Tintic Central Shaft

Occurrence in Juab county in Utah, United States with commodities Silver, Lead
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. 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 10020096
MRDS ID DC12554
Record type Site
Current site name Tintic Central Shaft

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.09468, 39.92551 (WGS84)
Elevation 2167
Relative position 3200 FT S 40 E FROM MAMMOTH 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 29 NE OF SW Utah

Comments on the location information

  • ALONG OLD RAILROAD, JUST BELOW GRADE ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1977

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Tertiary
Lead Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Silurian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.09468, 39.92551

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Depth to top 800M
    Depth to bottom 1000M

Comments on the geologic information

  • ORE FOUND IN FISSURE ON 870 LEVEL. DUMP INDICATES SEDIMENTS WERE FOUND BENEATH IGNEOUS ROCKS; N30A IS UNKNOWN

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1907
Year of last production 1920

Mining district

District name Tintic District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Tintic Central Mining And Milling Co.
    First year 1920
  • Type Owner
    Owner Anaconda Co.
    Home office New York, N.Y.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 609.6M
    Overall depth 316.38M
    Overall length 609.6M

Comments on the workings information

  • VERTICAL SHAFT; LEVELS AT 870,920,1020 AND WORKINGS FROM 1700 LEVEL OF IRON BLOSSOM MINE. SHAFT BULLDOZED SHUT BY ANACONDA, 1979

Comments on development

  • WORK CEASED WHEN JESSE KNIGHT INTERESTS BOUGHT CONTROL

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

    WEED W.H., 1918, THE MINES HANDBOOK: NEW YORK, P. 1420.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit PROSPECT HOPED TO FIND EXTENSION OF RICH IRON BLOSSOM MINE ORES
Deposit STOCK COMPANY DID WORK ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

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.

External references