Empire Mine

Past Producer in Box Elder county in Utah, United States with commodities Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Gold, Molybdenum
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. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Reserves and resources
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10020469
MRDS ID DC13312
Record type Site
Current site name Empire Mine
Alternate or previous names Tecoma Hill No. 18 Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.03308, 41.24714 (WGS84)
Elevation 2015
Relative position ON THE NORTH SIDE OF REGULATOR CANYON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Box Elder(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Patterson Pass(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wells(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Wells(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Pilot-Thousand Springs, Nevada, Utah(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management UT)

Bureau of Land Management UT BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Box Elder

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 006N 019W 09 SE OF SW OF SW Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Secondary
Copper Secondary
Gold Tertiary
Molybdenum Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Anglesite Ore
Galena Ore
Hematite Ore
Limonite Ore
Smithsonite Ore
Wulfenite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result A CHIP SAMPLE CONTAIN 0.085 OZ/TON AU, 8.5 OZ/TON AG, 9.7 % PB, 1.1 % ZN, 0.126 % CU, 3.81 % MO.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Laketown Dolomite
    Rock description Laketown Dolomite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Silurian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Silurian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.03308, 41.24714

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Along A Fissure

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Lucin District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the production information

  • A FEW HUNDRED TONS OF SILVER-LEAD ORE WERE PRODUCED.

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1977
    Total resources 9000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Silver Ag 141.178 g/mt Silver Major 1977
    Lead Pb 10 wt-pct Lead Major 1977
    Zinc Zn 0.5 wt-pct Zinc Minor 1977
    Copper Cu 0.05 wt-pct Copper Minor 1977

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF AN ADIT AND A WINZE WITH TWO LEVELS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PERRY,L.I. & MCCARTHY,B.M., 1977, LEAD AND ZINC IN UTAH: UTAH GEOL. & MIN. SURV., ECON. GEOL. SECT., OPEN-FILE REPT. NO. 22, P. 110-112.

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 06-09-1971

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1974 Unknown Conservation Division, USGS (no longer exists)
Updater 01-AUG-1982 Wong, George (Tooker, Ed) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-OCT-1992 Spanski, Gregory T. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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