Compressor Mine

Occurrence in Box Elder county in Utah, United States with commodities Tungsten, Copper
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. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10015833
MRDS ID DB02085
Record type Site
Current site name Compressor Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.75947, 41.51909 (WGS84)
Elevation 2036
Relative position 1 MILE SOUTH OF ROCKY PASS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Box Elder(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Rocky Pass Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Grouse Creek(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Box Elder

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 009N 017W 11 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS: NW 1/4 SW 1/4 NE 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Malachite Ore
Powellite Ore
Scheelite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Epidote Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Grouse Creek Pluton Or Emigrant Pass Intrusion
    Rock description Grouse Creek Pluton Or Emigrant Pass Intrusion
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Devonian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Devonian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Guilmette Formation
    Rock description Guilmette Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.75947, 41.51909

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike E - W
    Dip STEEP
    Thickness 1.83M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Favorable Limestone Beds Near Limestone-Quartz Monzonite Contact

Comments on the geologic information

  • K2 COMPTON AND OTHERS, 1977 , CALL THIS INTRUSION GRANODIORITE VERGING ON ADAMELLITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Rosebud

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall length 18.29M
    Overall width 1.83M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    EVERETT, F. D., 1961 , TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS IN UTAH: US BUREAU OF MINES INF. CIRC. 8014 .

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, H. H., IN PREPARATION, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF BOX ELDER COUNTY, UTAH: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY BULL.

  • Deposit

    1973 RECON UTAH GEOL. & MINERAL SURVE

  • 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.