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Copper Jack Mine

Past Producer in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Copper, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite, Uranium, Manganese
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10055150
MRDS ID RE00168
Record type Site
Current site name Copper Jack Mine
Alternate or previous names Copper Jack Group
Related records 10021245, 10276535

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.50941, 39.91077 (WGS84)
Elevation 1876
Relative position AT THE MOUTH OF BURNED CANYON, ON THE NORTH SIDE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Erickson Knoll(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 Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 10S 6W 34 NE4 OF SW Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Secondary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Secondary
Uranium Secondary
Manganese Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Chrysocolla Ore
Fluorite Ore
Malachite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Turquoise Ore
Uraninite Ore
Quartz Gangue
Specularite Gangue

Analytical data

Result THE PRINCIPAL VEIN IS APPROX. 3 FT. IN WIDTH, AVERAGING 6% CU
Result ONE 100 FT SECTION AVERAGES 7 TO 8%, INCLUDING SOME 20 TO 30% ORE. SILVER VALUES RANGE FROM 1 TO 7 OZ. PER TON

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.50941, 39.91077
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range
Type of structure Local
Structure description South Flank Fault Of Sheeprock Mountains Striking Approx. N45w.

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR, LENTICULAR
    Strike N30W
    Dip 50 SW
    Width 0.91M
  • General form TABULAR, LENTICULAR
    Dip 50 SW

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Nw Striking Joints And Faults

Comments on the geologic information

  • URANINITE HAS NOT BEEN POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED, BUT IS BELIEVED TO OCCUR IN DARK PURPLE, RADIOACTIVE FLUORITE PRESENT IN THE VEINS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1908

Mining district

District name Columbia District

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner John Gary Ekker, Jr.

Comments on the production information

  • SMALL AMOUNT OF PRODUCTION, RECORDED WITH OTHER PROPERTIES

Comments on the workings information

  • THE PRINCIPAL WORKING IS A 140 FT. DEEP, VERTICAL SHAFT. ANOTHER VERTICAL SHAFT IS APPROX. 1200 TO 1300 FT. NORTHWEST OF THE COPPER JACK SHAFT, NEARLY ON THE EAST BANK OF THE STREAM BED IN SHEEPROCK CANYON. A 38 FT. DEEP, 66 DEGREE INCLINED SHAFT IS APPROX. 500 FT EAST OF THIS SHAFT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, 1982, MINERAL SURVEY NO. 5948, UTAH STATE OFFICE, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH

  • Deposit

    COHENOUR, R.E., 1963, BERYLLIUM AND ASSOC. MINERALIZATION IN THE SHEEPROCK MOUNTAINS, TOOELE AND JUAB COS., IN BOWYER, BEN, AND OTHERS, BERYLLIUM AND URANIUM MINERALIZATION IN WESTERN JUAB COUNTY, UTAH: GUIDEBOOK TO THE GEOLOGY OF UTAH, NO. 17, UTAH GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH

  • Deposit

    COHENOUR, R.E., 1959, SHEEPROCK MOUNTAINS, TOOELE AND JUAB COS.: UGMS BULL. 63, P. 117

  • Deposit

    HARRIS, DEVERLE, 1958, THE GEOLOGY OF THE DUTCH PEAK AREA, SHEEPROCK RANGE, TOOELE COUNTY, UTAH: UNPUBL. M.S. THESIS, BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIV., PROVO, UTAH; REF. 5 LOUGHLIN, G.F., 1920, IN BUTLER, B.S., AND OTHERS, ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH: USGS PROF. PAPER III, P. 428-429; REF. 6 USGS, 1929, MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE U.S., P. 632; REF. 7 USGS, 1930, MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE U.S., P. 606

  • Production

    USGS, 1929, MIN. RES. OF U.S., P. 632

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ACCORDING TO COHENOUR (1959, P. 117; 1963, P. 12), RADIOACTIVITY INDICATING AN ESTIMATED U3O8 CONTENT EXCEEDING 0.15%, IS PRESENT IN SOME FLUORITE-RICH SAMPLES FROM VEINS NEAR THE COPPER JACK SHAFT ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
Deposit THE COPPER JACK VEIN IS ONE OF FOUR VEINS THAT STRIKE ACROSS THE FLYING DUTCHMAN AND COPPER JACK PROPERTIES. TWO NEARLY ADJACENT MINES, DEVELOPED TOGETHER ON A 10-CLAIM PATENTED BLOCK OF LAND ORIGINALLY HELD BY COPPER JACK MINING AND MILLING COMPANY

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1982 Messenger, Harold M. III Utah Geological and Mineral Survey

Beyond USGS

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