Colorado

Past Producer in Utah county in Utah, United States with commodities Silver, Lead, Copper, Gold, 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. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10020832
MRDS ID DC14064
Record type Site
Current site name Colorado
Alternate or previous names Colorado Mining Co.

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.09523, 39.93662 (WGS84)
Elevation 2175
Relative position 0.3 MI EAST OF SIOUX PEAK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Utah(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 Utah

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 010S 002W 20 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION IS OF NO. 1 SHAFT

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Copper Secondary
Gold Secondary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Calamine Ore
Galena Ore
Smithsonite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicified Limestone Surrounds The Ore Shoot.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Quartz Latite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) Ajax Dolomite and Opex Formation

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Tintic Syncline

Ore body information

  • General form HORIZONTAL PIPE
    Thickness 6.1M
    Length 762M
    Width 18.29M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Production years 1907 - 1957

Mining district

District name Tintic District

Comments on the production information

  • BETWEEN 1907 - 13 , 108,939 TONS OF ORE WERE MINED AT GROSS VALUE OF $5,275,085 .

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 4267.2M
    Overall depth 91.44M

Comments on the workings information

  • TWO SHAFTS: NO. 1 IS 500 FT, NO. 2 IS 300 FT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN, W. AND LOUGHLIN, G. F., 1919 , GEOL & ORE DEP OF TINTIC MINING DIST: USGS PROF PAPER 107 , P. 236 - 8 .

  • Deposit

    USGS MIN. RES. 1919-1935, 1940 - 59

  • Deposit

    HEYL, A. V., 1963 , OXIDIZED ZN DEP. OF US: USGS BULL 1135 - B, P. 73

  • Deposit

    COOK, D. R., 1957 , GEOL OF E. TINTIC MTNS AND ORE DEP OF TINTIC MINING DIST: UTAH GEOL SOC GUIDEBOOK #12 , PL 3 .

  • Production

    USGS PP 107 , UTAH GEOL. SOC. GUIDEBOOK 12

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE ORE BODY IS A CONTINUATION OF THE BECK TUNNEL ORE BODY AND FOLLOWS THE ALMOST HORIZONTAL AXIS OF THE TINTIC SYNCLINE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1974 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAR-1982 Wong, George (Morris, H.T.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references