Mineral Mountain Mine No. 1

Past Producer in Box Elder county in Utah, United States with commodities Silver, Lead, Zinc, Barium-Barite
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. 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 10020138
MRDS ID DC12635
Record type Site
Current site name Mineral Mountain Mine No. 1

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.03086, 41.24548 (WGS84)
Elevation 2100
Relative position ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF REGULATOR CANYON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Box Elder(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Patterson Pass(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wells(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Wells(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Pilot-Thousand Springs, Nevada, Utah(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Box Elder

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 006N 019W 16 NE OF NW Utah

Comments on the location information

  • ACC. SW 1/4 SE 1/4 SECT. 9

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Primary
Barium-Barite Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Anglesite Ore
Barite Ore
Hemimorphite Ore
Smithsonite Ore
Goethite Gangue
Limonite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Heavy Limonitization

Analytical data

Result $50 - $125/TON IN SILVER AND LEAD

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Silurian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Silurian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Laketown Dolomite
    Rock description Laketown Dolomite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.03086, 41.24548

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form VEINS IN FAULT FISSURES OR VERTICAL PIPES AT FISSURE INTERSECTIONS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Production years 1917

Mining district

District name Lucin District

Land status

Ownership category State

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 1066.8M
    Overall length 100M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF SEVERAL SMALL ADITS AND PROSPECT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BUTLER,B.S., AND OTHERS, 1920, ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH: USGS PROF. PAPER 111, P. 493.

  • Deposit

    HEYL,A.V., 1963, OXIDIZED ZINC DEPOSITS OF THE U.S.: USGS BULL. 1135-B, P. 34-37.

  • Deposit

    SALT LAKE MINING REVIEW, NOV. 30, 1910, P. 30.

  • Deposit

    PERRY,L.I. & MCCARTHY,B.M., 1977, LEAD AND ZINC IN UTAH: UTAH GEOL. & MIN. SURV., ECON. GEOL. SECT., OPEN-FILE REPT. NO. 22, P. 116-117.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1974 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1982 Wong, George (Tooker, Ed) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-OCT-1992 Spanski, Gregory T. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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