Beck Tunnel Number One Shaft

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10088444
MRDS ID DC12538
Record type Site
Current site name Beck Tunnel Number One Shaft

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.09746, 39.94106 (WGS84)
Elevation 2155
Relative position 6400 FT S 60 W OF BIG HILL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Utah(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Eureka(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Juab

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 010S 002W 20 SW OF NW Utah

Comments on the location information

  • ALONG RAILROAD GRADE, E. SIDE GODIVA MOUNTAIN LA REINE ADIT LIES BETWEEN ONE AND TWO SHAFTS, 220 FT ABOVE ROAD. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1977

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Zinc Critical Primary
Gold Secondary
Copper Secondary

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Quartz Latite
    Rock unit name Packard Quartz Latite
    Rock description Packard Quartz Latite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Deseret Limestone;Humbug Formation
    Rock description Deseret Limestone;Humbug Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) Ajax Dolomite and Opex Formation

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Fractures

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET

Controls for ore emplacement

  • North Trending Ore Run, Caverns

Comments on the geologic information

  • MAIN ORE SHOOT ALMOST HORIZONTAL, IN FLAT BEDS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Discovery year 1904
Discoverer Jesse Knight
Year of last production 1950

Mining district

District name Tintic District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Kennecott Copper Corp.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Amax Copper Mines, Subsidiary Of Amax, Inc.
    Home office Greenwich, Conn.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 91.44M

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFT 300 FT DEEP IN 1913; ORE ON 300 FT, LEVEL

Comments on development

  • BECAME PART OF TINTIC STANDARD CO. THROUGH COLORADO CONSOLIDATED CO., 1927.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MORRIS, H.T., AND LOVERING, T.S., 1979, GENERAL GEOLOGY AND MINES OF THE EAST TINTIC MINING DISTRICT, UTAH AND JUAB COUNTIES, UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 1024, 194 PP.

  • Deposit

    COOK, D.R., ED., 1957, GEOLOGY OF THE EAST TINTIC MOUNTAINS AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE TINTIC MINING DISTRICTS: UTAH GEOL. SOC. GUIDEBOOK, NO. 12, 183 P.

  • Deposit

    MORRIS, H.T., 1964, GEOLOGY OF THE EUREKA QUADRANGLE, UTAH AND JUAB COUNTIES, UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1142-K, P. K1-K29.

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN, WALDEMAR, AND LOUGHLIN, G.F., 1919, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE TINTIC MINING DISTRICT, UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 107, 276 PP.

  • Deposit

    MORRIS, H.T., 1968, ORE DEPOSITS OF THE MAIN TINTIC DISTRICT, UTAH, IN J.D. RIDGE, ED., GRATON SALES VOL II, AIME.

  • Deposit

    SALT LAKE MINING REVIEW, JUNE 30, 1913.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DOWN DIP CONTINUATION OF HUMBUG ORE
Deposit A SUBSTANTIAL DISCOVERY AT THE TIME ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1983 James, Laurence P. Utah Geological and Mineral Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

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