United Tintic Mine

Past Producer in Juab county in Utah, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, 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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10020245
MRDS ID DC12861
Record type Site
Current site name United Tintic Mine
Alternate or previous names South Standard Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.09468, 39.90467 (WGS84)
Elevation 1966
Relative position N 50 E 4600 FT FROM SUMMIT OF TREASURE HILL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Juab(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Eureka(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Juab

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 010S 002W 32 SE OF SW Utah

Comments on the location information

  • N SIDE OF RUBY HOLLOW ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1977

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Secondary
Silver Secondary
Copper Secondary

Comments on the commodity information

  • A PROSPECT

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Argillization, Sericitization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Rock unit name Silver City Stock
    Rock description Silver City Stock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.09468, 39.90467

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Stock
Type of structure Local
Structure description Anastamosing Veins

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike NORTH
    Dip 80
    Plunge direction ALTERED AREA IN INTRUSIVE ROCK
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Veins

Comments on the geologic information

  • ZONE OF NNE VEIN, NEAR EDGE OF ALLUVIUM

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1875

Mining district

District name Tintic District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner United Tintic Mining Co
  • Type Owner
    Owner South Standard Mining Co.
    Home office Salt Lake, City Ut.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 152.4M
    Overall depth 60.96M

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFT BEING SUNK, MAY 1917. SEE ALSO NEW STATE MINE. MINOR PRODUCT IN EARLY DAYS AND 1935.

Comments on development

  • DEVELOPED WITH PUBLIC MONEY BY E. J. RADDATZ, 1914-1917, WITHOUT SUCCESS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MORRIS, H.T., AND LOVERING, T.S., 1979, GENERAL GEOLOGY AND MINES OF THE EAST TINTIC MINING DISTRICT, UTAH AND JUAB COUNTIES, UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 1024, 194 PP.

  • Deposit

    COOK, D.R., ED., 1957, GEOLOGY OF THE EAST TINTIC MOUNTAINS AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE TINITC MINING DISTRICTS: UTAH GEOL. SOC. GUIDEBOOK, NO. 12, 183 P.

  • Deposit

    MORRIS, H.T., 1964, GEOLOGY OF THE EUREKA QUADRANGLE, UTAH AND JUAB COUNTIES, UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1142-K, P. K1-K29.

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN, WALDEMAR, AND LOUGHLIN, G.F., 1919, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE TINTIC MINING DISTRICT, UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 107, 276 PP.

  • Deposit

    SALT LAKE MINING REVIEW, DECEMBER 13,1914, P. 19.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Discovery Year: 1870S

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1983 James, Laurence P. Utah Geological and Mineral Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references