Southwest Copper Mountain Workings

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10015788
MRDS ID DB02012
Record type Site
Current site name Southwest Copper Mountain Workings
Related records 10251595

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.02169, 41.24742 (WGS84)
Elevation 2073
Relative position SOUTHWEST SLOPE OF COPPER MOUNTAIN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Box Elder(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Patterson Pass(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wells(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Wells(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Pilot-Thousand Springs, Nevada, Utah(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

BLM Administrative Area(land status)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Box Elder

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 006N 019W 09,10,15 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SE SE 9 ; SW SW 10 ; NW NW 15

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary
Silver Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Smithsonite Ore
Limonite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Limonitization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Rock unit name Patterson Pass Stock
    Rock description Patterson Pass Stock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Devonian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Devonian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Guilmette Formation
    Rock description Guilmette Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.02169, 41.24742

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR - SHEET LIKE
    Strike NORTH
    Dip VARIES
    Thickness 0.3M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fissures

Comments on the geologic information

  • STOCK IS 3/4 MILE TO EAST

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Lucin Mining District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 76.2M

Comments on the workings information

  • SEVERAL SHORT ADITS AND SHALLOW SHAFTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BLUE, D. M., 1960 , GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE LUCIN MINING DISTRICT, BOX ELDER COUNTY, UTAH AND ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA: UNIV. OF UTAH MS THESIS.

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, H. H., IN PREPARATION, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF BOX ELDER COUNTY, UTAH: UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY BULLETIN.

  • Deposit

    1973 MINEMAP UTAH GEOL & MINERAL SURVE

  • Reserve-Resource

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

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SEVERAL SCATTERED MINERALIZED AREAS

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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