from 8 to 25 teet, has . an ou tcrop about 450 feet long , and ex-
tends downward for at least 300 feet. The ore is somewhat fault-
ed. All the soheelite of Qommeroial importanoe occurs near the
igneous contaot. Some ore shoots in the mine are localized by
dikes, but most ot the scheelite is in pookets scattered througb
the magnetite. Host of the higher-grade ore was mined out by the
fall ot ,1943, and the mine was closed. Some lower-grade materl~
al, not economic at price~ current in 194~, remains in the mine.
The ·Copper ~nch mine, also in the Rocky mining district,
contains 8cheelite having the sac, general mode ot 'occurrence 8S
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82 STRATEGIC MINERALS INVESTIGATIONS, 1944

at the other localIties. Small grains and clusters of grains of

soheellte occur In metamorphosed limestone -to" a depth ·o f at least
400 teet and f or a horizontal distance of several hundred feet.
The conoentrations of the mineral are controlled both by bedding
and by igneous contacts. Huch of the mineral Is 80ft and has a
marked yellow fluorescence that suggests a hIgh. molybdenum con-
tent. The mine probably contains at least 2,200 tons of ore that
will average i percent of W03, and it may contain several t~es
this amount.
The Copper King mine contatns some irregular bodies of
aoheellte ore In an ocourrence similar to that at the Old Hickory
mine. Twenty-three hundred tons of ore averaging 0.53 percen t
W0 3 had been mined from this property by March 1944 .
Numerous occurrenoes of soheelite have also been found in . the
Hineral Mountains between Milrord and Beaver. The three most
important of these deposits are at t he Creole mine near Miners-
ville, and at the Strategic Metal and Garnet properties on the
east side of the range near Adamsville. The Creole mine supplied
several hundred tons of ore containing an average of 0.75 percent
W0 3 , but this had been mine d out by Hay 1944 and no more has been
found. ~e Daily Metal mines has developed an extensive tact~te
zone at the Garnet olaim on the east side of the Mineral Moun-
tains. About 750 tons of ore which contained approximately 0.65
peroent W03 had been shipped trom this property by March 1944.
The Strategio Metals mine 'ne$r the mouth of Pass Canyon and
northwest of Adamsville contains a small amount of Gre, but this
property waB still in tbe prospeot stage of development in the
spring of 1944. Scheelite occurs here both in tactite immediate-
ly adjacent to the granite contact and in shear zones which ex-
tend ' 1nto the limestone 100 feet or more from the contact. Small
pockets of high-grade tactite ore may contain several percent "
WO~. A shi~ent ot 150 tons of ore from the principal shear zone
contained an average of 0.95 percent W03'

INTRODUCTION
Location. acceSSibility. and transportation
Scheelite occurs at scattered localities in the central and
northcentral part~ of Beaver County, utah, between Beaver Valley
on the east and Wah Wah Valley on the west. All the localities
are wi thin a radius of 20 miles from the town of Mil'f ord. The
firs't scheelite occurrence was discovered west of the town in
the Rocky and San Francisco Rangss, but other scheelite-bearing
areas have been discovered more recently in the Mineral Range to
the east. " Plate 32 shows the location of these deposits and the "
general geology of the districts.
"Transportation facilities f or the area are good, as ~the town "
of Milford is on the main line of the Union Pacific Railroad, and
only 245 miles by a good highway from Salt Lake City. Host of
the deposlts are within short distances of Good graded or surfac-
ed roads that connect with t he railroad at "Hilford or with U. S.
Highway 91 at the town of Beaver.

History of the area

Ore deposits in Beaver County were first discovered in 1860,

but m1ning did not became an important industry in the area until
 TUNGSTBII DEPOSITS. BEAVER COUNTY. UT An 83

about 1870. The principal metals or the district were copper,

zinc, lead, and silver . The discovery in 1875 ot the ore deposlt
developed in the Horn SIlver mine greatly stimulated mlhing
actIvIty and the development ot railroad facllities and
41strlbu- .
ting centera tor the districts. Since 1918, mining Pas b~en done
only no" and then and on a small 8cale, and a:11 of the big mines
are now clol!led.
The discovery ot scheellte in the Mllford area in 1940 led to
an 1ntensive search tor the mineral throughout the region, and it
was Boon topnd to be rather wldespread. In 1940 and 1941, tbe
Prosper Mining Co. ot Hilford attempted to develop 80heellte ore
found in the Old Hlckory mine northwest of the town ot Milford.
In 1941 c. 11. Segerstr01'l leased the property and mining "as
started. At about the same time. scheelite was discovered in- the
contact zone on th~ Cupric property, and lntensive' work with an
ultrav~olet lamp outlined a oonsiderable area ot Boheelite-bear- ,
ing ground. No development work had yet been done on this prop-
erty, however, In the taIlor 1941. , Scheelite was, subsequantl7
discovered at the nearby Copper Ranch, Montreal, and Copper King
properties, all to the weat of Milrord, and at the Creole, Garnet
(Paily Hetal mines), Pass Canyon (Strategic Metals Dines), and
several adjacent properties in the Mineral Hountains east of Hil-
tord.

Previou s work

A very complete and comprehensive account of the geology and

mineral resources of the San Francisco region, utah, has been
given hy B. S. Butler.!! A brief description ot the Hineral
R~ge is given by Butler in' Professional Paper 1~1.2/ The
Cactus, Delamar, and Ho~ Silver minea in this .areahave been
described by Bmmons,3/ and Rohlfing !I has described ,the ~orn
Silver veins. A number or other authors have described various
minerals trom the district.
None ot the previous workers has mentioned the o'ccurrence of
Bcheelite in . the district, and they probably did not even -suspect
its presence, tor it is almost impossible to detect th~ mineral
in MOst ot the ore without special methods of determination, and
it 1s only since the advent of the ultravio+et lamp that -the
mineral could be readi}y detected.

Pield work

During the month of November 1941, the author, assisted by

Hr. Prank Byers, studied the principal soheelite occu~renoes of
, Beaver County. Detailed topographic and geologic maps were made

!I Butler. 'B. S •• Oeologr sod ore depo.its ot tbe Sen Francisco and .
adjeeent dletricte. Utab: _ U. S. Geol. SUrTey Prot. Peper BO. 212 pp., 1913.
!I Butler, B. S., Lo~lln, G. r., Hetkee. V. C., Bnd others, The ore
depih ot Utah: U. S. Ceo1. Su.ney Prot. Peper 111, pp. 529-~36, 1920.
V 1I:IIlone, S. r~, The Cecha Copper mine, Utab: U. S. Gaol. SuM81
Bu.ll. 260, pp. M2-~. 190~; The Debur end Horn S1l'nr aines. two types ot
ore depoelta in tbe de ••rte ot NeTsde end Utah: Am. In.t. Min. Met. Eng.
Trant., To1. 31, pp. 658-683, 1902.
!I Rohlting. D. P •• Th. greet Horn SllTer Tela 10 BeeTer Count1. Uteb:
Salt Lake II1D. ReT. 1, 1lO. 12. pp. 23-24. 1917.
 STRATEGIC ftIHERALB INVESTIGATIONS, 19.4

ot the tungsten~bearlng areas of the Cuprio, Old Hickory, and

Copper Ranch properties, and several les8 promising properties
were visited but not mapped. Muoh of the area was studied at
nlgbt with an ultraviolet lamp to determine the yutl1ne8 ~t the
possible scheellte ore bodies, but because of the scattered and
erratic d1strlbutloh ot the scheellte 1n the deposits, no system-
atic sampling was attempted at that time. Subsequent exploration
work by private oompanies, the Bure~ ot Hinea and the Hetals
j
Reserve Co. has supplied muoh intormatlon on grade of ore and ·
reserves. The writer revisited the area in January 1943, and
with the assistance ot Hr. S. B. Clabaugh revised some ot the
prevlou8 work; 1n addition, he mapped soveral ot the nowty
developed properties in tbe Hineral Range. Some additional work
was done 10 Karch 1944.
The writer gratefully acknowledges tbe cooperation and
assistance of Mr. Paul H. Hunt, of the Park Utah Consolidated
Mines, Keetley, Utah, and ot Hr. Karl Hanney, ot Frisco, in con-
nectioh with the work on the CUpric and Copper Ranch properties.
Mr. Hanney spent much time al guide on these properties and on
other prospects 1n the district. Hr. "E . Nash, engineer f"or Mr.
Segerstrom at the Old Hickory mine, gave all possible assistance
during the work there) he also accompanied the author to a number
of nearby localities and assisted in obtaining samples and speci-
mens. Hr. Donald Segerstrom gave much assistance to the writer
during visits to the properties in 1943 and 1944.

GEOLOGY

TopographY and regional setting

The tungsten deposits herein discussed are on the f"lanks of a

series of mountain ranges near the eastern border of the Bas1n
and Range province. One ot these ranges, the San Francisco Houn-"
tains, extends in a north-south direction across the "western part
ot the area. These mountains have a maximum altitude of 9,725
feet. They are bordered on the west by the wide Wah Wah Valley,
whoee floor is at an altitude of about 5,000 feet, and on the
east by a broad plain, which slopes trom an altitude of 6,600
feet at the old town ot Prisoo to one of about 5,000 feet in Mil-
lord Valley, 14 miles to the east. Pour miles west at Milford
Valley the plain is narrow"e d to 2i miles between two small- north-
trending ranges, the Beaver Lake Mountains to the north and the
Star Rang, to the south. A southe"ast extension ot the Beaver
Lake Mountains torms the small isolated Rocky Range, 5 miles
northwest ot the town ot Kl1ford. The Mineral Hountains form an
equally prominent north-trending range on the east side of the
Hilford Valley and sep~rat8 It from the valley in which the town
of Beaver is located.
./

?he roCks ot the area cone~st of sedimentary formations, lava

flows, and intrusives. Butler §/ has given an extensive and
thorough desoription of these rocks, and only a ~rief ~ry of
their charaoteristics ~ill be presented here, emphasia being
placed on the types that are direotly related to the tungsten
deposits.

RI BUiler, B. S.; op. oli •• (1913).

