Trout Creek Mine

Past Producer in Juab county in Utah, United States with commodities Tungsten, Zinc, Beryllium, Iron
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. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10087494
MRDS ID D007554
Record type Site
Current site name Trout Creek Mine
Related records 10299941

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.88584, 39.75105 (WGS84)
Elevation 2079
Relative position 1 MILE NW OF BOBCAT RANCH

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Juab(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ibapah Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Fish Springs(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Delta(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Southern Great Salt Lake Desert(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Juab

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 012S 018W 28 SW OF NE OF NW Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Zinc Critical Primary
Beryllium Critical Tertiary
Iron Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Psilomelane Ore
Scheelite Ore
Limonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Iron Oxidation

Analytical data

Result ZN FROM TRACE TO 42%, AVERAGE 10% WO3 FROM TRACE TO 13.02%, AVERAGE .8%

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Ibapah Stock
    Rock description Ibapah Stock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Marble
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
    Rock unit name Trout Creek Formation
    Rock description Trout Creek Formation

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range
Type of structure Local
Structure description Local Faulting

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Thickness 0.91M
    Length 243.84M
    Width 15.24M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 152.4M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fractures

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Spring Creek Area

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Harold B. Stafford
    Home office Salt Lake City, Ut.

Comments on the production information

  • PROD. FIGURES UNKNOWN

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 213.36M
    Overall depth 126.49M
    Overall length 30.48M
    Overall width 6.1M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A 450 FT. INCLINE SHAFT WITH LEVELS AT THE 60, 120, 180, AND 415 FT. LEVELS, SOME CROSS-CUTS AND DRIFTS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: THOMSON, K.C., 1973, UT. GEOL. & MIN. SURV. BULL. 99

  • Deposit

    THOMPSON, K.C., 1973, MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE DEEP CREEK MTNS, TOOELE-JUAB COUNTIES, UT: UTAH GEOL & MIN. SURVEY BULL. 99

  • Deposit

    BICK, R.F., 1958, STRATIGRAPHY OF DEEP CREEK MTNS, UT: AAPG BULL. V. 43, P. 1064-1069.

  • Deposit

    BICK, R.F., 1959, GEOLOGY OF THE DEEP CREEK QUAD, WESTERN, UT: NEW HAVEN, CONN., UNIV., UNPUBL. PH. D. DISSERTATION.

  • Deposit

    BICK, R.F., 1966, GEOL. OF THE DEEP CREEK MTNS., UT: UTAH GEOL. & MIN. SURVEY BULL. 77, 120 P.

  • Deposit

    1920 RECON BUTLER, B.S., USGS PP 111

  • Deposit

    1966 GEOLMAP UT. GEOL. & M. SURVEY BULL. 77

  • Deposit

    1977 RECON UT. GEOL. & M. SURVEY RI #117

  • Deposit

    REPORT ON THE DEEP CREEK WILDERNESS WITHDRAWAL AREA AS (WSA) BY BLM, 1979; PERRY, L.I., 1976, LEAD & ZINC IN UTAH: UT. GEOL. & MIN. SURVEY SS #22

  • Deposit

    1979 GEOCHEM DOE GJBX-8 (80) LAWRENCE LIVERMORE LAB.

  • Production

    EVERTS, M.L., 1980, UT. GEOL. AND MIN. SURVEY, ON SITE INVESTIGATION

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1980 Everts, Michael L. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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