Cannon Mine

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021254
MRDS ID DC15292
Record type Site
Current site name Cannon Mine
Alternate or previous names Metal States Mine, Lauris, Laurel Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.22499, 39.988 (WGS84)
Elevation 1451
Relative position LABELED AS CANNON MINE ON TOPO MAP

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Dugway Range NW(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Fish Springs(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Delta(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Southern Great Salt Lake Desert(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management UT)

Bureau of Land Management UT BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 010S 012W 05 NW OF SE NW Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Ore
Galena Ore
Malachite Ore
Barite Gangue
Hematite Gangue

Analytical data

Result 3.2 FT. CHIP SAMPLE: 1.10 OZ/TON AG
Result 20.42% PB
Result 53.9% CAF2

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Prospect Mtn Quartzite
    Rock description Prospect Mtn Quartzite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.22499, 39.988

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin & Range
Type of structure Local
Structure description Laurel Fault (3000 Ft Long, Strike N-Nw Dip 72 Deg E

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike N
    Dip 72 DEG W
    Thickness 1.52M
    Length 18.29M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 16.76M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fractures

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1880

Mining district

District name Dugway District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner J. F. Cannon
    Home office Salt Lake City, Ut.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Unknown
    Length 161.54M
    Overall depth 16.76M

Comments on the workings information

  • AT 4912 FT.: 100 FT. ADIT WITH 25 FOOT STOPE AND 55 FOOT SHAFT. AT 4760 FT IS THE CANNON MINE: 430 FT. LONG WITH STOPES.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: REPORT OF INVESTIGATION NO 71; UTAH GEOL. & MIN. SUR., 1972 P 11

  • Deposit

    STAATZ, M.H., CARR, W.J. 1964, GEOL. & MIN. DEP OF THOMAS AND DUGWAY RANGES, JUAB CO, UT: USGS PP 415

  • Deposit

    BULLOCK, K.C.; 1976 FLUORITE OCCURRENCES IN UTAH, UTAH GEOL. & MIN. SURVEY BULL 110

  • Deposit

    DOELLING; H.H., 1972, DUGWAY RANGE FLUORITE LEASING PROGRAM, TOOELE CO., UTAH: UTAH GEOL & MIN. SURV REP. OF INV. 71

  • Deposit

    1920 RECON BUTLER, USGS P.P.111

  • Deposit

    1964 GEOLMAP STAATZ & CARR, USGS P.P 111

  • Production

    USBM MIN YEARBOOK 1946, 1948, 1951

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit GOOD POTENTIAL AS FLUORITE PRODUCER

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1980 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAR-1986 Everts, Mike L. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references