Mouth of Patterson Pass Canyon

Past Producer in Box Elder county in Utah, United States with commodities Lead, Zinc, Silver, Copper, Gold
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. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10015793
MRDS ID DB02023
Record type Site
Current site name Mouth of Patterson Pass Canyon
Related records 10226953

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.04058, 41.19492 (WGS84)
Elevation 1890
Relative position MOUTH OF CANYON, 1 1/2 MILES WEST OF PATTERSON PASS ON NEVADA - UTAH STATE LINE

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

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management UT)

Bureau of Land Management UT BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

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 33,32 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • CENTER OF LINE BETWEEN SECS. 32 AND 33

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Tertiary
Gold Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Copper Ore
Gold Ore
Calcite Gangue
Limonite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Limonitization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Rock unit name Monzonite
    Rock description Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Silurian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Silurian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Laketown Dolomite
    Rock description Laketown Dolomite

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Length 22.86M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fissure Veins, Bedding Planes

Comments on the geologic information

  • 1 1/2 MILES FROM OUTCROP OF STOCK

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Lucin Mining District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • GLORY HOLE WITH CAVED ADIT BENEATH AND SEVERAL SHALLOW PITS

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 GEOL. 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

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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