Corner Canyon Mine

Past Producer in Box Elder county in Utah, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Workings at the site
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10020483
MRDS ID DC13351
Record type Site
Current site name Corner Canyon Mine
Alternate or previous names Little May Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.53364, 41.85408 (WGS84)
Elevation 2036
Relative position IN THE RIGHT FORK OF CORNER CANYON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Box Elder(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Dennis Hill(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Grouse Creek(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Brigham City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Northern Great Salt Lake Desert(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Sawtooth National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Box Elder

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 013N 015W 14 NE OF NE Utah

Commodities

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

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Galena Gangue
Goethite Gangue
Hematite Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Malachite Gangue

Analytical data

Result FOUR SAMPLES ASSAYED 0.04 - 1.11 OZ/TON AU, 0.65 - 4.06 OZ/TON AG, 0.023 - 0.11 % CU, 1.09 - 8.4 % PB, 0.068 - 0.072 % ZN.

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.53364, 41.85408

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Production years 1933

Mining district

District name Park Valley District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 487.68M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF TWO ADITS AND A RAISE.

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. 134.

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 03-15-1963

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1974 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-SEP-1982 Wong, George (Tooker, Ed) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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