Picnic Mine

Past Producer in Juab county in Utah, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, 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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10020456
MRDS ID DC13276
Record type Site
Current site name Picnic Mine
Alternate or previous names Park Adit, Swansea Group
Related records 10155314

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.13162, 39.91217 (WGS84)
Elevation 1878
Relative position 3700 FT. N. OF SILVER CITY CEMETERY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Juab(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tintic Junction(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 003W 36 SW OF SE OF NW Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Primary
Lead Primary

Analytical data

Result 8.5 OZ. AU PER TON, 27 OZ. AG PER TON, 3.3 PERCENT CCU, 1.5 PERCENT PB

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.13162, 39.91217

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Wasatch Front
Type of structure Local
Structure description Tintic Syncline

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N-S
    Dip 60W

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Main Tintic Mining District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • ORE SHAFT; PARK ADIT IS 550 FT. SE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: COOK, D.R., 1957, GEOL. EAST TINTIC MTN.: UTAH GEOL . SOC. GUIDE BOOK NO. 12

  • Deposit

    MORRIS, H.T., (ED.), 1964. GEOL. OF THE TINTIC JUNCTION QUADRANGLE, TOOELE, JUAB AND UTAH CO., UT.: U.S.G.S. BULL. 1142-L

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN, W. AND LOUGHLIN, G.F., 1919. GEOL. AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE TINTIC MINING DISTRICT: U.S.G.S. PROF. PA. 107.

  • Deposit

    TRIPP, B.T., 1981. ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURVEY.

  • Deposit

    1964 GEOLMAP MORRIS, H.T. BULL. 1142-

  • Production

    COOK, D.R., (ED.) 1957. GEOL. OF THE E. TINTIC MTNS.: UTAH GEOL. SOC. GUIDEBOOK NO. 12

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSIT IS SPUR VEIN FROM SWANSEA VEIN WHICH BRANCHES OFF OF MAIN VEIN AT 600 FT. LEVEL

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1981 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1994 Tripp, Bryce T. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references