Lone Pine

Past Producer in Box Elder county in Utah, United States with commodity Tungsten
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. Reserves and resources
  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 10015832
MRDS ID DB02084
Record type Site
Current site name Lone Pine
Alternate or previous names Amw
Related records 10130383, 10227503

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.77225, 41.51742 (WGS84)
Elevation 2057
Relative position 1 MILE SOUTH OF ROCKY PASS PEAK AND 1/2 MILE SOUTH OF MUD BASIN SPRING

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Box Elder(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Rocky Pass Peak(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Box Elder

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 009N 017W 10 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS: SE 1/4 NE 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Powellite Ore
Scheelite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Epidote Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result 2 FT. CHIP SAMPLE OF REMAINING ORE YIELDED 2.96 PERCENT WO3

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Grouse Creek Pluton Or Emigrant Pass Intrusion
    Rock description Grouse Creek Pluton Or Emigrant Pass Intrusion
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Pogonip Formation
    Rock description Pogonip Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.77225, 41.51742

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike NORTH
    Dip 27 DEG E
    Thickness 1.22M
    Length 426.72M
    Width 182.88M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Favorable Beds Near Limestone-Quartz Monzonite Contact

Comments on the geologic information

  • K2 COMPTON AND OTHERS CALL THIS INTRUSION GRANODIORITE VERGING ON ADAMELLITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Rosebud

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • MOSTLY WORKED 1940 - 44 AND 1954 - 1956

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1961
    Total resources 2000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Tungsten Wo3 0.67 wt-pct Tungsten Major 1961

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 350.52M

Comments on the workings information

  • SEVERAL INCLINES AND ADITS ( 200 FT. OF INCLINED SHAFTS AND WINZES, 900 FT. OF CROSSCUTS AND DRIFTS, 50 FT. OF RAISES AND 200 FT. OF OPENCUTS AND TRENCHES

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DIP VARIES 25 TO 30 DEG. E

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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