Tetro Prospect

Past Producer in Juab county in Utah, United States with commodity 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. Alteration
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10020085
MRDS ID DC12528
Record type Site
Current site name Tetro Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.10635, 39.95245 (WGS84)
Elevation 2060
Relative position 5500 FT. N 38 E OF EUREKA PEAK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Juab(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Eureka(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lynndyl(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Delta(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Sevier(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Juab

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 010S 002W 18 NW OF SE Utah

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION IS TETRO SHAFT; TETRO TUNNEL LIES TO SOUTHWEST ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1977

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • NOT A SUBSTANTIAL PRODUCER

Alteration

  • (Local) Minor Alteration Of Volcanic Rocks

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.10635, 39.95245

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form OTHER UNKNOWN

Comments on the geologic information

  • CLOSELY RELATED TO CHIEF MINE BUT NOT ON A KNOWN ORE CHANNEL

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1895

Mining district

District name Tintic District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Chief Consolidated Mining Co.
    Home office New York, Ny.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 152.4M
    Overall depth 152.4M

Comments on the workings information

  • IN 1917 AN ADIT 275 FEET LONG, WITH A SHAFT SUNK FROM IT TO THE 500 LEVEL OF THE GODIVA MINE

Comments on development

  • WAS DEVELOPING IN 1898 WITH GUS TETRO, MANAGER, NOAH MCCHRYSTAL PRESIDENT, AS A SMALL GOLD MINE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MORRIS, H.T., AND LOVERING, T.S., 1979, GENERAL GEOLOGY AND MINES OF THE EAST TINTIC MINING DISTRICT, UTAH AND JUAB COUNTIES, UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 1024, 194 PP.

  • Deposit

    COOK, D.R., ED., 1957, GEOLOGY OF THE EAST TINTIC MOUNTAINS AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE TINTIC MINING DISTRICTS: UTAH GEOL. SOC. GUIDEBOOK, NO. 12, 183 P.

  • Deposit

    MORRIS, H.T., 1964, GEOLOGY OF THE EUREKA QUADRANGLE, UTAH AND JUAB COUNTIES, UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1142-K, P. K1-K29.

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN, WALDEMAR, AND LOUGHLIN, G.F., 1919, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE TINTIC MINING DISTRICT, UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 107, 276 PP.

  • Deposit

    TOWER, G.W., AND SMITH, G.O., 1898, GEOLOGY AND MINING INDUSTRY OF TINTIC DISTRICT: U.S. GEOL. SURV. 19TH ANNUAL REPORT, VOLUME 3.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit OCCURRENCES ARE NOT ACCESSIBLE
Deposit Discovery Year: 1890S

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1983 James, Laurence P. Utah Geological and Mineral Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references