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Lucky Boy

Past Producer in Piute county in Utah, United States with commodities Mercury, Selenium, Gold, Tellurium, Zinc, Manganese, Barium-Barite
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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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040410
MRDS ID M055174
Record type Site
Current site name Lucky Boy

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.28106, 38.39219 (WGS84)
Relative position 15 MI NE OF BEAVER. 5 MI. S. OF MARYSVALE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Piute(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Brigham(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Beaver(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Sevier(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Fishlake 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 Piute

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 028S 004W 11 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary
Selenium Secondary
Gold Secondary
Tellurium Critical Secondary
Zinc Critical Tertiary
Manganese Critical Tertiary
Barium-Barite Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Barite Gangue
Calcite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Sphalerite Unknown

Alteration

  • (Local) Argillic

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.28106, 38.39219
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR LENS
    Thickness 4.57M
    Width 0.05M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fracture Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1881

Mining district

District name Mt. Baldy Dist./Ohio District/Mercur District

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Deer Trail Mining Co.
    First year 1944

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    U.S. 88TH CONGRESS 2ND SESS. 1964 COMM. INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS, COMM. PRINT 26-976

  • Deposit

    MCCASKEY, H.D., 1912, QUICKSILVER IN 1911, PRODUCTION AND RESOURCES, ADVANCE CHAPTER FROM MINERAL RESOURCES OF UNITED STATES FOR 1911, P. 28-29.

  • Deposit

    BAILEY, E.H., USGS, PERSONAL FILES

  • Production

    USBM DATA

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1973 Bergquist, Joel R. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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