Midland Mine

Past Producer in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Silver, Copper, Lead, Gold, Arsenic, 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. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10098474
MRDS ID M057019
Record type Site
Current site name Midland Mine
Alternate or previous names Copper Queen, Midnight Adit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.83501, 40.07604 (WGS84)
Elevation 1856
Relative position 7800 FEET SOUTH 57 WEST OF MONTEZUMA PEAK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Clifton(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wildcat Mountain(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Southern Great Salt Lake Desert(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt 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 Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 009S 018W 02 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • NE SE OF NE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Copper Primary
Lead Primary
Gold Tertiary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary
Molybdenum Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Jarosite Ore
Plumbojarosite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Gypsum Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Siderite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Sericitization

Analytical data

Result SAMPLE IN MIDNIGHT MINE ASSAYED TRACE OF GOLD, 2.8 02/TON AG, 0.5 PERCENT CU AND 1.0 PERCENT LEAD.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.83501, 40.07604

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range
Type of structure Local
Structure description East-West, Steeply Dipping Faults Cut Vein And Displace It For Distances As Great As 5 Ft.

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N23E
    Dip 32W
    Thickness 1.52M
    Length 188.98M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Clifton District

Land status

Ownership category State

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Floyd Meyers

Comments on the production information

  • SMALL SHIPMENTS WERE MADE IN 1916, 1918, 1919, WHICHAVERAGED 17.4 OZ/TON AG, 0.56 PERCENT CU AND 15.35 PERCENT PB.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 335.28M

Comments on the workings information

  • MIDNIGHT MINE HAS 660 FT OF DRIFTS, INCLINES AND CROSSCUTS, OTHER ADITS ARE 200 FT, 175 FT, 80 FT. 75 FT., 5 FT AND 3 FT. ALONG WITH NUMEROUS PROSPECT PITS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: THOMSON, 1973, MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE DEEP CREEKS: UGMS BULL. 9, P. 24-25

  • Deposit

    NOLAN, T.B., 1935, THE GOLD HILL MINING DISTRICT, UTAH: USGS PP. 177

  • Deposit

    THOMSON, K.C., 1973, MINERAL DEPOSITS TO THE DEEP CREEK MOUNTAINS TOOELE AND JUAB CO: UGMS BULL 99

  • Deposit

    1935 GEOLMAP NOLAN, PROF. PAPER 177

  • Deposit

    1973 RECON UTAH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL 99.

  • Production

    NOLAN, T.B., 1935, THE GOLD HILL MINING DISTRICT, UTAH: USGS PP. 177, P. 148

  • Reserve-Resource

    DOELLING, H.H., 1981, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURVEY

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1981 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-NOV-1993 Doelling, Hellmut H. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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