Crystal Cave

Occurrence in Box Elder county in Utah, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, Zinc, Limestone, General
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. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10088421
MRDS ID DB02038
Record type Site
Current site name Crystal Cave
Related records 10203044

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.02392, 41.28436 (WGS84)
Elevation 1844
Relative position ON WEST SLOPE OF PILOT RANGE, AROUND CRYSTAL CAVE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Box Elder(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tecoma(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wells(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Wells(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Pilot-Thousand Springs, Nevada, Utah(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt 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 Box Elder

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 007N 019W 33 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • MOSTLY SENE SEC 33

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Tertiary
Silver Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary
Limestone, General Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Calcite Ore
Hemimorphite Ore
Barite Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Limonitization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Guilmette Formation
    Rock description Guilmette Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Devonian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Devonian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.02392, 41.28436

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fissures

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Lucin Mining District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 320.04M

Comments on the workings information

  • MANY SHORT ADITS AND INCLINES; ONE LONG EXPLORATORY TUNNEL

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BLUE, D. M., 1960 , GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE LUCIN MINING DISTRICT, BOX ELDER COUNTY, UTAH AND ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA: UNIV. OF UTAH MS THESIS.

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, H. H., IN PREPARATION, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF BOX ELDER COUNTY, UTAH: UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY BULLETIN.

  • Deposit

    1973 MINEMAP UTAH GEOL & MINERAL SURVE

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SEVERAL SCATTERED VEINS, LIMESTONE CAVE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1979 Doelling, Hellmut H. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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