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Evans Mine

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Lead, Barium-Barite
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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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10055141
MRDS ID RE00152
Record type Site
Current site name Evans Mine
Alternate or previous names Royal Tunnel, Lookout, Wedge Fraction No. 2, Delmonte and Durham Patented Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.85724, 40.23687 (WGS84)
Elevation 1987

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gold Hill(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wildcat Mountain(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

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 007S 018W 11 NW Utah

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1976)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Barium-Barite Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Ore
Galena Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Marbleization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Undiff. Upper Camb;Undiff. Middle Camb;
    Rock description Undiff. Upper Camb;Undiff. Middle Camb;
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.85724, 40.23687
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range
Type of structure Local
Structure description Ochre Mountain Thrust

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Ochre Mountain Thrust

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Clifton (Gold Hill) District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 12.5M

Comments on the workings information

  • TWO ADITS: THE WESTERN ADIT IS ON THE CREON CLAIM AND THE EASTERN ADIT IS ON THE MONSTER CLAIM. THE CREON ADIT IS CAVED TO WITHIN 10 FT. OF THE PORTAL; THE MONSTER ADIT IS 31 FT. LONG

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1978 Messenger, Harold M. III Utah Geological and Mineral Survey

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

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