 TUNGSTEN DEPOS ITS, BEAVER COUNTY, UTAH
85

Sed1menta~ rocks .--The follow ing table

,
repor t, 8umma~ze8 the seque nce of sedim entarytaken from· Butle r's
r.ocks
triot . The most tmpo~tant members of the seque nce arein thB dis-
Gramp ian limes tone, 1n which the 80bee lite of the the
San Franc isco
Moun tains occur s, and the Harri ngton forma tion anti.
.El~pbant
limes tone, ~hlch conta in the 8chee llte 1n the Rooky the
Range
Range , and Hiner al Range . It 18 pos'sib le that 80me , star
occur at other depos its
strati graph ic horizo ns which could not be defi-
nitely determ ined:
.
Sedim entary forma tions 1n the San Franc isco and adjac
ent mlnfn g
d1str icts: Ut'a h. Af'ter Butle r •

in teet ••• Name and de8orlptlo~ Age

5,OOOf Harrl !fton forma tion. Thin-b edded Trias s ic
aha 8S with interb edded lime-
- stone s and lens8 s of quart zite. -
1,000 ± Kle~ant llme"stone . .Heavy -bedde d P8rm~ylvanian
~o~ltIc and sIlice ous llme-
stone . G

e
400 Tali~ guart zite.
pirik quart zIte.
Fine- grain ed ....
.•
----(?)---
1,500 TOElCh8 limestone~ Heavy -bedde d
ue lLnes tone with beds of
shale and chert .
Hi8Si ssl;pp ian ( ?)
- l'"
-
50 Howl1Jza shale . Calca reous shale Devon ian
, iriter stratI ried with thin beds
or limes tone.
1,500 Red Warri or 1imes tone. Heavy -
bedde d blue and gray limest Qne, - - - -(?)- - - -
in part dolom itic; lens8 s or
quart zite near cbase.
2;500 ± Moreh ouse 'Ikk~artzite. Pine- Silur ian (T)
grain ed p sh quart zite con-
tainin g some tine -silic eous
shale . This quart zite in the
Star distr ict is believ ed to
be repre sente d, at least in
part, in the ~pper portio n of
the Horeh ouse quart zite or the
Prisc o distr ict.
- __ ~_(T) ____
2,O~O± ~orebou8. auart z1te. Plne- grain ed
pirik and!WfiiEe quart zite with -
some shale beds.
300 Shale in upper Gramp ian. Ordov ician
-
4,000 Gr~ian limes tone . Heavy -bedde d ,
ue and gray iIme stone , in part
dolom 1t1c, lfith limy shale at
the top.
- 1>'1
C8JXl r an ? -1'1- - --
-
lfieou s.. 1'0 cks. "":'The igneo us rocks of the Beave r Count y
area
,.
campr~8 rhyol ite turr, lavas that range in compo8~tion trom
rhyol ite throug h andes ite to basal t, and intru ~1ve grani te,
86 STRATEGIC nINERALS INVESTIGATIONS, 1944

9uartz monzonite, and granodiorite porphyry. The effusive rocks

are at leas t in part older than the Intrus 1 ves, for in a number
of places the quartz monzonite has intruded and crosscut them.
They have no relation to the Bcheellte depo8~t8, although many of
the copper, lead, zinc, and silver deposits of the distrlcts
occur in brecciated voloanic yoeks o
The main mineralized areas in , the San Francisco, Star, and
Beaver Ranges are associated wi th stocks of granodlorlte porphyry
and quartz monzonite and with dikes attendant upon these stocks .
In the Mineral Mountains the main Int~81ve r ocks are more nearly
true granites. The granodiorite porphyry ~ppear8 to be the old-
Bst of the intrusives. Butler describes it BS a dark, flne-
grained porphyritic rock of dioritic appearance, whose charaoter
varies considerably fr om place to "place, the phenocrysts being
few in some places and numerous in others . Phenocrysts of
plag1oclase, hornblende, and occasionally quartz are usually the
only minera~s recognizable in hand specimens. Variation in the
proportion of mafic minerals causes much variation in the color
of the rock, which ranges from a light gray through "gray and
gray-green to a very dark gray. The granodiorite occurs only in
the eastern part of the area described by Butler and is most
abundant in t he Rocky Range and in the nearby knolls and hills
that project above the surrounding alluvial plain.
The quartz monzonite is much more widely distributed than
the granodiorite porphyry. One large body of the rock occupies
an area of about st square miles in the San Francisco Range , "
northwest of Frisco . There are two stocks" in the Beaver Lake
Hountains, having a combined area of about 4 square miles, and
smaller masses occur in the Rocky and Star Ranges. "Q uartz monzo-
nite and granite form the core of the Mineral Mountains and ex-
tend from the vicinity of Adamsville northward for more than 15
miles. Numerous dikes of related composition are associated with
this mass.
The rock mapped as quartz monzonite ranges in oomposition
from quartz diorite to granite, but the largest part of ea ch of
the masses thus mapped has the composition of quartz monzonite.
The fresh rock is medium-grained and gray in color, and is com-
posed of plagioclase, orthoclase, quartz, biotite, augite, and
hornblende. The proportions of the minerals vary considerably,
depending on the position of the rock with respect "to the con-
t~ct. In places, though not everywhere, the r ock becomes finer-
grained and more porphyritic toward the margins of the stock.
The dark minerals are commonly more abundant at the contact than
elsewhere, and dikes that extend for short distances from the
contact into the sedimentary rocks are " darker and finer-grained
than the stocks. Hornblende, which is abundant in the central
part of the San Francisco Mountains stock, is very scarce in the
border zone, where biotite and augite are abundant. .
The geologic a ge of th~ igneous rocks cannot be definitely
determined from relations observable/ in this area. On the basis
of comparison with surrounding areas, Butler concluded that the
igneous rocks of "these distri~ts "a re Tertiary in age, but he was
unable to date them more precisely.

Structure

The region here des cribed, located as it is near the eastern

border of the Basin and Range strUctural province, is character-
ized by fault-block mountains. The San Francisco Range and the
 TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS, BEAVER COUIITY, UTAlI- 67

Mineral Hountains are known to be such blocks. The Beaver Lake

Mountains and the Star Range may also be fault 'Blocks, but they
have undergone erosion so profound 8S to destroy any striking
evidence of' such an origin. .
There was little pre-intrusion folding, and much of the
locally complex structure around the plutonic igneous rock bodl'ea
1s probably related to their intrusion. Strong evidence of Buch
a relation 1s shown by the accommodation of the bedding to the
contacts in the Prisco area, and by the faot that muoh breccia-
tion and fracturing wae developed in the 8ed~entary r~c~8 near
the border of the. intrusive before any intense contact metamor-
phism had occurred.
Faulting has not only outlined t~e prinoipal mountain ranges
but has also localized tmportant sulfide mineralizat~on. The
relation of faultlng to tungsten mineralization is not clear, but
apparently it is not close. Large faults extending parallel to
the trend of the San Francisco Mountains occur on the east and
west sides of the range, and several large transverse faults in
the Star Range produce notable offsets in the strata. ' A large '
fault is ' probably present also along the wsst face of the Mineral
Mountains. Local areas of complex faultihg and folding are num-
erous but are on too small a scal"e for discussion here.

TUNGSTBlI DEPOSITS

The tungsten deposits of Beaver County occur in a number of

separate and widely scattered localities. Nearly all of the
deposits are in tactite formed at or near the contacts of Itme~
stone and intrusive rocks. The principal areas of localiz-atlon
are around the south end of the San Francisco Mountains stock, in
the Rocky Range, and on the eastern and ' sou~hern borders of the
Mineral Range stock. Minor deposits occur in other areas. The
geologic relationships are slightly different for each area., and
the deposits will therefore be discussed separa~ely.

Cupric Mines Co. tunBsten deposit

The tungsten deposit of the Cupri-c l1ines Co. is on the west

side of the San Franoisco Mountains at the southern contact of
the main quartz monzonite stock of those mountains with the sedi-
mentary rocks. ~tate Highway 21, which exteriqs through Squaw
Springs Pass, ' lies within a ~ile and a half of the deposit, and a
side road, built in 1943, connects the highway with it.
The San Francisco Mountains near this locality reach an alti-
tude ' of 8,200 feet, having a relief of about 2,500 feet. The-
tungsten deposits occur on the lower slopes of the mountains at
altitudes between 6,200 feet and_ 6,700 feet-. They are scattered
throu gh a zone of contact-metamorphic rock pro?uced by the intru-
sion of a large quartz monzonite stock into limestone. The
scheelite was discovered in 1941 on almost entipely undeveloped'
and unexplored parts of the Cuprio property. Following the pre-
liminary geologic -work by the Geological Survey in 1941, th~
property was examined and explored by a number of private compa-
~ie8 and other government agencies. Early in 1942 the U. S.
Vanadium Corporation trenched the surface "and did a small amount
of drilli.n g. The Homestake Mining Co. briefly examined- the prop-
erty shor~y the~eafter. Neither of these exam~nations led to
88 STRATEGIC HINERALS INVESTIGATIONS, 1944

turther work by these companies. The prospect was explored ~

ther in the winter or 1942-43 by the Bureau ot Hines and the
Desert Sllver Mining Co. tor Metals Reserve Co. The Desert S11-
ver Hining Co. drove an adlt into the south side of the deposit
at the same t~e that the Bureau of Hines drove an adlt under
the ore zone from the west. Plate 33 shows the local g8010gy and
the ·extent of the deposits; plate 34, the main ore body and the
extent of the exploration work.

Geology

. limestones invaded by the stock in

the.- t of two distinct members. The thick-
er tbe tungsten deposita, oocupies the
eastern of the limestone area mapped. It consists
of rather heavy-bedded limestone, mostly of a dark olue-gray
color but including some lighter-colored layers. The unaltered
rock is ·composed of beds a foot or more thick. Some of the ,meta-
morphosed ltmestone, however, is well banded in half-inch to one-
inch layers that probably differ slight17 in composition.
Stratigraphically above the · gray limestone is a oonsiderable
th1ckness of a white or light-buft, very mass1ve, relatively pure
limestone. This rock is much less affected by contact metamor-
phism than the underlying rock', being replaced by siU.cates only
along a narrow zone at the contact, beyond which the ·rock 1s un-
replaced but is recrystallized for a considerable distance.
Igneous rocks .-The igneous rock adjac,ent to the contact in
the Cupric area differs slightly from the average rock ot the
stock as described by Butler, being lower in quartz and ampbi- .
bole. The essential minerals are orthoclase, plagioclase,
augite, biotite, and a litt~e quartz, together with som& apatite,
spbene, and magnetite. Quartz forms less than 5 percent ot the
rock, which is nearer to monzonite in composition than to any
other type.
Structure . --At a distance of about half a mile from the con-
tact ~e limestones strike N. 10° to ' 40o B. and dip 30° to 60°
tIoJ. This attitude is general in the area; but the intrusion of
the quartz monzonite has 'distorted the' rocks near the contact,
where the bedding is steepened and twisted and appears locally to
be overturned. The beds tend to swing par~llel to the contact,
and on the southeastern side of the stock the original strike haS !
thus been shifted from north t o northeasterly. Strong zones of
brecciation tn this vicinity attest the folding and'break1ng of
the beds by intrusive action. On the southwest side of the
stock, however, the beds strike more directly into the igneous
contact. This fact may have a strong bearing on the.localization
of the sc~eelite, for practically all the scheelite occurs in ,r"
this zone where the limestone beds are perpendicular to the
quartz monzonite contact. .
'Several zones, '10 to 20 feet wide, of iron-stained rock . in
the limestone at distances of 300 to 400 feet from the contaot,
represent mineralized fissures that probably were formed during •
·the s~ period of mineralization as the scheelite. The old
Washington mine, which supplied some lead, copper, and zinc, w8's '
developed on one of these fissures. The alinement of some of •
these ~ones suggests the presence of fairly persistont northea~t­
striking "f'iS8ures. The strike of these fissures is generally
parallel to the oontact, but no one of them oan be traced for any
 TUIroSTlIII DEPOSITS, BEAVER COUH'l'Y, UTAli 89
.,
great d1stanoe on tbe surfaoe. sOme smaller fJ:ssurea, more near-
.1y perpendicular to the oontact, may have 1nfluf!!nced the 10ca11:- .
cation of the Bcheellte by attordlng "channelwaya for mineralizing
solutions.

