Northern Spy Mine

Past Producer in Utah county in Utah, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, Copper
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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10020095
MRDS ID DC12553
Record type Site
Current site name Northern Spy Mine
Alternate or previous names Carisa
Related records 10276825

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.10023, 39.92939 (WGS84)
Elevation 2256
Relative position 1000 FT S 45 E OF MAMMOTH PEAK

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 30 SE OF NE Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SOUTHWEST OF IRON BLOSSOM NUMBER 3 ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1977

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cerargyrite Ore
Copper Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Argillization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Deseret Limestone;Pinyon Peak; Victoria
    Rock description Deseret Limestone;Pinyon Peak; Victoria
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.10023, 39.92939

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Sioux A Tap Fault Zone
Type of structure Local
Structure description Caves

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike N 15 E
    Dip 90
    Length 609.6M
    Width 3.05M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • North-South Fracture

Comments on the geologic information

  • A LARGE CAVE, PARTIALLY COLLAPSED WITH SECONDARY CU AND FE MINERALS, WAS FOUND BELOW BOTTOM OF SHAFT

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1885
Year of last production 1925

Mining district

District name Tintic District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Empire Mines Co
  • Type Owner
    Owner Anaconda Co.
    Home office New York, N.Y.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 4827.9M
    Overall depth 213.36M

Comments on the workings information

  • ADIT, TWO SHAFTS AS OF 1898; POOR CONDITION 1983

Comments on development

  • EARLY DAY PROSPECT AND PRODUCER

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., JR., AND SMITH, G.O., 1899, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 19TH ANNUAL REPORT, VOLUME III, 1897-1898.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Discovery Year: 1880S
Deposit DUMP OF ADIT HAS STRONGLY SILICIFIED LIMESTONE ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Deposit 15 SOUTH EXTENSION OF SIOUX AND UTAH MINES

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.

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.

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