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Lakeview Mines

Past Producer in Box Elder county in Utah, United States with commodities Copper, Lead, Silver, 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. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10154165
MRDS ID DB01675
MAS/MILS ID 0490030022
Record type Site
Current site name Lakeview Mines
Related records 10015629

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -112.46552, 41.25773 (WGS84)
Elevation 1653
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 SWSWSW Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Silver Tertiary
Zinc Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Calcite Unknown
Cerussite Unknown
Hemimorphite Unknown
Limonite Unknown
Smithsonite Unknown

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -112.46552, 41.25773
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N15W
    Dip 33E
    Thickness 1M
    Length 320M
    Width 100M
    Area 30HA
    Depth to top 60M
    Field Value
    Type of Orebody #1 REPLACEMENT
    Shape of Orebody #1 TABULAR
    Primary mode of Origin HYDROTHERMAL
    Secondary mode of Origin OXIDATION
    Primary Ore Control LITHOLOGY
    Degree of Wallrock Alter. SLIGHT
    Type of Wallrock Alter. #1 INTERM ARGILLIC
    Strike And Dip N15W:33E
    Minimum Depth to Top 0
    Avg. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 1
    Min. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 0
    Total Surface Area (HA) 30
    Date of Last Modification 810924

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Discovery year 1916
Year of first production 1916

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 1981

Comments on the ownership information

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

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • THE QUANTITY MATRIX ONE COMES FROM THE UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY ECONOMIC GEOLOGY SECTION ESTIMATES MADE IN 1976. THERE HAS NOT BEEN ANY ACTIVITY SINCE THIS YEAR. THE GRADE IN THE QUANTITY MATRIX COMES FROM PAGE 142 OF THE OPEN-FILE REPORT 22 BY UGMS.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 610M
    Overall depth 10M
    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
    Number of Shafts 1
    Avg. Length of Adits (m) 100
    Number of Adits 6
    1st Condition of Workings OPEN
    Capacity Units MT ORE/DAY
    Units of Production $/MT ORE
    Year of Information 1976

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Reserve-Resource

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

  • Reserve-Resource

    LAKEVIEW MINES. UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY ECO-

  • Reserve-Resource

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

  • Reserve-Resource

    BUREAU OF MINES GRANT NO. G0264006.

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    ICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY. PERSONAL COMMUNICATION, OCT. 27,

  • Deposit

    1980 AND JULY 1981.

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    OPEN-FILE REPORT 22 (UGMS). PERSONAL COMMUNICATION,

  • Deposit

    OCT. 30, 1980.

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY. PERSONAL COMMUNICATION,

  • Deposit

    SEPT. 3, 1981.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ZINC, LEAD, SILVER, AND COPPER WERE HISTORICALLY PRESENT IN THE LAKEVIEW MINES. PRESENTLY THERE IS POSSIBLY SOME SIL- VER AND COPPER BUT THE GRADES ARE UNKNOWN. SEVERAL PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS WERE HELD WITH THE UGMS PERSONNEL. FROM THESE COMMUNICATIONS IT WAS CONCLUDED THAT THE LAKEVIEW MINES IS DEPLETED AND THERE ARE NO PLANS TO DO EXPLORATION IN SEARCH OF ADDITIONAL RESERVES.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 13-APR-1993 Amaro, R. U.S. Bureau of Mines

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