Head of Regulator Canyon

Past Producer in Box Elder county in Utah, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, Zinc
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 10088425
MRDS ID DB02047
Record type Site
Current site name Head of Regulator Canyon
Related records 10275851

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.01947, 41.25159 (WGS84)
Elevation 1878
Relative position ON WEST SLOPE OF COPPER MOUNTAIN AND HEAD OF REGULATOR CANYON

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 006N 019W 09,10 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS SE SE 9 AND SW SW 10

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Hemimorphite Ore
Smithsonite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Clay Gangue
Limonite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Limonitization, Argillitization

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) -114.01947, 41.25159

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR - SHEET-LIKE
    Strike NORTH
    Dip 22 DEG E
    Thickness 0.2M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fissures, Bedding Planes, Favorable Horizons

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Lucin Mining District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • SMALL QUANTITIES OF ORE REMAIN IN MINES

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 297.18M

Comments on the workings information

  • 2 ADITS, ONE SHALLOW SHAFT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, H. H., IN PREPARATION, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF BOX ELDER CO., UTAH: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY BULL.

  • Deposit

    1973 MINEMAP UTAH GEOL & MINERAL SURVE

  • Reserve-Resource

    DOELLING, H. H., 1979 , UTAH GEOL. AND MINERALOG. SURVEY ON-SITE INVESTIGATION

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SCATTERED DEPOSITS, SMALL ORE BODIES. DIP VARIES 22 TO 30 DEG E

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.