| Deposit ID | 10020835 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | DC14068 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Yankee Consolidated Mine |
| Alternate or previous names | Mountain View Lake View and Yankee Mines, Uncle Sam |
| Geographic coordinates: | -112.09718, 39.94828 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Elevation | 2160 |
| Relative position | 2200 FT S 23 E OF KNIGHVILLE |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Utah(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)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Utah | Utah |
| Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salt Lake | 010S | 002W | 17 | SW OF SW | Utah |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Silver | Primary |
| Lead | Primary |
| Copper | Primary |
| Zinc Critical | Tertiary |
| Gold | Tertiary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Quartz | Gangue |
| Host or associated | Associated | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Latite | ||||||||
| Rock unit name | Packard Quartz Latite | ||||||||
| Rock description | Packard Quartz Latite | ||||||||
| |||||||||
| Host or associated | Host |
|---|---|
| Rock type | Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone |
| Rock unit name | Deseret Limestone |
| Rock description | Deseret Limestone |
| (1) | -112.09718, 39.94828 |
|---|
| General form | BLANKET |
|---|---|
| Strike | N |
| Dip | 30 |
| Length | 304.8M |
| Width | 15.24M |
| Depth to top | 91.44M |
| Depth to bottom | 182.88M |
| Development status | Past Producer |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Deposit size | Small |
| Significant | No |
| Discovery year | 1895 |
| District name | Tintic District |
|---|
| Ownership category | Private |
|---|
| Type | Operator |
|---|---|
| Owner | Kennecott Copper Corp. |
| Type | Owner |
|---|---|
| Owner | Amax Copper Mines, Subsidiary Of Amax, Inc. |
| Home office | Greenwich, Conn. |
| Type of workings | Underground |
|---|---|
| Length | 8046.5M |
| Overall depth | 609.6M |
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | DC14068 |
MORRIS, H.T., AND LOVERING, T.S., 1979, GENERAL GEOLOGY AND MINES OF THE EAST TINTIC MINING DISTRICT, UTAH AND JUAB COUNTIES, UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 1024, 194 PP.
COOK, D.R., ED., 1957, GEOLOGY OF THE EAST TINTIC MOUNTAINS AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE TINTIC MINING DISTRICTS: UTAH GEOL. SOC. GUIDEBOOK, NO. 12, 183 P.
MORRIS, H.T., 1964, GEOLOGY OF THE EUREKA QUADRANGLE, UTAH AND JUAB COUNTIES, UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1142-K, P. K1-K29.
LINDGREN, WALDEMAR, AND LOUGHLIN, G.F., 1919, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE TINTIC MINING DISTRICT, UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 107, 276 PP.
MORRIS, H.T., 1968, THE MAIN TINTIC MINING DISTRICT: IN RIDGE, J., ED., GRATON SALES VOLUME A.I.M.E., P 1060.
MINES REGISTER, 1937 EDITION, NEWYORK, MINES PUBLICATIONS, NEW YORK.
HEYL, A., 1963, OXIDIZED ZINC DEPOSITS OF THE U.S., PART 2, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 1135-B.
MINES REGISTER 1937 P 81
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | Discovery Year: 1890S |
| Deposit | YANKEE FISSURE AND MANY FRACTURES INFLUENCE ORE |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 01-NOV-1983 | James, Laurence P. | Utah Geological and Mineral Survey |
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