Little Valley No. 2 Adit

Occurrence in Box Elder county in Utah, United States with commodities Lead, Zinc
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Host and associated rocks
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Controls for ore emplacement
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10041749
MRDS ID M057505
Record type Site
Current site name Little Valley No. 2 Adit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.46526, 41.26965 (WGS84)
Elevation 1646

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Box Elder(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pokes Point(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Promontory Point(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Brigham City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Curlew Valley(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 Box Elder

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) Geertsen Canyon Quartzite

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Along A N70w Fracture

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Promontory Point District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A 200 FOOT ADIT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PROMONTORY PT. ZINC DEPOSITS: SALT LAKE MIN. REVIEW, VOL 17 , NO. 18 , P. 97 , JAN 15 , 1916

  • Deposit

    SIEGFUSS, S. S., A RECON. OF THE PROMONTORY PT. MINING DISTRICT: UTAH, UNIV. BULL. 15 , NO. 2 , P 71 , 1925

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE OCCURS IN THE LIMESTONE-SHALE CONTACT.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1978 Wong, George (Tooker, Ed) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-SEP-1982 Wong, George U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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