Lucky Shepard Mine

Past Producer in Juab county in Utah, United States with commodities Copper, Silver, Lead, Gold
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. 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. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10055182
MRDS ID RE00244
Record type Site
Current site name Lucky Shepard Mine
Related records 10130047

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.54247, 39.83578 (WGS84)
Elevation 1676
Relative position LOCATED IN THE ALISON KNOLLS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Juab(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Desert Mountain Pass(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

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management UT)

Bureau of Land Management UT BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Juab

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 011S 006W 29 SW OF SE Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Limonite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Quartz Monzonite;
    Rock description Quartz Monzonite;
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Lake Bonneville Formation
    Rock description Lake Bonneville Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.54247, 39.83578

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Deep Creek-Tintic District Mineral Belt
Type of structure Local
Structure description North Trending Faults & Fractures

Ore body information

  • General form POD-LIKE

Controls for ore emplacement

  • North-Trending Fractures

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1915
Year of first production 1916

Mining district

District name Desert Mountain Area

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 182.88M
    Overall depth 38.71M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF 2 SHORT ADITS AND 2 SHALLOW SHAFTS.
  • Workings length measured in 1916

Comments on development

  • BUTLER, IN 1920, REPORTED ON HIS RECONNAISSANCE WORK. THE UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY CONDUCTED MAPPING AND GEOPHYSICAL WORK IN 1973.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    REES, D.C., ERICKSON, M.P., AND WHELAN, J.A., 1973, GEOLOGY AND DIATREMES OF DESERT MOUNTAIN, UTAH: UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY SPECIAL STUDY 42.

  • Deposit

    BUTLER, B.S., 1920, ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 111.

  • Deposit

    CALKINS, W.G., 1972, MAGNETIC AND GRAVITY STUDY OF DESERT MOUNTAIN, JUAB COUNTY, UTAH: UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY BULLETIN 95.

  • Production

    EVERTS, M.L., 1980, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEO. AND MIN. SUR.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit H.J. HASSELL VISITED THE MINE IN THE 1930'S AND OBSERVED LEAD-SILVER ORE IN PLACE. AFTER WWII HE REVISITED THE MINE AND THE ORE WAS GONE, INDICATING SOME PRODUCTION FROM THE MINE ; INFO.SRC : 3 FIELD OBSERV

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1980 Everts, Mike L. Utah Geological and Mineral Survey

Beyond USGS

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