~~1i~~~~;;~;;~~ intrusion ot tbe quartz monzonite

i produced extensive coutact metamor-
phlem, espeoially in the dark mem.bers ot the' limestone serIes. '.'
In the Cupric area this metamorphism extends for more than a
quarter of a mile on the surrace from t he contact, but the dis-
tance from the outer edge ot the m~tamorpb1c zons at the surface
to the nearest quartz monzonite beneath the surface 1s probably
much 18S8 than a quarter of a mile. The monzonite contact Is'
very irregular; ~lth numerous offshoots, apophyses, and amb4Y-
mente. The dip ot the contact, where directly observod, is
always very steep, but the small isolated monzonite masses pro-~
, jecting through the metamorphosed limestone at diatances ot 300
to 500 feet from the main contact are probably projectIons rising
trom the main mass bel~, and they indicate that the average dip
of the contact ie much lower than that at 1ndiv~dual ezpoeures.
Hany minerals have be~n developed in th~ contact zono. The
most abundant are garnet, wollastonite, diop~lde, quartz, and
oarbonates. Less abundant are Dmscovite, chlorite, epidote,
fluorite . idoO'rase, sch0gelite, and the sulfides pyrite, oh.alco~
pyrite, and molypdenlte. Veina in the limestone, at . some dis-
tance from the contact, contain galena and sphalerite.
The intensity of the contact metamorphism and the character
of its products are variable throughout the area. In general,
the effects of metamorphism decrease gradually awat from the con-
tact; sll1cated contact rocks grade into recrystallized lime-
stone, which grades into unchanged limestone. But in sOme. small
areas far from the outcrop of any intrusive contact, the Itme- _
atone is more intensely metamorphosed than moat' of that ~edl­
ately adjacent to exposed intrusive rock. These ar09as are prob-
ably at places where 1nterse~tlng fis8ures 8..l10we<\ free aoceas to
metasomatlzing solutions, or where small igneous' offshoots were
oloae to the surface, or where both condit10ns exis.ted.
It is impossible to trace individual groups ot limestone becia
trom places "heJ'e tkey are unaltered into the cont·a~t-Metamorph'.c
zone, and thus to detemlne in what degree the varied ' composition
of the contact rocks is due to differences in original character-
istics of the limestones. The general distribution of minerals
and the general structure suggest, however, that original d.1ffer-
ences of composit1on and porosl,.ty or'e reflected in the "Contaot
zones to a rather ~arge extent.
The most ab~dant and widespread of the mlnerala in the con-
tact ~ock - is a garnet of thQ andradlte-grossularite variety.
Large volumes of the limestone have been altere4 ·to ' a garnet- .
carbonnte rock, and the garnet is always more ~~undant upon
closer approach to the oontact. Wollastonite is very abundant in
many parts of the contact zone, in some places. forminer drY!3tals
6 inches or more in length. It is partioularly abundant on tae
hill crest extending due sou th from the contact .in the center ot
the area mapped (pl. 33). Other minerals are locally abundant,
but the greater part of the contact rock in most of the area 1.
composed of garnet, wol'laatonite, and ,recr:,rstallized resid:ual
carbonate. \
Occurrence of Bcheel1te.-The 8chee11te 1n the depo.sit is
neariy ail In the garnet rock, or ~ct1te. On the CUpric

.~'
•

90 STRATEGIC IIINERALS IlrvESTIGATIOIIS. 1944

property, SP~Ok8 of Bcheellte are sca ttered widely throughout the

metamorphi c rocks, b ut the significant concentrations of the min-
eral are l ocalized in three main bodie s and several minor ones.
The larg~8t ot' these, designated on plate 33 as the "A" ors ' body,
straddles t h e nose of a ridge at the contact of the light and the
dark limestone near ~he southwest side of the area mapped . The
areal extent ot the tungsten ~1nerallzat l on here 1& about 100,000
square feet. The "B" ore body, whlch Is sscond in importance, Is
about 700 feet northeast ot the first, against the contact in the
reentrant on the "north side of a prong ot quartz monzonite. The
third, or "e" ore body, is Bouth of the "B," on the south slde of
the monzonite prong,· and is also ti ght against tl1e contact. Of
the two minor are bodies, one occurs on the nose of the prominent
ridge 500 f'eet sou t heas t of' · the "A" are body, the other on the
northeast flank of this same nose, s ome 800 feet f'arther north-
ea1!t.
The general mode of' occurrence of' the scheelite is the same
throu ghout the district . The mineral occurs most f'requently as
i~olated grains or small clnsters of grains in plaoes where gar-
net is abundant . The stippled areas .on the lnap (pl. 33) repre ...
sent scheelite-bearing rock. Some of' th~scheelite is in the
f'orm of' l~rg e euhedral crystals as much as 2 inches in diameter,
but t he re are all gradations of' size between such crystals and
specks barely visible to the unaided eye. In any given area, the
amount of scheelite i n these almost invisible specks appears to
be nearly as grea t as tl~t in the l arger grains, even though the
latter are more widel,- spaced . Not a ll of' the lntensely garnet-
ized rock contains schee llte, nor Is all the scheelite associated
with the gar net . ..
Host of' the scheelite in the Cupric depOsit f'luoresces with a
cream-white or slightly yellowish color, which Is distinct f'~om
. the ·blue-white color given by scheelite f'rom many other locali-
ties; this yellowish color. indicates that the Dineral contains a
good deal of molybdenum. The f'luorescence col or of the mineral
varies considerably, however, and the molybdenum content must
likewise be variable. The color varies. i ndeed, not only from
place to pl Rc e but also within single crystals, some of' which
fluoresce blue-white at the cen ter and yellowish at the border.
Two high-grade samples of scheelite were collected from the
Bureau of' Hines adit and were assayed in the O.e ological Survey
laboratory for contained W0 and H00 • The results are given in
the f ollowing table: 3 3
Weight Weight Weight percent
Sample percent percent CalloO, in
1100. WQ, Bcheellte molecule
No. 1. High-grade material 0 .28 19.83 1.56
selected from zone between
136 and 170 feet from por-
tal.
No.2. High-grade material . 38 5 .54 7.13 -- '
selected f'rom zone between
240 and 258 feet from por-
ta·l.
The , ore bodies ar e irregu l ar in outline with ill-defined
boundari es where they grade into barren r ock. Their limits as
shown on the maps are merely rough outlines of ar eas wi thin which
the principal a cheelite mineralization is .concentrated. Sparsely
scattered 8cheelite can be found outside theae boundaries.
 'l'UJ108TEN DEPOSITS, BEAVER COUNi'Y, UTAH -91

An understanding of the conditions favoring the deposition of

sche'elite should be very help.t'ul in the search Cor ore. Three '
conditions appear to be propitious; the first Is " the prox1mlty
of an igneous contact; the second Is some favorable element, not
fully understood, In the original character of the limestone; and
the third is fracturing or breccia,tion of the hos~ rock.
The most 1cportant of t h e three Is evidently the relation of
the ore to Intnlslve contacts . This Is true not only of the .
Beaver County deposits but of many similar deposits at other
localities. But although the contact tlus .t be relativel,. near,
the chance ot finding schee llte Is not In direct ratio to ' its
n earness.
-
Variati on in t he original composition of the limestones and
.
their permeability to mineralizing solutions mnke some beds More
s usceptible to alteration than others. ' The great influence that
may be exerted by the ·orig inal character of the limestone is .
illustrated on a larC;e scale by the absence of' s cheelite in the
white limestone. Schee11te mineralization in /the gray ltmestone
ceases abruptly at conta c ts with the white 11l'lestone, and there
is little replacement of' the white limestone even where it is' in
1nmediate co ntact with igneous rocks. On a 8Daller scale, the
slight vsriations within the dark limestone are expressed, where
the rock is metamorphosed, by distinct laye ring, and these layers
evidently differ in their susceptibilit y to alteration. There lA
little evidence, however--such as would be gi v~n by loca~ ' uneven­
ness in the distribution of soheelite--thnt thes e minor differ-
ences i n the original character of the 11roestone beds have had
much influence on soheelite depo sition.
The third f actor, structural control, is of 5I'eat importance,
but its extent and in f l~en ce are not easily determinad. Just
ea s t ot the ma i n ·"A" are body are two elongate 1I1aS8eS of' garnet
ro ck t hat appear to b e localized along zone s of fiss u ring and
brecciation . These maoses, together with another , 800 feet far-
ther east. are Obviously connected with fiss u re zones.. Exposure,s
in the adits emphasize the intense brecciation, faulting, and
shearing of the r ock in the I:lineralized area. and. the int1rilate
rela tion of t h e scheelite to s uch broken zones . The struoture is
pest desorib e d as a complex of irregll iar breaks and shears in
which loca l zone s or area s of more intense brec ciation are -form-
ed, most cOlIU!lon ly nt inters ections of the fractures. Su ch areas
are more suscept ible to mineralizatio n, but exploration work has
8D.phasized t he f ac t t:lllt none of the favorahle s'\;rllo tur es .has
s u f f i-c ien t cont inn lty or e x t ont to l ocalize a larg.e body of ore.
Favorab l e structure, however, is not alone ~\fficlent to lo c~l ize
ore . To the east of the "A" oro body along the monzonite ' contact
there are broad zones of br ecc ia in strong l ,.- metamorphosed dark
).1roestone that are completely barren of scheelite, ,.e ven though
most of th,e me tamorphism was post-brecciation. It is thus difti- '
cult t o evaluate the effect of early brecciation on a re fOI"'llW.tlon
in the nA" are body, although it 'has undoubte dly exerted consid.-
erable influence . Some s hearinc , however, t ook place c onsider-
ab l :; l a t e r than the deposition of the sch eelite J for certain .
zones of s C~leel i te minera lizat lon. are c rosscut at s na ll angles
by sulfide vein s d eposite d i n t he f'iSS'..lr8S fO:rr.led by this later
shea r ing .
Ore bodles liB" and "e" (pI. 33) are goou"' exn."iI.p l es of depos'lts
f.'ormed at the" l£71eou s contact. The cOlit.act r ock c ouprl sing t1-1~
liB" botly f orms a mere ski n on . th.e monzonl te , and ver y. small dikes
of monzonite, hardly llotlce nblc e xcept on close examtnation, ex-
t end , t h r ough much of the garnet r ock . Ore body lie" is lIkewise.
92 STRATEGIC MIIlERIiLs IlIVESTIGATIONS, 19H

clos8 to a contact, and here too the scheellte-bearlng metamor-

phic rock 1s penetrated by small tongues and offshoots of monzon-
ite. '
The "An ore body, on the other hand, which 1s larger than the
"Bit and ne" ore bodies, appears, to 11e away from the contact.
Its position was probably determined by a combination of the
three favorable conditions already ment1oned, but structure prob-
ably has bad a dominant - influence on the localization of the
Bcheellte bere. However, the contact-M.etamorphic rock comprising
the "A" body 1s probably much nearer the .actual con tact than ap-
pears on the suri'ace. A long dike of quartz Monzon! te extends .
westward f'rom the ma-in mass toward the head of the ItA" body, eBst
of which, moreover, there a:pe several staail eroppin,es of quartz
monzonite on the hillside; and within the ore body itself there
is a mass of greisenized material rather rich in scheelite. All
of these facts indicate that the igneous ma~s, or small offshoots
from it, are no t far below the ore, although no monzonite was
found in the adits drlven beneath the ore body.

Distribution. grade. and volume- of ore

The Cupric deposit was explored extensively during the perio~

between its discovery in 1941 and the spring ' of 1943. All of the
explorati,o n work wa s done on the "A" ore 'b ody, the 'most promising
area, and has demonstrated that the dlst'\"ibution of scheelite is
very irregular and erratiC, and tlwt the deposit as a whole is of
too low grade tQ be mined under the economic condit iQns prevalent
in 1943.

