Lulu Shaft

Occurrence in Beaver county in Utah, United States with commodity Lead
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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10090816
MRDS ID D005997
Record type Site
Current site name Lulu Shaft
Alternate or previous names Van Cott Tunnel
Related records 10130402

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.2747, 38.44607 (WGS84)
Elevation 1792
Relative position 1 1/2 MILES SW OF FRISCO TOWN SITE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Beaver(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Frisco(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wah Wah Mountains South(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Sevier Lake(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier 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 Beaver

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 027S 013W 23 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS NE 1/4 SE 1/4 SE 1/4
  • SW 1/4 NW 1/4 SE 1/4; SECTION 23.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Tertiary

Alteration

  • (Local) Silification, Argillization, Pyrite

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range
Type of structure Local
Structure description Horn Silver (N-S) Fault

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Frisco

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 213.36M

Comments on the workings information

  • NO WORKINGS, JUST AN OUTCROP OF THE PARK CITY FM.

Comments on development

  • SHAFT SUNK ON ASSUMPTION OF FINDING SOUTHERN EXTENSION OF HORN SILVER FAULT VEIN

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    STRINGHAM, B, 1967, HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION NEAR HORN SILVER MINE, BEAVER COUNTY, UTAH: UGMS SS #16

  • Deposit

    EVERTS, M L, AND KRUPICKA, D C; 1979, UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY; ON-SITE INVESTIGATION.

  • Deposit

    1913 RECON BUTLER, B S USGS PP #80

  • Deposit

    1920 RECON BUTLER, B S USGS PP #111

  • Deposit

    1967 RECON SEE REF #1

  • Production

    EVERTS, M L, 1979, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UT GEOL AND MIN SUR

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE VAN COTT TUNNEL IS INCLUDED WITH THE LULU SHAFT FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONVEINENCE AS IT PRODUCED NO ORE EITHER. IT IS LOCATED 200 M SW OF THE LULU
Deposit THE LULU SHAFT WAS APPARENTLY SUNK TO EXPLORE THE HORN SILVER FAULT TOWARD THE SOUTH.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1979 Everts, Michael L. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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

External references