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Eureka Hill

Past Producer in Juab county in Utah, United States with commodities Silver, Lead, Copper, Gold, Barium-Barite, Zinc
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  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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10020821
MRDS ID DC14047
Record type Site
Current site name Eureka Hill
Related records 10275987

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.12329, 39.94828 (WGS84)
Elevation 1974
Relative position SW EDGE OF EUREKA TOWNSITE

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 003W 13 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Copper Secondary
Gold Secondary
Barium-Barite Critical Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Anglesite Ore
Barite Ore
Cerargyrite Ore
Enargite Ore
Limonite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Ore Is Almost Completely Oxidized

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.12329, 39.94828
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Beds Strike N 10 - 13 W, Dip 87 W. Fractures Trend N 35 W; Cross Breaks Trend North-Northeast, East-Northeast, N 30 - 35 E, 65 - 70 Nw.

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR PODLIKE MASSES
    Strike NORTH
    Dip 80 W
    Width 30.48M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 304.8M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fissures, Cross Breaks

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Tintic District

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 20750.78M

Comments on the workings information

  • IN 1919 , DEVELOPMENT CONSISTED OF A 1,520 FT SHAFT WITH 15 LEVELS AND OVER 11 MILES OF WORKINGS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN, W AND LOUGHLIN, GF, 1919 , GEOL & ORE DEP OF TINTIC MINING DIST: USGS PROF PAPER 107 , P. 192 - 197

  • Deposit

    TOWER, GW AND SMITH, GO, 1899 , GEOL & MIN IND OF TINTIC DIST: USGS 19TH ANN REPT, PT 3 - F, P. 727

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    HEYL, A. V., 1963 , OXIDIZED ZN DEPOSITS OF UTAH: USGS BULL. 1135 - B, P. 73 .

  • Deposit

    5) USGS MIN. RES. 1917 - 23 , 1927 - 30 .

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.

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