Carisa Workings

Occurrence in Juab county in Utah, United States with commodities Copper, Silver, Gold, Cadmium, 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. 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 10095617
MRDS ID M058538
Record type Site
Current site name Carisa Workings
Alternate or previous names Empire Mines Co., Carisa Tunnel

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.09051, 39.92717 (WGS84)
Elevation 2313
Relative position 1700 FT S 17 E OF MAMMOTH PEAK

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 010S ;002W 30 SE OF NE Utah

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION IS SHAFT; ADIT LIES DUE SOUTH IN GULCH AND IS REACHED BY WAGON ROAD TO DUMP. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1977

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Primary
Gold Primary
Cadmium Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • LIKELY PRODUCED, JUDGING FROM DUMPS, ETC.

Alteration

  • (Local) Argillization, Contact Metamorphism

Analytical data

Result 4.5% CU, 20 OZ AG, 0.01 OZ/TON AU REPORTED IN 1918

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Rock unit name Silver City Stock
    Rock description Silver City Stock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Silurian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Silurian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Blue Bell Dolomite
    Rock description Blue Bell Dolomite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.09051, 39.92717

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Veins

Ore body information

  • General form OTHER GOSSAN

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Veins

Comments on the geologic information

  • DEPOSITS LIE BETWEEN LIMESTONE AND QUARTZITIC UNITS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1875

Mining district

District name Tintic District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Anaconda Co.
    Home office New York, N.Y.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 304.8M

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFT, ADIT, PROSPECTS.

Comments on development

  • COPPER HANDBOOK 1908 COMMENTED ON STYLE OF EXPLORATION: "STOCK WAS RIGGED UNMERCIFULLY IN 1906. MINE APPARENTLY OF SOMEVALUE BUT COMPANY NOT REGARDED FAVORABLY"

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

    STEVENS, H.J., 1908, COPPER HANDBOOK, VOL. VIII PG. 486.

  • Deposit

    WEED, W.H., 1918, MINES HANDBOOK, VOL. XIII PG. 1407.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Discovery Year: 1870S
Deposit SAME VEIN AS NORTHERN SPY, APPARENTLY TO WEST.
Deposit DUMP OF ADIT HAS STRONGLY SILICIFIED LIMESTONE ; 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:

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.