Metal Queen Mine

Past Producer in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, Zinc
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. Geologic structures
  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 10019992
MRDS ID DC12133
Record type Site
Current site name Metal Queen Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.59914, 40.51022 (WGS84)
Elevation 2463
Relative position APPROX. 1.5 MI, N60E FROM N. WILLOW LAKE.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

North Willow Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rush-Tooele Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Uinta-Wasatch-Cache 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 Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 003S 007W 35 NE OF NE OF SE Utah

Comments on the location information

  • (PROJ.) SEC. 35

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Secondary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Calcite Gangue
Limonite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Gardner Dolomite
    Rock description Gardner Dolomite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.59914, 40.51022

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Deseret Anticline
Type of structure Local
Structure description North-South And East-West Faults Of Small Net Slip

Ore body information

  • General form LENTICULAR AND TABULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Breccia Zones

Comments on the geologic information

  • NEAR THE UNCONFORMABLE GARDNER DOLOMITE-PINE CANYON LIMESTONE CONTACT.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1939

Mining district

District name Third Term

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 154.84M

Comments on the workings information

  • THE WORKINGS CONSIST OF FOUR ADITS: THE PRINCIPAL ADIT TOTALS 403 FT., INCLUDING DRIFTS AND CROSSCUTS; THE OTHER ADITS ARE 55 FT., 35 FT. AND 15 FT. LONG. THE 55 FT. LONG ADIT IS APPROX. 45 FT. WEST OF THE PRINCIPAL ADIT. THE SHORT ADITS ARE APPROX. 50 FT. ABOVE THE MAIN WORKINGS.

Comments on development

  • THE U.S. BUREAU OF MINES FIELD WORK (1980) WAS PART OF A MINERAL RESOURCES EVALUATION OF A RARE II AREA (04-757) IN THE STANSBURY. MTNS. SECTION (GRANTSVILLE DIV.) OF THE WASATCH NATIONAL FOREST.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MESSENGER, H.M. III, 1980, ON-SITE-INVESTIGATION,: UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY

  • Deposit

    RIGBY, J.L., 1958, GEOLOGY OF THE STANSBURY MOUNTAINS: GUIDEBOOK TO THE GEOLOGY OF UTAH, NO. 13, UTAH GEOL. SOCIETY, P. 127

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, 1940, MINERALS YEARBOOK, P. 454, 462.

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES WAR MINERALS REPORT

  • Deposit

    1980 GEOLMAP UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY

  • Deposit

    1980 RECON U.S. BUREAU OF MINES-DENVER

  • Production

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, 1940, MINERALS YEARBOOK, P. 454, 462

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE ONLY GALENA MINERALIZATION SEEN AT THE MINE WAS IN ONE SHALLOW ADIT ABOVE THE PRINCIPAL ADIT, AS DISSEMINATED GRAINS IN A BRECCIA ZONE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1980 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1992 Messenger, Harold M. III U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references