Kennecott Drill Holes

Occurrence in Juab county in Utah, United States with commodities Copper, Molybdenum
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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  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 10095623
MRDS ID M058574
Record type Site
Current site name Kennecott Drill Holes
Alternate or previous names Southwest Tintic Project

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.11412, 39.87856 (WGS84)
Elevation 1829
Relative position 7200 FT. S 27 W FROM 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)

Federal lands

BLM Administrative Area(land status)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Juab

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 011S 003W;002W 12;07;13;18 SE (12); SW (07); E2 (13); SW (18) Utah

Comments on the location information

  • DISTANCE MEASURED TO HOLE SWT-16; HOLES SCATTERED ACROSS FLATS NEARDIAMOND GULCH ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1977

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Molybdenum Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcocite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Epidote Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Argillization Silicification

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Rock unit name Sunrise Peak Stock
    Rock description Sunrise Peak Stock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
    Rock unit name Sunrise Peak Stock
    Rock description Sunrise Peak Stock

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.11412, 39.87856

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOLOGY FROM CHIPS FROM HOLES SWT-19 AND SWT-33 FOUND AT SITES, NOT LOCATED ON MAP, TO SOUTH; N 55 A IS A RHYELITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1945
Discoverer Kennecott Copper Corp - Rudy Gebhart - Long Year Co

Mining district

District name Tintic District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Kennecott Copper Corp.
    Home office Salt Lake City, Ut.
  • Type Owner
    Owner S. M. Hansen And Associates

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 914.4M

Comments on the workings information

  • DRILL HOLES. TAG MARKED 3042 FOUND AT ONE SITE

Comments on development

  • SOME OF THE DRILL HOLES FOUND MINERALIZATION

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

    HANSEN, S.M., PENCILED MAP OF DRILL HOLES, UNPUBLISHED DOCUMENT IN THE WRITER'S FILES

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEEP HOLES BELIEVED TO BE +3000 FEET, WITH BEST MINERALIZATION AT THOSE DEPTHS AND LOW GRADE
Deposit POOR OUTCROP IN MAP AREA ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
Deposit Discovery Year: 1940S

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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