Dutchman Mine

Producer in Utah county in Utah, United States with commodities Silver, Lead, Zinc, Gold
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. 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. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10108900
MRDS ID DC15608
Record type Site
Current site name Dutchman Mine
Alternate or previous names Wild Dutchman

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.603, 40.52855 (WGS84)
Elevation 2332
Relative position 1.5 MI SE OF MILLER HILL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Utah(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Brighton(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Salt Lake City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Salt Lake City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Utah Lake(hydrologic unit)

Jordan(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Utah

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 003S 003E 27,28 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Secondary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Ore
Galena Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Shale Gangue

Analytical data

Result 1885 : 45 OZ AG, 40 % PB. 1912 : 30 % PB, 9 - 17 % ZN, 50 OZ AG PER TON. 1941 : 16 OZ AG, 13 % PB, 34 % ZN, 0.02 OZ AU.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.603, 40.52855

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Dutchman Fault, Whirlwind Fault

Ore body information

  • Strike N 40 E
    Dip 40 SE
    Width 12.19M
    Depth to top 6.1M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1872

Mining district

District name American Fork District

Comments on the production information

  • PROD - 1920 - 1921, 1923, 1926, 1936 - 1940

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 6096M

Comments on the workings information

  • TOTAL LENGTH OF WORKINGS TO 1880 IS 20,000 FT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CALKINS, F.C. AND BUTLER, B.S., 1943 , GEOL & ORE DEP OF COTTONWOOD - AM FORK AREA: USGS PROF PAPER 201 , P. 137

  • Deposit

    USGS MINERAL RESOURCE YEARBOOK 1916-1917, 1920-1921, 1923; USBM MINERAL RESOURCE YEARBOOK 1926, 1937-1942, 1944, 1946-1949, 1951.

  • 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. 492.

  • Deposit

    HEYL, A. V., 1963 , OXIDIZED ZINC DEP. OF UTAH: USGS BULL. 1135 - B, P. 66 .

  • Deposit

    5) BUTLER, B. S., AND OTHERS, 1920 , ORE DEP. OF UTAH: USGS PROF. PAPER 111 , P. 270 .

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit FIVE LARGE ORE BODIES

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1977 Wong, George U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-DEC-1978 Tooker, Ed U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references