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Sultana Mine

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10055178
MRDS ID RE00230
Record type Site
Current site name Sultana Mine
Related records 10055161, 10108893

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.5208, 39.9755 (WGS84)
Elevation 2478
Relative position IN THE HEAD OF N. OAK BRUSH CANYON

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)

Federal lands

Uinta-Wasatch-Cache 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 Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 10S 6W 4,9 N2 OF NE (09) Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Zinc Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Specularite Gangue

Analytical data

Result 1912 ASSAY OF VEIN MATERIAL: 60 CENTS AU PER TON, 5 OZ. AG PER TON, 48% PB, 28% GR

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Slate
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Sheeprock Series Of Cohenour (1959);
    Rock description Sheeprock Series Of Cohenour (1959);
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Till

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.5208, 39.9755
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Width 1.22M
  • General form TABULAR

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Columbia District

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Micah Mines Inc.
  • Type Owner
    Owner New Sultana Mining Co.

Comments on the production information

  • LIMITED PRODUCTION, RECORDED WITH OTHER PROPERTIES IN 1913, 1915, AND 1916. TWO CARS OF ZN ORE WERE SHIPPED TO THE BAVER MILL BY JOSEPH MARSHALL IN 1946

Comments on the workings information

  • AT LEAST FOUR ADITS, OF WHICH THE WESTERN AND EASTERN ARE CAVED. AN ADIT WITHIN 250-300 FT. OF THE PRINCIPAL ADIT IS ALSO CAVED. THE PRINCIPAL ADIT AGGREGATES ABOUT 300 FT. OF WORKINGS. PITS AND CUTS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THE ADITS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    COHENOUR, R.E., 1959, SHEEPROCK MOUNTAINS, TOOELE AND JUAB COUNTIES: UGMS BULL. 63. P. 115-116

  • Deposit

    MESSENGER, H.M. III, 1981, ON-SITE INVESTIGATION: UGMS

  • Deposit

    HEIKES, V.C., 1920, IN BUTLER, B.S., AND OTHERS, ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH: USGS PROF. PAPER III, P.429

  • Production

    USGS MIN. RES. OF U.S., 1913, 1915, 1916; USBM MINERALS YEARBOOK, 1946

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit GALENA-SPECULARITE-PYRITE-QUARTZ VEINS IN QUARTZITE, SLATE AND TILLITE

Reporter information

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

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