Black Balsam Prospect

Occurrence in Utah county in Utah, United States with commodities Copper, Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead
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. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10012795
MRDS ID D008730
Record type Site
Current site name Black Balsam Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.75106, 39.95689 (WGS84)
Elevation 1975
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position 10,100 FT S 62 E OF SANTAQUIN CEMETERY, Within 2500 Ft. Radius

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Utah(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Santaquin(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Nephi(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Price(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Spanish Fork(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 Utah

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 010S 002E 07 NW OF SE OF SE Utah

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1975)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary
Lead Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Fluorite Ore
Galena Ore
Malachite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Farmington Canyon Camplex
    Rock description Farmington Canyon Camplex
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.75106, 39.95689

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Wasatch Fault

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike N 50 E
    Dip 70 SE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Santaquin District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Lentz Greenhalgh

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Length 171.6M

Comments on the workings information

  • TWO CLAIMS AND TWO ADITS. UPPER ADIT IS 251 FT. LONG, ON BLACK BALSAM NO. 1 CLAIM, THE LOWER ADIT IS 312 FT. LONG, ON BLACK BALSAM NO. 2 CLAIM

Comments on development

  • LOCATED BEFORE 1920, ON TWO UNPATENTED CLAIMS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BULLOCK, K.C., 1976, FLUORITE OCCURRENCES IN UTAH: UGMS BULL. 110.

  • Deposit

    BUTLER, B.S., 1920, ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH, USGS PROF. PA. 111.

  • Deposit

    LOUGHLIN, G.F., 1918, TWO LAMPROPHYRE DIKES NEAR SANTAQUIN AND MOUNT NEBO, UT.: USGS PROF. PA. 120-E.

  • Deposit

    BULLOCK, K.C., 1962, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF NORTH CENTRAL UTAH: BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY GEOLOGY STUDIES, VOL. 9, PT. 1.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VEIN CUTTING SHATTERED GRANITE GNEISS WITH NEARBY LAMPROPHYRE DIKE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-82 Tripp, Bryce T. Utah Geological and Mineral Survey

Beyond USGS

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