Mineral resources of the Wah Wah Mountains Wilderness Study Area, Beaver and Millard Counties, Utah

Book · Sun Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1989

OSTI ID:5510941

Cox, L J; Duttweiler, K A; Campbell, D L; Duval, J S; Podwysocki, M H; Bankey, V; Cook, K L; Brown, S D

The Wah Wah Mountains Wilderness Study Area is in western Utah about 32 mi west of Milford, Utah, and 43 mi east of Garrison, Nevada. This study area consists mostly of Paleozoic carbonate rocks in a block-faulted mountain range. Tertiary volcanic rocks crop out in the northern and southern parts of this study area. The rock outcrops at the southern end of this study area lie within the contact-metamorphic aureole of several Tertiary dioritic and rhyolitic stocks exposed south of this study area. Identified resources with industrial or agricultural applications include inferred subeconomic resources of limestone, dolomite, sandstone, quartzite, and volcanic rock. Inferred subeconomic iron-rich material was also identified at two small iron prospects along the southwestern study-area boundary. Several areas in the southern part of the wilderness study area have a moderate mineral resource potential for undiscovered antimony, zinc, cadmium, and tungsten, associated in places with molybdenum, arsenic, lead, bismuth, and gold in replacement bodies and veins of several types. The rest of this study area has a low mineral resource potential for these metals. This study area has a moderate energy resource potential for oil and natural gas, and a low energy resource potential for uranium and geothermal energy.

• OSTI ID: 5510941
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

58 GEOSCIENCES
580100* -- Geology & Hydrology-- (-1989)
ALKALINE EARTH METAL COMPOUNDS
CALCIUM CARBONATES
CALCIUM COMPOUNDS
CARBON COMPOUNDS
CARBONATE MINERALS
CARBONATE ROCKS
CARBONATES
CENOZOIC ERA
DOLOMITE
ELEMENTS
FEDERAL REGION VIII
GEOLOGIC AGES
GEOLOGIC DEPOSITS
GEOLOGIC FAULTS
GEOLOGIC FRACTURES
GEOLOGIC STRUCTURES
GEOLOGIC SURVEYS
GEOTHERMAL RESOURCES
IGNEOUS ROCKS
MAGNESIUM CARBONATES
MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS
METALS
MINERAL RESOURCES
MINERALS
MOLYBDENUM
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
NATURAL GAS DEPOSITS
NORTH AMERICA
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PETROLEUM DEPOSITS
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
RESOURCE POTENTIAL
RESOURCES
ROCKS
SANDSTONES
SEDIMENTARY ROCKS
SURVEYS
TERTIARY PERIOD
TRANSITION ELEMENTS
US DOI
US ORGANIZATIONS
USA
UTAH
VOLCANIC ROCKS