North Pilot Mine

Occurrence in Box Elder county in Utah, United States with commodities Lead, Zinc, Silver
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. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10015804
MRDS ID DB02048
Record type Site
Current site name North Pilot Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.98642, 41.31881 (WGS84)
Elevation 1591
Relative position 2 MILES SOUTH OF GARTNEY MOUNTAIN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Box Elder(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lucin(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Newfoundland Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Brigham City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Northern 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 Box Elder

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 007N 019W 14 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SE SW SE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary
Silver Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Anglesite Ore
Smithsonite Ore
Limonite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Limonitization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Guilmette Formation
    Rock description Guilmette Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Devonian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Devonian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.98642, 41.31881

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR TO TABULAR
    Thickness 1.83M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Brecciated Limestone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Lucin

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • A FEW TONS OF MINERALIZED ROCK REMAIN IN MINE AREA

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 10.97M

Comments on the workings information

  • ADIT AND 2 SMALL PROSPECT PITS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BLUE, D. M., 1960 , GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE LUCIN MINING DISTRICT, BOX ELDER COUNTY, UTAH AND ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA: UNIV. OF UTAH MS THESIS.

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, H. H., IN PREPARATION, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF BOX ELDER COUNTY, UTAH: UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY BULLETIN.

  • Reserve-Resource

    DOELLING, H. H., 1979 , UTAH GEOL. AND MINERALOG. SURVEY ON-SITE INVESTIGATION

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1979 Doelling, Hellmut H. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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