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Lead Mine

Past Producer in Salt Lake county in Utah, United States with commodity Lead
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  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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10020903
MRDS ID DC14244
Record type Site
Current site name Lead Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.12886, 40.5205 (WGS84)
Elevation 1996
Relative position 1.25 MI. EAST OF OPEN PIT CENTER

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Salt Lake(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bingham Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Jordan(hydrologic unit)

Jordan(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Salt Lake

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 003S 003W 36 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • MINE IS NOW UNDER THE WASTE DUMPS OF THE OPEN PIT MINE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore

Analytical data

Result 1905 : 41.14 % PB, 7.82 OZ/TON AG, 0.053 OZ/TON AU.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pennsylvanian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.12886, 40.5205
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike NE - SW
    Dip 50

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: THE VEIN IS BETWEEN LIMESTONE AND QUARTZITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Bingham District

Comments on the production information

  • TOTAL PRODUCTION TO 1905 - 62 , 531 TONS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USBM MIN. RES. 1924.

  • Deposit

    USGS PROF. PAPER 38, 1905, P. 316-318.

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 03-26-1963

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit PART OF DALTON-LARK PROPERTY

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1975 Mc Coy, Gail U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-NOV-1978 Wong, George (Tooker, Ed) U.S. Geological Survey

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