Rocky Pass Mines and Prospects

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. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10015834
MRDS ID DB02086
Record type Site
Current site name Rocky Pass Mines and Prospects
Related records 10130513

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.76308, 41.50242 (WGS84)
Elevation 1780
Relative position ON MAIN RIDGE - 1 1/2 TO 2 MILES SOUTH OF ROCKY PASS PEAK

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)

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 009N 017W 10,14 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • E 1/2 SE 10 , AND NW 14

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Calcite Gangue
Epidote Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Quartz Gangue

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) Late Ordovician
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Pogonip Formation
    Rock description Pogonip Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.76308, 41.50242

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 70 W
    Dip 65 DEG NE
    Thickness 1.22M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Favorable Limestone Beds Along Igneous Contact

Comments on the geologic information

  • K2 COMPTON AND OTHERS, 1977 , 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 BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • A FEW TONS OF MINERALIZED ROCK REMAIN IN THE WORKINGS

Comments on the workings information

  • SEVERAL OPEN CUTS, SHALLOW INCLINE SHAFTS, AND A 200 FT. ADIT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    EVERETT, F. D., 1961 , TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS IN UTAH: US BUREAU MINES INF. CIRC. 8014 .

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, H. H., IN PREP., GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF BOX ELDER COUNTY, UTAH: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY BULL.

  • Deposit

    1961 RECON EVERETT, US BUREAU OF MINES IC 8014

  • Deposit

    1973 MINEMAP UTAH GEOL. & MINERAL SURVEY

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SEVERAL SCATTERED SMALL DEPOSITS

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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