Corner Creek Mines

Past Producer in Box Elder county in Utah, United States with commodities Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver
Sections on this page
  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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10015751
MRDS ID DB01931
Record type Site
Current site name Corner Creek Mines
Alternate or previous names Deer Trail Mine?
Related records 10227238

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.52697, 41.85463 (WGS84)
Elevation 2073
Relative position RIGHT FORK OF CORNER CREEK CANYON, 1 MILE NE OF BLACK HILLS SPRING

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Box Elder(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Dennis Hill(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Grouse Creek(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Brigham City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Northern Great Salt Lake Desert(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Sawtooth National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Box Elder

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 013N 015W 14 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS SW 1/4 NE 1/4 NE 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Copper Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Silver Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Copper Ore
Limonite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Adamellite Gneiss
    Rock description Adamellite Gneiss
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Adamellite Gneiss
    Rock description Adamellite Gneiss

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.52697, 41.85463

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 45 E
    Dip 60 DEG SE
    Thickness 0.91M
    Length 182.88M
    Width 30.48M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Quartz Veins

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Park Valley

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 548.64M

Comments on the workings information

  • ACCESSIBLE WORKINGS SHOW 1000 FT OF UNDERGROUND WORKINGS ON MAIN LEVEL, 4 OR 5 OTHER PROSPECTS AND CAVED ADITS IN VICINITY.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    COMPTON, R. R., 1972 , GEOLOGY OF THE YOST QUAD.: USGS MISC. GEOL. INV. MAP I - 672

  • Deposit

    1972 GEOLMAP COMPTON, MAP I - 672

  • Deposit

    1973 MINEMAP UGMS - FILES

  • Production

    DOELLING, H. H., 1979 , UTAH GEOL. AND MINERALOG. SURVEY ON-SITE INVESTIGATION.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit QUARTZ VEIN IS BRECCIATED

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1979 Doelling, Hellmut H. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.