Utah Group

Past Producer in Utah county in Utah, United States with commodities Silver, Lead, Gold, Copper, Barium-Barite
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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10020090
MRDS ID DC12542
Record type Site
Current site name Utah Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.09968, 39.93995 (WGS84)
Elevation 2231
Relative position EAST SLOPE OF GODIVA MTN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Utah(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 Utah

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 010S 002W 20 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Gold Secondary
Copper Secondary
Barium-Barite Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Enargite Ore
Galena Ore
Gold Ore
Barite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian

Nearby scientific data

(1) Ajax Dolomite and Opex Formation

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Pine Canyon Fault (Ne), Beds Strike North And Dip 45 E; The Mine Is On The West Limb Of The Tintic Syncline; Fractures Trend N, N 15 E, N 30 W, And East.

Ore body information

  • General form FLAT SHOOT

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Tintic District

Comments on the workings information

  • ONE TUNNEL

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MIN. RES. OF THE U.S.: (1916)-(1919)

  • Deposit

    COOK, D. R., 1957 , GEOL OF E TINTIC MTNS AND ORE DEP OF TINTIC MINING DIST: UTAH GEOL SOC GUIDEBOOK #12 , PL 3

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN, W. AND LOUGHLIN, G. F., 1919 , GEOL & ORE DEP OF TINTIC MINING DIST: USGS PROF PAPER 107 , P. 230 - 1

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 09-25-1962

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1974 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1979 Wong, George (Tooker, Ed) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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