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Montello Tunnel

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10102094
MRDS ID DC13314
Record type Site
Current site name Montello Tunnel
Alternate or previous names Cunepah Mine - Lower

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.02642, 41.19603 (WGS84)
Elevation 2010

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Box Elder(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Patterson Pass(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wells(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Wells(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Pilot-Thousand Springs, Nevada, Utah(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Box Elder

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 006N 019W 33 SW OF NE Utah

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION IS CALLED THE LOWER WORKINGS OF THE NORTH SIDE OF PATTERSON PASS CANYON BY DOELLING.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Anglesite Ore
Galena Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Guilmette Formation
    Rock description Guilmette Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Devonian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.02642, 41.19603
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Guilmette Formation Strikes Ne, Dip 30-45se.

Ore body information

  • Length 60.96M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Production years 1917

Mining district

District name Lucin District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • NO RESERVES

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 609.6M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF ONE ADIT, THREE SHALLOW PITS, AND TWO SHORT ADITS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PERRY,L.I. & MCCARTHY,B.M., 1977, LEAD AND ZINC IN UTAH: UTAH GEOL. & MIN. SURV., ECON. GEOL. SECT., OPEN-FILE REPT. NO. 22, P. 122.

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, H.H., 1980, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF BOX ELDER CO., UTAH: UGMS BULL. 115, P. 90.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1974 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1982 Wong, George (Tooker, Ed) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-OCT-1992 Spanski, Gregory T. U.S. Geological Survey

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