Mountain Lake Mine

Past Producer in Salt Lake county in Utah, United States with commodities Copper, Tungsten, Molybdenum, Silver, Gold
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. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021034
MRDS ID DC14733
Record type Site
Current site name Mountain Lake Mine
Alternate or previous names Jack
Related records 10130305

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.58495, 40.58244 (WGS84)
Elevation 2972
Relative position 1.5 MILE SOUTH OF BRIGHTON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Salt Lake(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Brighton(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Salt Lake City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Salt Lake City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Jordan(hydrologic unit)

Jordan(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Salt Lake

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 003S 003E 02,03;10,11 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • THIS MINE WAS CONSOLIDATED WITH THE GREAT WESTERN MINES CO.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Tungsten Critical Primary
Molybdenum Primary
Silver Primary
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Bornite Ore
Chalcocite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Scheelite Ore
Actinolite Gangue
Brucite Gangue
Chlorite Gangue
Epidote Gangue
Forsterite Gangue
Phlogopite Gangue
Serpentine Gangue
Talc Gangue
Tremolite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Intense Contact Metamorphism Along Contact Of Granodiorite And Madison Ls.

Analytical data

Result 1939 : 0.78 % WO3 , 0.22 % MO, 0.11 OZ AG, 0.01 OZ AU PER TON.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) Gardison and Lodgepole Limestones

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Grizzly Overthrust

Ore body information

  • Length 60.96M
    Width 15.24M

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: SCHEELITE WAS FOUND IN ALTERED LIMESTONE IN A TACTITE ZONE AT THE CONTACT OF LS AND GRANODIORITE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Big Cottonwood District

Comments on the workings information

  • MOST WORKINGS ARE CAVED, EXCEPT STEAMBOAT TUNNEL, WHERE IT IS IN SNAKE CREEK CANYON IN WASATCH CO. AND EXTENDS FOR 4,000 FT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1974 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-DEC-1978 Wong, George (Tooker, Ed) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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