Scottish Chief Mine

Past Producer in Salt Lake county in Utah, United States with commodities Silver, Lead, Copper, 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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10020852
MRDS ID DC14131
Record type Site
Current site name Scottish Chief Mine
Alternate or previous names Silver King Mining Co. Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.56939, 40.62272 (WGS84)
Elevation 2957
Relative position 1.5 MILE NE OF BRIGHTON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Salt Lake(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)

Jordan(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 Salt Lake

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 002S 003E 24,23 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Copper Secondary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Anglesite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Chrysocolla Ore
Galena Ore
Malachite Ore
Pyromorphite Ore
Silver Ore
Garnet Gangue
Limonite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Limestone Is Metamorphosed To A Hard Whitish And Greenish Hornfels Containing Diopside And Scapolite.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.56939, 40.62272

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form SINOUS POD SHAPED SHOOT

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Production years 1902-1904

Mining district

District name Big Cottonwood District

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 914.4M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF AN IRREGULAR INCLINE 400 FT DEEP WITH 3 LEVELS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1974 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1980 Wong, George (Tooker, Ed) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references