Eureka Bullion Shaft

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10042206
MRDS ID M058591
Record type Site
Current site name Eureka Bullion Shaft
Alternate or previous names Grutli

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.07273, 39.95467 (WGS84)
Elevation 1892
Relative position 1400 FT N 60 E OF BIG HILL

Site location context

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)

Utah Lake(hydrologic unit)

Jordan(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Utah

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 010S 002W 16 NE OF SW Utah

Comments on the location information

  • HILLS EAST OF EUREKA; SOUTH OF HIGHWAY ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1977

Commodities

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

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Enargite Ore
Galena Ore
Pyrite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore
Barite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Argillization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Quartz Latite
    Rock unit name Packard Quartz Latite
    Rock description Packard Quartz Latite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Ajax Dolomite; Herkimer Limestone
    Rock description Ajax Dolomite;Herkimer Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.07273, 39.95467

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Fissures Breccia

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Comments on the geologic information

  • N55A IS A PEBBLE DIKE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1909
Year of first production 1919
Year of last production 1935

Mining district

District name Tintic District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner North Lily Mining Co.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Anaconda Co.
    Home office New York, N.Y.

Comments on the workings information

  • GRUTLI ADIT EXTENDS 85 FT N FROM SHAFT COLLAR. LATE DEVELOPMENT FROM NORTH LILY SHAFT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    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.

  • Deposit

    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.

  • Deposit

    MORRIS, H.T., 1964, GEOLOGY OF THE EUREKA QUADRANGLE, UTAH AND JUAB COUNTIES, UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1142-K, P. K1-K29.

  • Deposit

    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.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit EXTENSION OF NORTH LILY AND TINTIC BULLION ORES

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1983 James, Laurence P. Utah Geological and Mineral Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.

External references