Dan Hough Adit

Occurrence in Juab county in Utah, United States with commodities Iron, Manganese
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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  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 10094491
MRDS ID D008352
Record type Site
Current site name Dan Hough Adit
Alternate or previous names D and R Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.14746, 39.98884 (WGS84)
Elevation 2201
Relative position 3500 FT S. OF HANNIFIN PEAK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Juab(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tintic Junction(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lynndyl(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Delta(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Sevier(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier 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 Juab

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 009S 003W 35 SE OF NE SW Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Tertiary
Manganese Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Calcite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Quartz Latite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Herkimer Ls
    Rock description Herkimer Ls

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.14746, 39.98884

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Wasatch Hingeline
Type of structure Local
Structure description E. Flank Of North Tintic Anticline

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name North Tintic Mining District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 152.4M

Comments on the workings information

  • EAST ADIT TRENDS N10E ALONG SHEAR ZONE IN SHALE, PARTIALLY COLLAPSED, APPROXIMATELY 100 FT LONG; WEST ADIT ALONG SHEAR ZONE IN LIMESTONE, PARTIALLY COLLAPSED, APPROXIMATELY 400 FT LONG

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MORRIS, H.T., (ED.), 1964. GEOL. OF THE TINTIC JUNCTION QUADRANGLE, TOOELE, JUAB AND UTAH CO., UT.: U.S.G.S. BULL. 1142-L

  • Deposit

    COOK, D.R., 1957. GEOL. OF THE EAST TINTIC MOUNTAINS AND ORE DEPSOITS OF THE TINTIC MINING DISTRICTS: UTAH GEOL. SOC. GUIDEBOOK NO. 12

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN, W. AND LOUGHLIN, G.F., 1919. GEOL. AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE TINTIC MINING DISTRICT: U.S.G.S. PROF. PA. 107.

  • Deposit

    TRIPP, B.T., 1981. ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURVEY.

  • Deposit

    1964 GEOLMAP MORRIS, H.T., BULL. 1142-

  • Production

    TRIPP, B.T., 1981. ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURV.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit TWO SHEAR ZONES WITH THIN CALCITE VEINS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1981 Tripp, Bryce T. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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