Sunshine Mine (See Mercur District)

Past Producer in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Mercury, Gold, Silver, Copper
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Mining district
  9. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60000977
MRDS ID M055165
Record type District
Current site name Sunshine Mine (See Mercur District)

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.10083, 40.69993 (WGS84)
Relative position Found Tooele county Utah and found what looked like a mining operation and approximated the location.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Aragonite(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bonneville Salt Flats(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

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary
Copper Secondary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.10083, 40.69993

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic

Mining district

District name MERCUR DISTRICT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERALOGICAL SURVEY SPECIAL STUDIES 43, 1973

Beyond USGS

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