Preltminary determinations of the d:!.st~ibution and vollooe of

are, made in the fall of 1941, were based on an examination of
the surface of the area with an ultraviolet lamp along equally
spaced traverse lines. By this method about 11,500 square feet
of the 112,000 square feet of surface area of· the "An OI:e body
were outlined as underlain by potential ore with a grade of 0.5
percent W03 or better. These areas are shown in plate 33. Sub-
~equent trenohing of the deposit disclosed t he scbeelite d1stri-
bution to be even more erratic and discontinuous than was indi-
'cated from surface exposures (pl. 34). The adits driven by the
Bureau of Mines and the ~esert Silver Mining Co. beneath the best
surface ind:lcations of the ore have further emphasized the. spotty
nature and low 'grade of the deposit. Indeed, the mineralized
material exposed in the ad it~ is much inferior both as to grade
and volUItle to that exposed on the surface.
The brade of tfie deposit has been established by means of
extensive sampling of the adtts by the Bureau of Hines at the
time the adits were being driven. Cha~nel samples and muck-pile
samples were coll~cted aa well as b.ulk samples for mill tests.
The muck-pile samples and the bulk samples are the most accuratl1',
the erratic character of the minerallzat~on making channel or
grab samples nearly worthl~ss for e3ta~lishing an average grade.
Only a few very llraited zones in the workings contain sufficient
t~~3ten to be listed as possible ore zones. The following table
gives the detailed assays for the best zone I] encountered. The
location of these zones is ShoVl!1 on t he adit m.aps, plate 35.
, ,
It 1s apparent from the assays that very little if any of the
rock oan be considered ore under present econoalc - conditions.
Furthermore, the deClonstrated erratic and pockety nature of .t he
tungsten mineralization makes the determlnatlon or blocking out
 TU!I.aBrElI DKPOSIrS, BEAVER COUNTY, U'l'Al! 93 '

hble 5.-8ample data tl"9m the Bureau of JUnes -adit oz:1 the CuprIc ,
lIine. Co . property.y •

\
Sample , ' ,~eanon IJAng:n ,
(teet trom portal) sampled (teet)
0,' Yereent ,
. WO
a \
Muck-pile samples 0-147 147 0-0.10
, 14"-~7"
tg
5.5
.~~
,.12
.15
28 4.0 .17'
4.0 .:58 -
4.0 .09
3.5 ' .09
, Av •• 175
,
•
176-253 78 q-O.l0
253-200
I~:~
13
3.0 - :tg
12J.
, AY •• 21
Drift north trom
main adlt between
253 and 286 teet.
9
I
to
4. 0
3.0
.3'6
.20
.16
Av •• 22
Drift south trom 4.0 . 09
main adit between 4.0 .06
253 and 2£6 reet. 21.5 3.0 .14
3.0 .14
3.5 .ll
, 4.0 .17
,
,
Av •• 12
4'3 .5 Av •• 168
Sample mined on
south 81de of
main dritt tor
mill test ,
150-163 76 mine
loads ore.
0&1'"-
....-
Av. ,;from
pIss
0.33
'llill-run
, testa
· 0.21
11 All ...ph data end tu.na:.ten anely••• traa the Bureeu or KinIM,
United State. Depertaent ot the Interior.

or the ore reaerves very difficult. The poc~et8 01' ore are dis- '
continuous and follow no detlnl te structural patts'I'rl, and the
, character 01' ore more than a few teet beyond t he present faces 1s
unpredictable. Por these reasons it is nearly impossible to out-
,- line any measured or indicated ore, and only about 4,000 tons of
1nterred ore oontaining about 0.3 percent W03 is estimated to be
available.
Ho other ore body oh the property has been explored as thQr-
oughly 8S the "A," and none has shown more than a traction , ot the ,~ .'
original promia,e ot the "A" ore body. The riB" deposit 18 low in
grade and obviously clo.~ to the contaot. Its downward extent 1s
undeter.mined. A tunnel that penetrates the hillside just below ,
the tow~r contact of this ore body discloses no 8chaellte, a~d
, the robk in the tunnel is less metamorphosed than ,that on the
NHUO-tII-3
 94 STIIATBOIO l'lIlIIIRALS IJIVISTlGATIOllll, 1944

Table 6.--Sample ,data tram th~ Metals Reserve 00. a41t on the
CUprlo KIne. 00. property.!!

Sample Looation Length or drIft Peroent

(f.et from portal) sampled (test) WO:s
Huck-pile samples 0-54 54 <0;10
54-97 9.0 .:Sl
. 2.0 ,
3.0 I
.23 ·
.21
4.0 .14
:s.0 . OS
. 6.0 .18,
, 411 4.0 1.0li
2.0 .58
;5.5 .17
:S.5 .41..
:s.0 ~31
Av • 0.325 ..
.
97-152 55 < .10
•
, Sample mined trom 80 57 mine car- Av. 0.35
main and side loads ore.
drIft. tor mIll
test.
1:1 All semple data end tunceten . .17S.. tro. tbe 8ureau or IIlBd,
Oolt.4 St.t •• ~B\ of the Interior.
Burface above it. It 18 entirely possible that the ·"B" ore body
18 in a block of the lower gray limestone re.tlng with faulted
oontact upon the ?!Illite limestone, and thaif the quant1ty of tao ...
tlte bere 1s limited by the size of this block.
The "Oft ' ore body contains scattered 8cheellte but only a
8~11 quantity of material which may be considered as interred ·
ore. The rook riohest in schee11te 1s adjacent to Bome small
aplitic dikes at the lower end ot the mineralized area. This
material 1s ltmited in amount and 1s rather intimately m1xed with
the igneous rock.
, Other areas co~tain scheelite, but all of, it - is rather widely
~sseminated. ' Unless fUrther exploration finds material of high-
er acheelite content, these smaller bodies carmot be ,c olUidered ;'
aa probable sourQes of ore.

Old Hickory mine

/-"
The Old Hickory mine is o~ a southern spur of the Rocky " :-1'
Range, about 5 miles northwest of Milford (pl. 32). This spur \
consists of a ,group of low hills, the highest" of which rises only \
300 feet above the alluvial plain, and the mine 11es -just south
of a low saddle which nearly separa tea these hills, from the main
" body of the range. The mine 1s reached by good roads from "the
town Sind consequently l).as easy acceSB to both main highways and
railroads'.
"The Old Hickory mine, though long known to contain a body Dr
copper-magnetite ore, was never extensively worked except, in
 TUII06TB11 DI!POSrrS, BEAVER COmrn:, ,ll'lAB ,95

"
1906-07, when the high price of- copper made ' it oOlllllerclall-7 prot- '
"1 table to mine the ore for copper. In 1917-1e, when 't he mln~ Wfl. '
again worked, it was only because the magnetite " in the ore was , .
,: needed as a flux at t he smelters. .
: The old mine consisted of a shaft 300 feet de"p,· a t'\lonel,
l oalled the seoond level, which cuts tile ore body about 100 t'eet
Ibelow the shaft collar, and four other levels,' the first or
iso-root level about 20 feet above the tunnel, and the third, ~
Jrourth, and flfth levels below the tunnel at depths of 150, 200, '
:and 300 teet' .respeot1vely. Host of the ore above the eO-foot ,
l~vel has been stoped out to tbe surface, .l eaving a deep, ' lons,
.glory hole. The original timbering was bu rned out ot ,th~ m1ne ~
and completely de'stroyed, but the ahaft and th, "'orki~a immedi-
ately adjacent to it were retlmbered and placed in good working ' . ".'
order by O. H, Segerstrom in 1941 in preparation tor ~1n1ng , the
newly discovered tungsten ore. The mine was worked by Mr. Seger-
strom fo'r , tung.ten from the fall ot 1941 to'Deoember 1943, when
the operation waa 'closed and the mine was turneb. back tod!:. J.
Schoo, the former 'owner. " ,

, Gool081
,
The Old Hickorr mine 11es in a belt of ~ias8ic ~ocka at A
place where theY , are rather complexly intruded by stocks and
dikes bf quartz monzonite . , Plate 36 shows the topography and,
geology in the vic1n1ty of the' m1ne, The TriaasiQ rocks, whioh
belong to the Harrimgtan formation " are composed o'f thin-bedded
shales with beds of l~estone and lenses of quartz1te. The ooh-
tact-met~orphic rocks around the intrusive bodies include o~e
zone that is composed largely of magnet1 te, 'and it 1s in thia
zone that the best scheelite ore has been found . .. In the vicini ... ·
ty of the Old Hickory, the rocks strike nearly north-south,
directly toward the main masses of 1ntrusive quartz monzonite and
.granodiorite porphyr.y, which lie ab out 1,100 feet north of the
shaft. Surface exposures close to the mine workings are , poor,
but small scattered outcrops of quartz monzonite and abundant
exposures of it in the mine indicate that the scheelite occurs
close to igneous contacts .
SedimentarY rocks.--At the mine the lithologic sequence 'from
west to east In the BarringtOn fOJ;,'!ll8.tio n 1s as t-al,lowSI a mae- ,
sive layer ot quartzite, variable in thiCkness, on the west s1~e,
is followed by the ore body, which is in a completely replaced
limestone layer, probably mo~e 8usceptible to 'alteretlon beoause
, of original impurities and porosity, and now camposed chi~tly, ot
magnetite accompanied by 80me s11Ic~t-e, sulfIde , and schee,l ".. te.
To the east of the ore body the rocks are thoroughly metamorpbos -
ed, but it is inferred fro~ their present composition that they
originally consi8ted or impure shaly Itmestones and calcareoue
shales with lenses of quartzite and pure limestone • . A fe" . Idikes
ot granodtorite porphyry: are Intrud~d parallel to t~e bedding.
J This series of altered sedimentary rocks displayed near th,
mine and shaft may be , traoed southward tor at least 1,500 ree~
along the str1ke, despite considerable variations 1n ~he inten-
sity of the metamorphism, whicb depends o~ the v&ry1.ng relation
. of the sedimentary to the 19neous rocks. The zone containing ,
magnetite and scheID:lite extends for only apout 500, feet sdu,t b o~
the ahatt. Be70nd the shaft, there is garnet rock with 9nl1
sparee and scattered sho"ings of scheelite •

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Igneous rocks.--The igneous rocks in and nea~ the Old Hickory

mine are quartz monzonite and granod1or'1 to porphyry. The quartz
monzonite 8eems to be more abundant and to be more -closely relat-
ed t o the are deposit than the porphyry, and, in both its 0081'88-
. and fIne-grained phases, it f orms dikes, sIlls, and small irregu-
lar intrusive masses In the ltmestona. The general character ot
the igneous r o ck indicates that the sedimentary rot)k.8 at the Old
Hickory probably constitute a large root pendant In- the quartg
monzonite. -
sedimentary strata in general stand nearly
nearly north, with little variation in dip or
strike. Tho principal structure complications are dUB to tae
irregular intrusion of the igneous rocks, which rollow the bed-
ding planes or the sedimentary rocks ror the moat part but rre-
quently cut across them as rather gently &ipping dikes or as
irregular Masses.
One dike, stri~ing nearly east and dipping gently to the
south, separates the sedimentary rocks, including the ore body,
into two segments. The upper segment is displaced, relative to
the lower, about 50 or 60 reet to the east as is shown in the
structure sections' (pl. 37). The measure or the displacement is
based entirely upon the orrest produced in the magnetite zons and
the vertical igneous contact west or the ore body. This offset
may have been caused by a fault along whic~ the dike was ~ater
intruded, or by movement along the dike either before or after it
solidtfied. Possibly the ofrset is no t due to faulting at all
but marks a jog in a zone of alteration 'formed along art irregular
igneoua contact, · at the place where the hO,l'izontal dike was by
chance in'jected. Paulting, however, seems the most probable
CQuse or the offset"for in one place the quartzite, the one mem- ,
ber of the series that can be identified both above and below the
dike, is apparently "displaced. Other faults are of minor impor-
tance in the ~edlate vicinity of the mine, whore post-mineral
movement, although it has produced gouse alon'g some rjf the con'-
tacts of the ore body. has nowhere significantly offset the con- '
tacts.

