Yankee Girl Mine

Past Producer in Juab county in Utah, United States with commodities Silver, Lead, Zinc
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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10020824
MRDS ID DC14052
Record type Site
Current site name Yankee Girl Mine
Alternate or previous names Yankee Girl Group
Related records 10252174

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.12773, 39.90828 (WGS84)
Elevation 1890
Relative position 2900 FT. NE. OF SILVER CITY CEMETERY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Juab(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tintic Junction(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 003W 36 SW OF NW OF SE Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Secondary

Analytical data

Result 6.5 OZ. AG PER TON, 3.8 PERCENT PB, 1.3 PERCENT ZN

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.12773, 39.90828

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Wasatch Front
Type of structure Local
Structure description Tintic Syncline

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N60E
    Dip 80N
    Thickness 1.83M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Small Ne Trending Vein

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Main Tintic Mining District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • ONE SHAFT, ONE ADIT AND THREE OPEN CUTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MORRIS, H.T., (ED.), 1964. GEOL. OF THE TINTIC JUNCTION QUADRANGLE, TOOELE, JUAB AND UTAH CO., UT.: U.S.G.S. BULL. 1142-L

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN, W. AND LOUGHLIN, G.F., 1919. GEOL. AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE TINTIC MINING DISTRICT: U.S.G.S. PROF. PA. 107.

  • Deposit

    TRIPP, B.T., 1981. ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURVEY.

  • Deposit

    1964 GEOLMAP MORRIS, H.T. BULL. 1142-

  • Production

    COOK, D.R., (ED), 1957, GEOL. OF THE EAST TINTIC MTNS.: UTAH GEOL. SOC. GUIDEBOOK 12.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1979 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAR-1981 Tripp, Bryce T. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references