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Pete's Tunnel

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10130266
MAS/MILS ID 0490030024
Record type Site
Current site name Pete's Tunnel

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -112.46412, 41.25913 (WGS84)
Elevation 1650
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Box Elder(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pokes Point(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Promontory Point(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Brigham City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Curlew Valley(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 006 N 005 W 07 NESWSW Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Tertiary
Zinc Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cerussite Unknown
Hemimorphite Unknown
Smithsonite Unknown

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -112.46412, 41.25913
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N15W
    Dip 25E
    Thickness 1M
    Length 76M
    Width 10M
    Area 3HA
    Depth to top 10M
    Field Value
    Type of Orebody #1 REPLACEMENT
    Shape of Orebody #1 TABULAR
    Primary mode of Origin HYDROTHERMAL
    Primary Ore Control FAULTING
    Secondary Ore Control LITHOLOGY
    Degree of Wallrock Alter. MODERATE
    Type of Wallrock Alter. #1 DOLOMITIZATION
    Type of Wallrock Alter. #2 BLEACHING
    Type of Wallrock Alter. #3 CARBONITIZATION
    Strike And Dip N15W:25E
    Minimum Depth to Top 0
    Avg. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 1
    Min. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 0
    Total Surface Area (HA) 3
    Date of Last Modification 810924

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1914
Year of first production 1915

Mining district

District name Promontory

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Patented

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Lakeview Mining Co.
    Interest 100
    Year 1976

Comments on the ownership information

  • THE LAKEVIEW MINING COMPANY HAS BEEN DIFFICULT TO TRACE AND IS PROBABLY DISSOLVED. THIS STATEMENT WAS MADE ON OCT. 27, 1980 BY H.H. DOELLING, CHIEF ECONOMIC GEOLOGY SECTION, UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY (UGMS).

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • RELIABLE INFORMATION WITH RESPECT TO THE ORE GRADE IN QUANTITY MATRIX ONE IS NOT AVAILABLE. FROM THE UGMS EVALUATION IT MAY BE ROUGHLY ASSUMED THAT THE GRADE WAS ABOUT 20-PERCENT ZN AND 15-PERCENT PB. THE ORE QUANTITIES SHOWN COME FROM STUDIES MADE BY THE UGMS IN CONNECTION WITH OPEN FILE REPORT 22, 1976 AND FROM PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS WITH UGMS (ECONOMIC GEOLOGY SECTION) PERSONNEL.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 229M
    Field Value
    MAS Development Schedule # 1
    Mining Record # 1
    Mining Method OPEN STOPE
    Swell Factor .65
    Hardness of Rock SOFT NONPLASTIC WITH LITTLE WATER
    Rock Characteristics ONE SYSTEM OF WEAKNESS PLANES
    Rock Support Chars. SUPPORTING
    Mine Support Chars. TIMBER
    Avg. Length of Adits (m) 122
    Number of Adits 1
    1st Condition of Workings OPEN
    Capacity Units MT ORE/DAY
    Units of Production $/MT ORE
    Year of Information 1976

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, H.H. CHIEF ECONOMIC GEOLOGY SECTION, UTAH GEO-

  • Deposit

    LOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY. PERSONAL COMMUNICATION, OCT.

  • Deposit

    27, 1980 AND JULY 1981.

  • Deposit

    PERRY, L.I., PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR AND CO-AUTHOR OF OPEN-

  • Deposit

    FILE REPORT 22 (UGMS). PERSONAL COMMUNICATION, OCT. 30,

  • Deposit

    1980

  • Deposit

    PERRY,L.I. AND B.M. MCCARTHY. LEAD AND ZINC IN UTAH, 1976

  • Deposit

    PROMONTORY DISTRICT. UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY

  • Deposit

    ECONOMIC GEOLOGY SECTION. UGMS OPEN-FILE REPORT 22. U.S.

  • Deposit

    BUREAU OF MINES GRANT NO. GO264006, PP. 134-142.

  • Deposit

    TRIPP, B.T. STAFF GEOLOGIST, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY SECTION, UTAH

  • Deposit

    GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY. PERSONAL COMMUNICATION,

  • Deposit

    SEPT. 3, 1981.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 13-APR-93 Amaro, R. U.S. Bureau of Mines

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