Ore deposit

Hineralo~Y.--The scheelite of the Old Hickory mine occurs in

a qontac€-me amorphic deposit produced by the intrusion of quartz
monzonite into calcareous sediments. The ore appears to be
localized principally in one or more beds of limestone that are
especially susceptible to replacement. The main deposit is in an
elongate tabular body. 15 to 25 feet wide, consisting chiefly of ,
magnetite and silicates, the most abundant ,or whic~ are garnet
and diopside. Gradual cha~es of composItion may be observed ,not
only in crossing the strike but also along it, and ' in many places
the deposit is made up of thin layers evidently dirfering in .cam- \
positiort. The proportion of magnetite to silicates vari~s widely .
--from about 90 percent ma~etite and 10 perc,nt silicates to 90
percent silicates and ).0 percent magnet1,te • . Hinor const1 tuents
of the depos1t are tho sul!ldes pyrite, chalcopyrite, and bornite,
, some secondary copper minerals, and scheelite. The scheellte i8 '
generally most abundant in rock that contains abundant magnetite, -
and such rock occurs ~inly at or very close to igneous ,contacts.
Host of the magnetite is localized in the 15- to 25~root ta~ular
zone adjoining the quartzite and monzonite on the. west, but scat-
tered grains of magnetite and scheelite are found in garnet-
diopside " rock 100 feet or more fro~ the contact.~ Still farther

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from the main contact oertain favorable layers are completely

altered to garnet-dlopslde-magnetlte rook oontaining little or no
scheellte, but most of the rest of the sedimentary ,aerios 1a only
recrystallIzed or sl1ghtly a~tered. -
The primary copper 8u~:flde8 are 80 sparsely scat,tared that
the rock containing them can have no value' &a an 'ore ot copper,
"but a small amount ot copper bas been obt ained from 80me rock
near the 'Burface" where copper oarbonate 1s concentrated in the
numerous frac turese
The 8cheellte in the magnetite-garnet rock occurs in two
forms. A tew 2- t~ 3-1nch veine ot nearly solid eOheellte in
large, translucent, greenish-gray ~ry8ta18 have been found at the
base of the open cut 50 teet Bouth of the main shatt, but tbese
veins are traceable for only 10 to 15 feet. Host ot the scheel-
ite occurs in small grains, or more commonly "in clusters of sma~l
grains, 0.5 to 1 inch long in the magnetite. Each cluster ap-
pears superficially to be a single large crystal, but cl08e e.xam.- '
ination reveals its composite dharacter. All gradations are
found between rock in which these clusters are widely scattered
and zones 10 to 15 feet long in which the clust"e rs are crcmded
together.
All of the scheelite in the Old Hickory mine, "like that 4n
the Cupric property , has a yellowish-white to y ellowish fluores-
" cence color, indicating that it contains a good deal of ca~cium
molybdate. 'l'b.e color varies con"s iderably from place to pla"ce",
and a8saY8 of the mineral are said to show that some of it eon-
tains only a few percent and some of it 20 or 30 percent ot ~l­
cium molybdate. Hone of the mineral in the Old Hickory mine haa
a blue-'ftb.ite fluorescence" color.
The minerals in the deposit are probably almos~ contemporane-
ous. In" some places magnetite and sulfides aut earlier gamet "
and diopside, and veins of scheelite cutting magnetite show that
some of it is later thaQ magnetite, although some 1s earlier or "
of t he same age. The whole sequence, however, 1s related to the
same period of igneous activ1ty.
At the Old !i1ckory m1ne , as at the Cupric mine, the 1laportblt
factors 1n localization of the scheelite and primary s~lf1de8 are •
country rock of favorable composition and the immediate pro~1ty
of the igneous intrusive contact. ,Practuring played a minor ,
part, although it prepared the ground for the depasition ot oxi-
dized copper ore near the. surf'ac8.
Ore shoots and limits of ore.~Scheelite is not only associ-
ated "Ith magnetIte', 8.8 already no~ed, but is conce~trated in
rather def'inite ore shoots wl"bhtn the rock rich In magnetite.
One of' these ore shoots, which extends from the 200"::foot to" the
"l50-toot level, lies beneath the 'low-dipping quartz mon&onite
dike already mentioned (p. 96), and extends along tbe Junction of
'the dike with tbe vertical contact 'of the monzonite body on the
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w"est. The contacts between the ore; shoot and the 19neO\1s rooks
are sharp. It is p08sible that the ore minerals "ere derived
directly froM the adjacent igneous Tock, but it 1s more Itkely
that the inverted trougn £ormed by ~be intrus1ve contacts ~lreot­
ed solutions trom below and thus copcentrated them in detinLte
shoots. I
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Other prom1nent shoots" have been found in the .iDe, "but mucp
of the scheelite 10 irregularly di.tribu,t ed through .the ~.t1t.
roCk. Small quantIties of scbeelita have been noted" 1n zones '
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98 ST1IATllGIC IIIIiBRALS IIIVBSTIGATIORII, 1944

east of' the main contaot deposit, but igneous rook baa &1"&18
been round, nearby When it was looked for.
Both the abundance of' igneou8 rock in ttJ,e m1ne and Ita 41.- -
trlbutlon atrongly suggest that the .edimentary rocks in whtob
the ore oocurs form a large root pendant in tho Igneous- rock.
This view is further 8ub8t~tlated by the tact that the abundanc.
of igneous rook in general increa8es wIth depth. It seem. like-
ly, indeed, that the sedimentary rooks and consequently the ore
deposit will ,b e completely cut out at no great distance below the
present 300-foot level of the mine.
Five hundred feet south of the shaft the strike of' tho sedi-
mentary rooks Bftings slightly to the east and a thick band of'
quartzite comos in on the Burrace between the limestone and the
igneous rock. This Is probably the reason ~or the scarcIty ot
magnetite in surface exposures to the south. Underground the
100-foot level extends along the strike ot some magnetIt~ lenaea,
associated with dike rocks, to a point 750 teet south at the
shatt, but scheelite is here very sparse' or entIrely lacking.

Production and reserves

Although a little of the garnet-diopside rook soutb of the

open cut oontain~ scheelite, all the ore that had been mined by
early 1944 'waa in rock that oontained at least 50 percent ot "
magnetite, so · the amount of indicated ore available ,depends
primarily upon the amount of magnetIte-rich rook in the JIline.
Not all of this rock , however, is ~cheelite are, and it 1s there-
fore necessary, in calculating reserves, to take account of the
distribution of 8cheelite within the magnetite rook.
The localization of the scheelite ore ' is controlled mainly by
~o factors, whose relative importance varies from place to
plaoe. The more important raotor is proximity to a contact. The
other ls oontrol of, the movements of the ore-bear1ng solutions by
impervious igneous rock. The low-angle dike already noted, tor
example, apparently has acted in at least one place to conoen-
trate solutions on its lower side. In general, however, the mag-
netite above the low-angle dike is more uniformly impregnated
with scbeelite than that below, wbere the scheelite is more spot-
ty. I

The structure sections and the longitudinal projection of the

ore body in plate 37 give a pioture of the extent and distribu-
tion ot the ore that i. helpful in calculating reserves. Tb~
zone rich in magneti te extends for several hundre,d feet north of
the shaft, but very little scheelite has been found In the old
mine workings that explore this part ot the zone and it is not
inoluded in the estimates or reserves.
The structure sections in plate 37 illustrate' the decrea~e to
thickness of the magnetite zone toward tbe south and show .that 1t
seems to be ore-bearing ror only a short distance in that direo-
tion. On the surface, very little scheelite-bearlng magnetite
was found beyond a point about 100 teet south of the open out,
and on the 10o-foot level the ore disappears almost direotly
beneath this polnt. The scheelite ore tends also Ito pinch out in ,
depth, and bela" the 300-foot level there is probably very lit,t le
ore. This is part~y beoause the magnetite body narrows downnard,
partly because the soheelite oontent ot the magnetIte rock d1m1n-
ishes dommard.
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Host of the pockets ot' bigher-grade ore "ere mined out by

December 1943, and mining was discontinued • . Between the rall ot
1941 and December 1943 the mine supplied 18>,000 tons ot rock 1'rom
which 6,800 tons ot ore containing 0.6 percent W03 wa& sorted.
'the average grade ot the rook removed :from the mme thua 18 0.2.26
percent \0103.
Host of the possible scheol1te ore in the mine Is contained
in a block ofmagne~lte-rlch contact rook rougnly 300 teet deep,
450 root long, and 6 to 30 teet wide. Pram its volume,' about
75,000 cubic yards, there must be subtracted the volume of in-
cluded igneous rock and that ot' t~e empty stopes, 8Sttmated at
51 , 000 cubic yards" The net volume 01' magnetite-rich rock wou1d
be 24,000 cubic yards, "hich at 7,210 pounds per cubic yard would
"elgb. approximately 86,500 tona. To this may be- added 20.000
tons at are calaulated from surface exposures beyond the Itmlta
of the underground "orklngs, making a total at 106,500 tons of
magne~lte-rlch rock In the deposit. It Is known from direct
observation that a large part at this material is barren. TAo
erratic distribution of the acheelite in the magnetite ~y be
regarded, by a liberal construction, as making all unexplored
parts of the magnetite body potential sources of ore, but there
is no reason to suppose that they will be any rioher on the aver-
age than the parts that have been mined. '
By December 1943, all of the better ore shoots had been mined
out and any ore left ~ the ground was eith&r of lower grade~ or
in as yet undiscovered are shoots. At· the beginning of opera-
tions in 1941, ore reserves at the Old Hickory mine "ere esti-
mated by the writer to be abou.t 15,000 tons ot measured and ·1ocl1-
cated are containing approximately 0.5 percent W03, and 43,000
tons of interred are containing 0.25 peroent W03- Aotual produc-
tion has amounted to 18,000 tons which averaged slightly under
0.25 percent W03. This production bas essentially removed all .ot
the are formerly classed as measured and indicated.
Hining activity in -1943 opened more of the mine for examina-
tion, permitted a more aocurate appraisal ot ore reserves, and
ahofted the distribution ot acheelite-bearing rook to be quite
restricted. Thus, it does not aeem probable that there are 4ny
large potential reserVes of ore in high-grade pockets or of large
tonnages of low-grade material:
It is esttmated that about 400 tons of ore ~ontain1ng tram
0.75 to 1.00 percent of W03 could be sorted trom soheelite-
bearing material lett in the mine. This amount of are 'is classed '
as indlcated aa much of it ls partly exposed by underground work-
ings. It ls possible that 'some undiscovered pockets at are, min-
able under conditions existing in 1944, are present, but there ls '
no basis on "bich to estimate the tonnage. About 5,000 tons of
rock containing approximately, 0.1 to 0.2 percent W03 may be in-
· terred. This is not ore, but could possibly be a source at small
.production under ~ergency conditions.

