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Butcher Boy Prospect

Past Producer in Juab county in Utah, United States with commodities Silver, Lead, Copper
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  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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10088984
MRDS ID RE00191
Record type Site
Current site name Butcher Boy Prospect
Alternate or previous names Bowers Extension

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.09496, 39.88662 (WGS84)
Elevation 1966
Relative position 5100 FT. S 40 E OF TREASURE HILL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Juab(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 11S 2W 08 SE OF NW Utah

Comments on the location information

  • JUST NORTH OF DIAMOND TOWNSITE ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1977)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Copper Secondary

Comments on the commodity information

  • REPORTED $7000 FROM GRASSROOTS, 1870S, IN ONE DYNAMITE BOX

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Clays

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.09496, 39.88662
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description North-Trending Fissures

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Comments on the geologic information

  • VEINS PROJECT BENEATH COVER TO SW; N50A IS UNKNOWN

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1875
Discoverer Joe Taylor
Year of last production 1900

Mining district

District name Tintic District District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 60.96M
    Overall length 152.4M

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFT

Comments on development

  • RICHNESS OBVIOISLY EXAGGERATED

Reference information

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Discovery Year: 1870S
Deposit LITTLE INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE

Reporter information

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

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