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Jupiter Mine

Past Producer in Summit county in Utah, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, Copper
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10014810
MRDS ID D012019
Record type Site
Current site name Jupiter Mine
Alternate or previous names Silver King Coalition Group, United Park City Mines, Council Bluffs Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.54661, 40.613 (WGS84)
Elevation 2822
Relative position 1800 FT S87W FROM JUPITER HILL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Summit(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Brighton(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Salt Lake City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Salt Lake City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Jordan(hydrologic unit)

Jordan(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Summit

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 002S 004E 30 SE OF NW OF SW Utah

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :1983

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Malachite Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Specularite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Clayton Peak Stock
    Rock description Clayton Peak Stock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Thaynes Formation;Ankarel Formation
    Rock description Thaynes Formation;Ankarel Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.54661, 40.613
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Uinta-Cottonwood Arch, Sevier Overthrust Belt, Iron Hollow Syncline
Type of structure Local
Structure description Northeast Striking Crescent Fissure Zone

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N30E TO N70E
    Dip 45SE TO 85 SE
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Northeast Striking Crescent Fissure

Comments on the geologic information

  • PROPERTY LIES JUST NORTH OF THE CLAYTON PEAK STOCK. SEDIMENTARY UNITS SHOW HIGH DEGREE OF CONTACT METAMORPHISM. CRESCENT FISSURE ZONE PASSES THROUGH PROPERTY AND HOSTS MINERALIZATION.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1877
Year of first production 1882
Year of last production 1975

Mining district

District name Park City District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner United Park City Mines Co.

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION WAS INTERMITTENT AND NO ACCURATE RECORDS ARE AVAILABLE. PROPERTY WAS SHIPPING ORE BY THE EARLY 1880'S. IN 1887 50,000 LBS OF HIGH-GRADE ORE WAS PRODUCED. SOME PRODUCTION IN 1894, AND 1900. REGULAR SHIPMENTS WERE MADE IN 1906. LAST YEAR OF PRODUCTION NOT ACCURATELY KNOWN.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 426.72M
    Overall depth 243.84M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF INCLINES AND A SERIES OF TUNNELS. ONE INCLINE IS 150 FT DEEP AND THE OTHER ABOUT 300 FT. THE LOWER, OR MAIN TUNNEL, IS OVER 800 FT IN LENGTH. THE TUNNELS IN GENERAL EXTEND TOWARDS THE SOUTHEAST AND THE INCLINES DIP STEEPLY TO THE SOUTHEAST. APPROXIMATELY 1400 FT OF WORKINGS ARE KNOWN NUMEROUS PROSPECT PITS ALSO ARE PRESENT.

Comments on development

  • INITIAL PROSPECTING TOOK PLACE IN THE EARLY 1880'S. BY 1886 A GOOD VEIN WAS DISCOVERED AND SHIPPING COMMENCED. IN 1887 20 TONS OF ORE WAS SHIPPED AND THE LOWER OR MAIN TUNNEL WAS STARTED. IN 1888 ADDITIONAL RICH ORE WAS FOUND. IN 1889 THE PROPERTY WAS WORKED BY LESSES. IN 1890 THE PROPERTY WAS INCORPORATED AT COUNCIL BLUFFS. BY 1900 THE MAIN VEIN HAD BEEN OPENED 300 FT ON ITS DIP AND YIELDED EXCELLENT ORE. ABOUT 1905, AFTER A PERIOD OF INACTIVITY, THE MAIN TUNNEL WAS EXTENDED SEVERAL HUNDRED FEET AND A RICH LEAD-SILVER ORE BODY WAS DISCOVERED

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BOUTWELL, J.M., 1912, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE PARK CITY DISTRICT, UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF. PAPER, NO. 77, 231 PP.

  • Deposit

    ERIKSON, A.J., (EDITOR), 1968, PARK CITY DISTRICT, UTAH: GUIDEBOOK TO THE GEOLOGY OF UTAH, NO. 22, UTAH GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

  • Deposit

    BUTLER, B.S., LOUGHLIN, G.F., HEIKES, V.C., AND OTHERS, 1920, THE ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF. PAPER, NO. 111, 672 PP.

  • Deposit

    BARNES, M.P., AND SIMONS, J.S., 1968 ORE DEPOSITS OF THE PARK CITY DISTRICT WITH A CONTRIBUTION ON THE MAYFLOWER LODE, IN ORE DEPOSITS OF THE UNITED STATES: AM. INST. METALL. ENG., V.II, P. 1102

  • Deposit

    BAKER, A.A., CALKINS, F.C., CRITTENDEN, M.D., JR., AND BROMFIELD, C.S., 1966, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE BRIGHTON QUADRANGLE, UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEOL. QUAD. MAP GQ-534.

  • Production

    BOUTWELL, 1912

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE WAS LOCATED IN FISSURES STRIKING NORTHEAST. THIS FISSURE ZONE IS THE SOUTHWESTERN EXTREMITY OF THE CRESCENT FISSURE.
Deposit Discovery Year: LATE 1870'S

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1984 Shubat, Michael A. Utah Geological and Mineral Survey

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