Copper Ranch mine

The Copper Ranch mine, 21 m11e8 northl'lest ot tile Old Hickory

mine, is connected by d1rt roads wlth the Old Hickory 1Iine and
ftlth State Hlghway No. 26 (pl. 32). Tb.e mine openings are- on the . .
south slde of a 10ft rounded knoll of bedrock Which projects tram
tbe alluvial plain. The ftOrk1nga conslat ot an- ~nclined , shatt
315 teet deep, 425 teet or drlfts branohing fram the 8hat~, a

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stope which 1s now filled, and throe ' small shafts immediately
south of the main shaft. Plate 38 shows a plan and longitudinal
section of the mine. ,The mine was originally worked tor copper,
and a small amoun~ of commercial copper ore was taken -from the
upper workings. Scheelite was not discovered in the mine until
1941.
Geology

The Copper Ranch mine, like the Old Hickory and Cupric minos,
-1s in a contact-metamorphic deposit formed where Itme8to~e8 have
been invaded by quartz monzonite and granodiorite porphyry.
Here, as at the other minos, pure massive ltmostone grades into
shaly and sandy limestone, and certain beds of the impure lime-
stone have been metamorphosed to fo~ garnet-dlopslde-magnetlte
rock; but the rocks here, unlike those at the other minos, con-
tain r~nts o~ biotite, which was once abundant 1n some layers
but has since been altered in large part to chlorite and talc or
some olosely related mineral. Mica-rioh layers are partioularly
abundant in the upper part of th& deposit, and the scheelite 1s
frequently associated with the mi~a. .
The granodiorite porphyry is abundantly exposed on the sur~
faoe of the hill, and the quartz monzonite is the ' predominant
igneous rock underground. The relations betneen ~he tfto types of
igneous rock at this deposit were not obse~ved ~t any place in
the mine.
The principal structural features of the deposit are the re-
sults of igneous intrusion and a small amount of faulting. ' The
limestone aeries strikes H. 75° W. and dips 25° to 35° HE.~ its _
attitude being fairly constant throughout the mine. The igneous
rocks are intruded into the limestones 8S silld and as dikes.
The main sill is in the upper part 01 the mine, and tWa main
dikes cut the limestones in the lower part of the shaft, with a
strike of N. 20° to 25° W., and a dip of 60° to 70° JlB~.
A series of steeply dipping faults, which strike northwest
and dip both to the northeast and to the southwest, cut both the
limestones and igneous rocks. Some of the faults foll~ the con-
tacts of the igneous bodies, but others cut across these oontacts
and offset them. The extent of this otfsetting could not be ao-
curately determined, but it is probably not very great.

Ore deposit

The mineralization in the mine 1s oontrolled both by the bed-

ding in the limestone and by the contact of tbe igneous rock with
the limestone. In the upper part of the mine (pl. 38) the dis-
tribution ot the drifts and stopes illustrates the dependence on
bedding. ~e material mined from these workings was all second.
ary copper carbonate ore, but scheelite bas been found to be
~ldely scattered through the adj$cent ground, mostly in one or
two rather well defined beds 2 to 3 feet in .t hickness. The
debris, also, which rills ·t he"large stopes east of and below the
upper section of the shaft might possibly contain enough scb.el-
ite to ~e oonsidered a low-grade ore. In the lower workings the
soheellte is more olosely associated witq the contaots of quartz
monzonite than w1th particular beds of limestone. It occurs only
in small pockets, which probably oontain altogeth~r only a small
quantity of the mineral. . .
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Here 8S elsewhere in the d1strict, the 8cheel1te fluoresces

with a marked yellowish oolor. This Is espeoially true In' the
upper part of the workings, Where the m1ne~al Is 80ft and in
large part powdery. All these characteristics suggest a high
mol-ybdsnUm. oontent. '

Reserves

Assays of materla~ from the pits in front of the ~ln shart

ar ~
probably hand-picked. Tbe distributio n or
reported to show 1 to 2 percent of WO , but tb1s material W81
the material In the
mine, together with its relat1vely higb molybdenum oonten~, would
probably reduce the average grade of any considerable amount of
the ore to 0.25 or 0.5 peroent W03* A,conservative estimate
would give about 2,200 tons of measured ore of this grade. On '
the basis of the exposures immediately s ou tb of the main shatt,
there i8 probably two to three time8 this amount of indicated
ore. Any plan to work such ore, however, must take into account
a high .and quite variabl"8 molybdenum cqntent which not only re-
duces the amount of W03 in the ore but also makes necessary the
separation 0$ these two components in preparing the flnal prOd-
'"\to t .

Copper King mine

The Copper King mine is a small scheelite-bearing property

. located approxtmately . . miles eouthwest ot- the Old HiCko~ mine,
and a short distanoe south of State Highway No. 21 (pl. ' 32)_
This property was leased ,by C. H. Segerstrom and was operated by
him on a small scale from, 1942 .t o 1944. Operations at the mine
are reported to have ceased in April 1944. The property is .
served by a good gravel road. The workings consist of a 93-toot
steeply inclined shaft and about 350 feet of drifts on the 30~,
65-, and 93-toot levels.

Geology

The mine is on the upper part of a gently sloping surfaoe,

well covered with slope wash, where rock outorops are poor.
Some trenches and pits have been dug to expose the bedrock, but
the surface geology is obscure. Altered limestones occur in the
vicinity of the shaft and quartz monzonite is exposed a short
distance to the east and west, but igneous rock was found in the ,
• underground workings only at the end of a 60-foot crosscut to .
the west from the shaft. The shaft and drifts are opened in a
series ot Itmestones and quartzites which strike N. 70· W., -and
dip 30· to 35° HE. The upper parts of the working. are in the
Itmestone and the lower parts are in quartzite. Part~ of the
limestones have been altered to a. garnet-magnet! te contact-m'e ta-
m9rphio rook containing soheelite.

Ore deposit

The tactite , containing the richest scheelite ~e appears ~

be formed by the alteration of one bed of limestone .. One stope
of ore, 30 feet wide by 35 feet long and about 6 feet t~ck, ftae
mined from this zone between the 30-root and 65-foo~ levels, but

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irregular pockets and stringers or ore -also occur stratigraphic-

ally below the stope area. The 93-toot level of the mine Is In
quartzite in which little or no 80heellte has been found. The
main ore zone, following the bedding of the limestone, appears to
dip gently to the north and has not been intersected in the low~
est workings. The distribution ot ' soheellte In this aone, how-
ever, Is not uniform and the presenoe of the zone Is no guarantee
ot the presenoe of' 8cheellte ore within it. The scheel1te con-"
taine an appreciable amount of molybdenum whiCh varies consider-
ably 1n amount from ~lace to plaoe.
The faulting observed in the workings probably affects the
distribution of the ore. The stope mentioned above Is terminated
on its east 81de by a prominent slip plane, but no evidence was
tound on which to base the age of this structure and its relat~on
to the age ot the mineralization.

Production and reserves

Much at the material removed during development work contain-

ed sutficient scheelite to make its recovery worth while. About
1,200 tons ot ore averaging .0.35 percent W03, and 1,100 tons
averaging about 0.72 percent W03 had been mined to Harch 1944.
Reserves in the mine are in irregular pockets and very little
ore is blocked out.
TUngsten reserves in the Copper ~ng mine
Units
Tons W03
Measured ore ........... ........ . Very small amount
Indicated are ••••.•••••••••••• 400 .300
Interred ore ••••••••••••••••• 500 375
Low-grade mate;ial ••••••••••• 1,000 350

Dailz Hetal Hines propertz

Tungsten-bearing tactite, formed along a granite~l1mestone

contaot, oocurs on the Daily Metal Hines property and on the
adjacent Contact and Oak claims. The Garnet No.1 claim, the
MOst tully developed in this area and the only one that bad sup-
plied any ore by Harch 1944, is about 15 miles due west ot the
town ot Beaver, on the east side ot the Mineral Mountains. The
property is easily .accessible by means of a road recently oon- .
~tructed along the east base of the range. Plate 32 shows the
location and plate 39 the geology of this deposit and that ot the
adjacent cla1ms.
The Garnet claims Nos. 1 and 2 and the Contact FractiOn
cla1m, owned by Ambrose McGarry of Beaver,. were under lease to
Daily Hetal Hines, Inc., in March 1944. The company was aotive
on the property in the ea·r ly spring of 1944, but operations were
reported to have oe~sed in Hay of the same year. Hine workings
consist of two . shatts, one 40 teet deep and the other 96 teet
deep, 700 feet of drIfts and crosscuts from the shafts, and about
20 surface trenChes. Development work on the 40-foot level,
about 330 teet, was· done betore the Dally Hetal H1oes, Ino.,
leased .the property.
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Geology

The Garnet and ,Contact Praotlon olaim. are on the Upper part
ot a gently eloping pediment Bome distance east ot the et ••per
slopes of the main mountain tront. The Burrace 1. slIghtly. dIs-
sected and only a tf!lff natural outcrops ot bedrook are to be
found. Most ot the· ground 1s mantled by a thick layer ot granlt-
.to sand and slope "ash derl ved trom areas of bedrock granite to
the west. Bum.roue trenohes and underground work1nga provide
sufficient exposures for accurate mapping ot the deposit 1n ~.
immediate vloinity of the ~ln workings.
Sch•• llte ocours in taotlte layera ad-I.oent to a granite
mass. The limestone 1s a fairly massive rook ." hlch strike. about
N. 36° B., and dips 75° to 8So NW. The "ldth of the 1~'8ton. Is
unknown aa most of it 1s covered by slope wash. It 1s bounded by
the granite on the northwest, where the contact appears to be
nearly parallel to the bedding of the limeatone. The gran1te is
a medium-srained porphyritic rock which is only slightly riner-
grained at the contact with the limestone than ",.th~n the ma,'s.
Minor amounts ot pegmatitic material ~ quarts veins are aS8001,,'"
a ted with its border facies. - -
The strike of the l1mestone-granite contaot 18 remarkably '
straight for a distance ot nearly halt a mile on the Garnet and
Contact cla1ms. Minor cross-taults and low-angle shears produoe
minor irregular1 ties and a small amount of off-setting, but the.e
are generally too small to affect the continuity of the lime-
stones and the1r included tactite layers. One low-angle fault OD
the 96-toot level has a reverse displaoement ot 15 to ~ te.t--
a distance sufficient to cut out the tactite layer at the place
where an exploratory orosscut intersects t be granit&-l1me.tone'
contact (aee pl. 39, sec. B-B'). Considerable ahearing parall&1
to the bedding and the contaot may be seen in ' the underground
workings. No other structural oomplications have ,been oba~ed
in the area.

Ore depo.it.

The scheelite oocurs in layera of taotite or garnet rock

tormed by tbe replacement ot oertain zones in the 11m$8to~ ••
On the Garnet No. l .olaim,. there are at least tour layer., ~
ing in width- from a ten 1nohe~ to 40 teet, 'w1th~ a sone 130 teet
"ide parallel to the granite contact. 'l'b.ese layers, ••pe.ratfid by
essentially unmetamorpboaed limestone, are not ' UD1tO~y replaoed
and vary in their aabeelite oontent both acros8 the garnet-riob
sones and along tbeir strIke.
These layers, t ·roJa the contact outward, are as tollows,
Layer No. 1, ~ed1ately adjacent to the oontact, ls, quite irreg-
ular and discontinuous. The relatively ten opening. ~long It ~
in the th1cker parts wblob reach a maximum lcnown tb1clm_s ot 18
feet. In places in t he underground workings the layer d1 vid••
into several thin stringers ot garnet rock in limestone. r.a,e1J
No. 2 is about 50 feet trom the contact. It 1s the moat per.iat-
ent and best explored or all the taot1t. ·lonesJ it averages about
30 reet in width, and maY "be traced along the str1lte tor at. leaat
800 feet. This zone Is probably coextensive witb a taotite sone
on the Contact ola1m 600 teet rartber northeast • . La1er Io. ~ t.
expo.edonly in trenche. 110 •• 14 and 17 (pl. ~9'" it 10 troa lC
to 12 feet wide and may be traoed on the surtace tor onl,.. 1&0
feet, althougb .1t io p1'obablT 1I11ch more _ . i T e -..th tile
 l~ STRA'rlIGIC HIIlERALS IIIVES'lIGA:rIONS, 1944

cover. Layer No.4 115 only partly exposed 1n trench No. 14 (pl.
39), and ita w1dth and length are unknown. Although the gran1te
oont~ct haa been located nearly 800 teet along its strike to the
8outm.e8~ or the main exposures of the - garnet rock, the taot1te
layera are apparently not present or well developed here,.
Al~ tour of the tactlte layers oontain same scheellte, but
only layer Bo. 2 haa 80 far been found to contain ore. Most ot
the garnet rock 115 t~ly laminated parallel to the bedding ot
the limestone, crumbles easl1y, and 1a ea8~ly broken into small
fragments. These characteristIcs are partly the result of the
original bedding ot the limestone, partly the result ot later
..bear1ng. Locally the tactlte layers contain 80me hard 8011d
rlb~ , ot garnet rook.

