Boston & Tintic

Past Producer in Juab county in Utah, United States with commodities Silver, Lead, 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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10020239
MRDS ID DC12850
Record type Site
Current site name Boston & Tintic

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.1169, 39.91467 (WGS84)
Elevation 2012
Relative position ONE MILE S-SE OF MAMMOTH CITY

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 31 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Copper Secondary

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.1169, 39.91467

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N 75 E
    Dip 75 N

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Tintic District

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    MORRIS, HT, 1964 , GEOL OF THE EUREKA QUAD: USGS BULL 1142 - K, PL. 1

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 04-12-1971

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1974 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAR-1982 Wong, George (Morris, H.T.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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