D!atrlbution of sobeelite

Scheel1te oocurs in the garnet rock as small disseminated

grains or' as coarser oryltals along occasional fracture planes
whicb cut across the laye~ing of the garnet rock. Althougn most
ot the tactite contains same sobeelite, ' the distribution of the
mineral is not unitorm, and only certain zones are ricb enougb to
be considered ore.
The richest ore in the mine "as found in the small crosscut
immediately south or the main shatt on the 40- toot level (lee
underground workings, pl. Z9). A tabular pocket ot ore, 2 to 3
teet tbick and about 16 teet in diameter, contain1ng in exceS8 or
1 percent W03, "as mined trom thi8 area . This locality is, nota-
ble for a series ot fractures that cut across the strike of the
taotite layers. Several of these fractures are beavily mineral-
ized and appear to have acted as channelways for the 1ntroduction
of the scheelite. It is probable that suoh intersections of
~ro8S fractures and the garnet-rich zones may localize shoots ot
better-grade ore. A much larger mass ot ore 100 feet north of
the shatt bas been m1ned from the 96- foot level. This material
averaged about 0.65 peroent W03 although h~gher-grade streaks
were present in it. '
The richest 9cheelite mineralization observed in the ~rkins­
and in the surface trenches is localized in that part ot tactite
layer Bo.- 2 extending 50 teet south and about 150 teet nortb of
the main ahatt. This segment of the garnet zQne is ,bulged
slightly to the east, parallel to a similar bUlge in the granite
contaot (pl. 39). Th1s s11gnt struoture may be related to suff1-
.cient cross-fracturing to account for the more intense minerali-
zation in this area, and may indicate that significant ~erali­
·aation occurs only where the tactite zones are cut by auch cross-
fracturing. Some scheelite is found in pegmat1te 1n the granite
in pit Ho. 8, due west of t he ma1n ahatt, and this alines "i~h
Bome 8oheelite-bear1ng pegmatite in pit No. 10, as well as with ,
the trend ot the cross-fraoturing in the underground workings.
!his structure may repre$ent a channelwa,.. tor tungsten-bearing
solutions trom the granite into the tactite. L1mited available
.videnoe eugge.ta that the scheelite introduc,tion took plaoe dur-
ing a very late mas=atio stage, atter garnetization of the lime-
stones. The only soheelite-hearing material ot any possible
economic signltioance outside of tbe areas outlined above oocura
in trench No. 20 near the south end ot the central area.
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Grade 'of -sOheellte ore •

. The grades ot material given for the surface trenches are'

based on reported 8ssays and estimates from visual observation.
On the surface of the area, the first four trenches north ot· tbe
main shatt (trenches NOB. 5, 6, 7, and ~, pl. 39) oontain the
best and moet persistent soheellte mineralIzation. Trench No. ~
18 estimated to average 0.1 to C.? percent W0 3 over a width of 40
feet. ~rench No. 6 contains an estimated average of 0.3 perc~nt
W03 over a width of 22 feet. Trenoh No.7 contaIns a ai-toot
mineralized zone of whioh 10 feet Is e8t~ted to average 0.3 to
0.4 peroent W03, and trench No. 9 Is mineralized for 30 feet of
which one 3-toot band may average 0.75 percent W03 or more. ,
South of the shaft, trenoh No. 11 is entirely in alluvium and
trench No. 12 shows very little soheelite. -Small amounts of
soheelite are present in trenohes 13 to 23, but veTY little mate-
rial of ore'- grade is present.
All of the underground workings on the 40.foot level are
south of the shaft. The highest assay reported from the district
(4 peroent W03) was obtained from a ohannei sample taken 1n tbe
small orosscut 10 teet south of the main shaft on the 40-foot
level of the m1ne. This sample probably was CLit in the plane... of
one of the narrow, rioh oross fraotures and is of lIttle s1gnt(1-
cance. An assay of a sample taken by the wr1ter fram a 2- to 3-
foot zone in the north wall of this crossout showed 'a oontent of
1.7 percent W03 • This pocket of ore has subsequently bee~ mined
out, yielding about 40 torts of ore wh1ch averaged more than 1 per-
cent W03. The dr1ft on the 40-foot level is rather uniformly
mineralized tor about 50 feet south from the center of the shaft,
but the grade, is low . . A chip sample from the east "all of the
drift oontained 0.~2 peroent W03 • The rest of the 40-toot level
shows sporadic oocurrences of soheelite, but none possess proved
continuity or Uniform graae.
The 96-foot level is dev,e loped on the same tagtite zone, but
for the most part on its extension to the north of the shatt. A
shoot ot ore was found about 100 feet north of the sbaft arid a
few .feet west of the main drift in a zone of sheeted or sheared
taotite "hich parallels the structure of the 1"hGle tactite body.
This shoot, now m1ned out, measured 30 feet 10 length, 70 feet in
height, and about 3 feet in average thiokne,s s, although at one
plaoe it expanded to a thickness of 9 teet. The average grade of '
the ore from th1s snoot was 0.65 percent W03 • A "inze north ot
this shoot contains taetite that averages 0.4 percent W03 , and,
although this is not of high enough grade to be ore, its presence
may indicate another ore body nearby. Likewise) a small raise
near the beginning of the long orosscut (pl. 39 , oontains 0.3
percent ~0:3 in a shear zone which appears to be conttnuous .wlth
the one which contained the large ore shoot. Ho other places '
exposed on the'96-toot level contain more than O~l or 0.2 percent
W"3. The orosscut to the granite oontact ·unfortunately cut the
granite at the one plaoe where the tactite, if present, 1s cut
out by faulting. Nothing is known therefore about the Character
of mineralization against the granite on the 96-root level.
P.late 39 shows the general d1str1bution of the "s 'c heelite in the
mine Y'IOrklnga.
Reserves

The deposits as a "hole are rather sparsely mineralIzed, and

mueh of the taot1te is barren. Parts· or the garnet zones have

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been proved to be rich .enough to be oonsidered ore but no appre-

ciable tonnage of such material 1s blocked out . By March 1944,
about 750 tons of ore with an averate W0 3 content of about 0.65
percent had been produced trom the mine. • _
BatLmatos of available tonnages of soheellte-bearlng material
wore based on visual observation with an ultraviolet lamp of ex-
posures in surfaoe trenches and in underground warkings, and ftore
gu1ded by production statistics and a tew samples. It was 8stl-
~ted that there 1s 500 tons ot material containing 375 units of
W03 • which may be classed 8S indicated ore . "In addition there 1s
15,000 tons of material oontaining 3,750 units ot W03 and 50,000
tons containing 7,500 units which 1a too low in grade to be
olasBod eve'n as inferred ore.

Contaot claim

The Contact olaim, adjoining the Garnet and Qontact Praction

claims on the northeast, is owned and operated by Ambrose McGarry
ot Beaver, Utah. Development work, which is not beyond the pros-
pecting stage, consists ot tour trenches and three sharts, one ot
which has been reconditioned for use as the main opening to the
underground workings.
The geology is essentially the same as on the ~rnet claims
(pl. " 39), but the exposures are poorer, and less can be l earned
about the potentialities of the property. Two garnet zones are
indicated by the trenching. Trench Ro. 2 exposes the edge ot one
zone at a distance ot about 30 teet trom the contact. Trench
So. 4 exposes another zone 13 teet wide at a distanoe ot about
100 teet tram the contact. The three shafts are not in tactite,
the southern one betng in a limonite-stained shear zone in the
limestone and the other two being in unmetamorphosed limestone.
~ Soheelite is not abundant in the tactite layers -and none of
the material so tar uncovered contains more than 0.1 or 0.2 per-
cent W03 • The only cons1stent showings are in trench No. 4 and
this material is estimated to average about 0.1 percent W0 3 • No
ore reserves can be estimated for this property.

Oak olaim

The Oak claim is soutb)tlest ot the Garnet claims and is shown

1n part on the map at . the district (pl. 39) • .~e olaim 1s leased.
by the Beaver Tungsten Mines, Inc., the principal interest in
which 1s he ld by Hr. Jam es McGarry ot Beaver, Utah . Development
work consists ot two shafts 45 feet apart, connected by a cross-
cut . The west shatt 1s about 25 'teet deep and the east shatt is
nearl y 90 teet deep. A 120-toot cross out has been driven to the
east rrom the bottom of the east shaft.
This occurrenpe is farther to the Vlest than the straight
granite contact ot the Garnet and Contact deposita and is not
related to it. The Oak deposit 1s apparently on the west bordsr
ot a granite tongue and is not related to .the granite contact of
the Garnet -and Contact deposita . A atralgh~ projection . ot the
Garnet and contact veins to the southwest would cross the east
end of the Oak clalm, but the ground is covered with debris and
no pro~pecting has been done 1n an attempt to find an 8xtens,"on
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Outorops are poor in the vicinity or the mine 'and the geo10g-
1c relations are obscure. The two shafts are ~unk on mineralized
zones in limestone, and s ome garnet rock wI tb sparssly d188~­
nated scheellte has been found. The veins cannot be traced with
oertaintyon the surrace~ but they appear to str1ke ,nearly ' north-
south. An irregular tactlte zone discovered in the 25-toot shatt
and in the upper part of the gO-root sbatt was not round at .
greater depth. T~e 8cheellte content of the exposed tactlte is
les8 than 0.2 percent W03 although a few small poCkets of materi-
al opntalnlng tram 0.5 to 1.00 percent WO~ have -~een diacovered.
A few specks of 8cheellte occur in a shear zone at the end of the
120-toot crosscut, but there are tew indications to suggest the
presence or any appreciable body or ore in the deposit .
The property was at the prospect state ot development in
March 1944 and had orrered very little encouragement to the oper-
ators.
Strategic Metals mine

The Strategic ~etals mine is on the east side or the Hineral

Mountains near the south end of the gran~tic stock and close to
the mouth of Pass Canyon, about 4 miles north of the town of
Adamsville. The location and the roads to the deposit are a~
on plate 32.
The deposit is owned by Ambrose McGarry and otners or Beaver,
Utah. Scheelite was discovered in old workings from whiOh a
small amount of lead-silver ore was mined years ag~. Subsequent
examination of the surface showed that the scheelite occurs - 1n
tactite'along the granite contact and in shear zones which extend
out from the contaot into the limestone for distanoes of 100 teet
or more . Development work on the scheelite ore in Haren 1944"
conSisted of .a small amount of new drifting tram the end of the
old level workings , extending them to a total of about 250 tee~,
a shaft about 60 feet deep on the main shear zone, and s _tew
small surface trenches. A small shipment or ore bas qeen made
trom ·the property to the Metals Reserve Co. in Salt Lake City,
Utah. - .
Geology

The geology at the mine is shOftO in plate 40. A series of

marble1~ed 1~e8tones or Triassic age are in contact with coarse-
grained granite . The sedimentary rocks include some layers of
shaly ~pure limestone, and certain areas of the limestones are
intensely silicified to a rock .which olosely resembles a t1n~­
grained quartz1te • . A small area of a tine-grained diorite or
related basic rock occurs in the limestones near the south-
central part of the area, but has no apparent relation to the
scbeelite mineralization. The composition o~ the main intrusiVe
rock is close to that of a true granite, although there are looal
variations in composition. The intrusion of the granite ·produced
contact metamorphism 1n the adjacent 1~estone8 acoompanied by_
. the development ot zones of massive taotite which range in width
from a fractlop of a root to 30 teet or more. Thin stringers ot
tactite in l~estone or partly replaoed limestone may extend as
tar as 200 teet trom the contact . The variation In''toe amount ot
taotite is controlied in part by the oomposition and physical
character ot the limestone layers, in part by the structural
relations of the oontact to the structure of the l1meat'o ne beds,
. and in part by fractures, faults, and shear zones which. afforded
passage tor the mineralizing solu·tions.
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'!'he" ood1mentlll7 l'Ocka otr1ke about •• ~. B. and d1p 7&" to

eo· SB. In contraot to other previouIl:r d•••1'1I>od depo.1t. on
the east 81de or tne !lin.ral !'Iountalna the liae.tone. strike
direotly' into the granite 'oontaot ltblob 1e here .o.ewbat
LJesd-:-
lar and tor.ae a local reentrant "lt~ Wb10b tbe 4epo.lt 1,
located. The border. ot the granite _" dip ftther at. .plT IIDd.
everY"here truncate the .truoture ot the 1im•• tone.

Ore depo.1t

'!'he ocheelite depooito at thi. looa11t:r are or two di.tinot

types a1though the t1za.e ot formation and the general IIOde ot
origin are probably the same tor both. 1'b.e first ot the•• ~
priae. tactlte deposita to~.d tor the moat part 1D It.eatone '·
1mmecUatel:r adjacent to th.. granite contactJ thO ••pond 1. a
deposit or soheelite in a ahear zone Whioh 1. nearly parallel bo
the bedding of the 11meatone and at right angles to the gra.nlt.
contact •
•' The tactlte Is composed e ••• nUall,.. ot garnet with _1nor
amounts ot other ellieatea, residual carbonate, and 100&1 concen-
trations or pyrite. Scheellte oooura soattered throughout the '
metamorphic rocks but generally in , neglIgIble amount.. Oonoen-
trationa of CODIIlercIa1-grade ache.1Ite ocour 1n the tactiu
ueually wi thin a few teet ot tbe GOntact, but Ncb areaa ot h1&b- ,
er-grade ore are loca11sed in relatlTe1y ... 11 diaoonttDuoua
poaketa. '
'two auch leola ted, ' d1acontlnuoul 'p Ockets ot ore were tound in
the underground work1ngo (pl. 40) along ~ rather p~1nont t1.-
Bure relatively cloae to the contact. The pocket oloa.lt to tbe
contaot contained oons.1derable lul:tl4e-ma1nl,. P1l"lte. Twent,. or
30 tons of ore containing near1,. 2 peroent W03 ftaa removed froa
theae areaa. A ~ublevel, abou~ 20 feet ·below the main level,
interseots the 18me fault filsure direotly be10w one of the blBb-
grade pocket. of ore, but it containa only a few apeake of
soheellte.
On the surface, the taot1te zone can be traoed almost OO~
tinuously for about 900 teet along the oontaot. There are a tew
gaps 1n this distanoe which ahow little or no tactite a~ places
where unfavorable beds adjoin the granite or where surfaoe debr1s
covers the contact. The tblCkness of' the tactlte ranges tra. a
teft inches to :so feet or more. Huch of' the expo.ed tacti te con-
tains II. tfM scattered specks of scheellte, but ~re again, a&
underground, only local pockets ot higher---grade mat'e rial occur.
A series ot trenche8 along the east-welt aegment of tactlte near
the north end ot t~e zone d18closed one pocket rra. wh1ch aever-
al tons of' 1 percent W~ ore baa "been r.oved. The tactite ex-
posed in the road cut timed1ately above the highest switchback is
3 teet thtck and 18 estimat,d to contain trom. 0.75 to 1.00 per-
oent W03. The lateral .extent or this ore is covered by the road
material below and surf'ace debris above. .A third sho"~ o~ pos-
elble slgnifioance occurs 1n the small pit and surround.1i1g out- .
crops about 200 f'eet " 'e st and slightly lower than the portal ot.
tbemail acUt. A small area against the contact here 1s eat1mat-
ed to oontain 0.5 percent W~ and a ~ch large~ area to average
0.20 percent W03. Hoat ot tne scheelite in the tact1te fluo-
resoee with a pronounoed yellow color and probably contains COD-
aiderable molybdenum.
The ooaurrence of' schee11te in a
SODe of aheared, thin-bedded
limestone "hich bas been partlJ' altered b:r contaot meta.orph1..
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represents the second type ot d~PQ81t. Thi. zone 1s in ·the

northern part ot the mapped area immediately east ot the prine1·
pal taetlte zone. The zone ot shearing 18 10 teet wide and ~
strikes trom the contaot through the upper end ot the roadS 1t
may be coextensive with a zone ot unbroken but thin-bedded and
partly metamorpbosed Itmeatonel exposed 1n the first road out.
below the upper end ot the road. Th~ shear lODe Is borde~ed qn
the east by massive white cryatalline limestone, and on ,the w~~~
by massive _limestone and BomB tactlt~. I
The moat important conoentration ot IOheellts ooour. in 2 to
12 teet of more intensely sheared limestone near the eastern ~lde
ot the 70-toot zone. An open out and a 60-toot Bhatt at ODS ~nd
"ere opened in the m1nerall"z ed area. The mineralised sone aPi
pear. to dip parallel to the bedding, but the rooks In the zo~e
are intensely brQken and ahow no atrong, oontinuou • • truoture~.
The area o~ 8cheelite mineralisation can not be traoed on th~ I
, IUr~ace tor more than 20 ~eet because ot overburden, but the
shear zone is well exposed in the road cut , 120 t~et south ot the
ahatt, 1'Ihere, however, only a very few apeck. ot soheelite are to
be tound. It is more likely that the mineralised area oontinues
northward toward the contaot ot the granite and that it& &01lee1-
ite ' content i& le.s variable in that directIon. Sobeelite ooour.
in thin seams and orystals .oattered through the sheared and ;
breociated rock . Near the top ot the shat1; tbe best ortli i. o~­
oentrated in a 2-toot "zone ot parallel traotures, but at greater
depth the mineralized rook i& more . irregular and di.per.ed ovSr '' : ,
a wIder area, apparently being oontrolled more by Irregular b 0-
oia Zones or branoh tractures than by bedding shears. Huoh 0
the ore is sott and crumbly although some la)"8rs ot hard, unb k-
en roek are present. The sobeelite fluoresoes with a whIte o~ ,
only very slightly yellow oolor and apparently containe le8s I ,-
1
molybdenum than the tactite ores. Approximately 150 tone o~ or '
averaging 0.95 peroent W03 has been &hipped from the shatto -
,
Reserves and future ot the deposit I
' Ore reserves are calculated separately for the two olassea: at
deposits represented at the mine. These est1matee represent the'
amounts of ore of the varIous grades that the. df'Jposlt might '
reasonably be expected t ,o contain. Hucb ot the materIal la.. n~~
cOMmeroial ore under the economic oonditions ot 1943-44. A small -
amount could be profitably shipped it a nearby market were avall-
able, more may be- considered m1lling ore, and ~ larger part would
probably be non-cammercial except under ' amerg~oy conditIons and
at a greatly Increased pric,e .
Ore reserves
Shear zone 'laotlte
Tons Units Tons Unit.
Measured •••••••• •• •••••• • •••• Ilegl1g1ble amount 50 26
Ind1cat'e d •••••••••••••••••••• 1,500 1,200 50C 250 ,
Interred ••••• • •••••••••• • •••• 1,200 900 2,700 550
Totals ••••••• • ••••••••••• 2,700 2,160 3,260 B25 l
Orand total •••••••••• 5,950 tons 2,925 un.1ts I

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Creole mine

The Creole mine 1s on the weat slope of the Mineral Moun-

tains, about 5 miles northeast ot the town ot Minersville, Utah.
It was leased in 1943 by C. H. Segerstrom who mined out moat ot
the 8cheellte ore. The mine 1s an old property previously worked
tor lead and silver, and extensive ~rk1ng8 were opened during
these operations. The main ore bodies conaist ot massive 8ulfide -
replacements in 'limestone along the contact ot a ~de quartz mon-
zonite or granite dike. Scheellte was found at the surface a
ahort distance south of the main adit, in a large, irregular mass
ot limonitic material which apparently represents the oxidized
outcrop ot one ot the Bulfide replacement bodies.
Schee llte occurred 8S crystals scattered through the verr
irregular bodies of light porous limonite. Mining operations
have shown that th~ limonite zone, 10 or more feet wide in
plaoes, narrows down and pinohes out into a series of irregular
fissures in limestone at a very shallow depth. Soheelite miner-
alization was not uniform in the limonite.
A searoh through the old workings of tbe Creole mine, wbiCb
extend to depths of 400 feet and laterally in primary sulfides
beneath the oxidized outorop, failed to show more than a few
specks of soheelite.
Several hundred tons of good ore was removed from the pookets
of limonite, but very little ore remained in 1944 ' and there are
no indioations where more may be found.

Minor ooourrences of scheelite

A number of other occurrences of scheelite have been reported

from Beaver County, but most of them are of very .minor importance.
A small amount of soheelite ocours in contact rock on the prop-
erty of the Little May Lilly Mining Co. in the Star mining dis-
trict, about 5 miles west of Milford. Only a amall amount of
soheelite i8 'shown in the shallow workings and it is improbable
that any appreciable amount of ore will be developed.
Same small pockets of ore occur in the upper part of the old
Imperial mine property, a short distance east of the Cupric tung-
sten deposit. This property was leased in 1944 to nr. M. P • .
Lewis of Hiltord, Utah. The deposit Is about Ii miles from the
end ot a road, and is relatively inaccessible. Scheelite ocours
in a small tactite body exposed near an igneous contact high
above the old mine workings. Expo~ures indicate approx1ma.t ely
1,000 tons ot ore which Is esttmated to contain about 0.75 per-
cent W~, but the inaccessibIlity of the deposit reduces the
probabIlity of a successful operation .
The Two Rrs Mining Co. property, owned by Mr. Reese Grirtltha
and Mr. R. Myers of HinersvIll~, Utah, is on the west side of the
Hineral Mountaln~ about 8 miles east of Milford. A 2- to 6-toot
zone of scheelite-bearing tactlte .1n limestone Is exposed in an
open cut. The grade ot the ore Is low and no appreciable tonnage
has been developed. It is reported that mill-head assays on 58
tons of ore sent to Milford tor a mill test averaged 0.58 percent
W0 3 "

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TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS, BEAVER COUN'l'Y, UTAH 111

Other minor oocurrences are found on several groups -of.

claims, includ1ng the undeveloped JUlesburg claim, whlon are
located along the granite contact Ort the east side of' the Mineral
Mountains, between the Strnteglc Metals mine and the Oak ela~s .·
Considerable exploratory work was done on one group of. ,cla1ms,
but no ore was found. Scheellte ocours in small amounts on sev-
eral properties northeast of the contact claim, but no ore had
been developed on them by the spring of 1944. These include the
King gf the HIlls mine, the Major Fault claim , and the ' Rattler
claim. The King of the HIlls m~ne 1s an 01& property with somo
scheellte in dump materIal.

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