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Redmond Silver Mine

Past Producer in Sevier county in Utah, United States with commodities Zinc, 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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  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 10041854
MRDS ID M057699
Record type Site
Current site name Redmond Silver Mine
Alternate or previous names Salina Zinc
Related records 10276253

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.80966, 39.01552 (WGS84)
Elevation 1678
Relative position 1000 FT. SW OF REDMOND SUMMIT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sevier(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Redmond(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Manti(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Price(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

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 Sevier

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 021S 001E 04 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Zinc Critical Primary
Lead Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Hydrozincite Ore
Smithsonite Ore
Limonite Gangue

Analytical data

Result ORE MINED IN 1929 AVERAGED 25 - 30 % ZN

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Eocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -111.80966, 39.01552
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description The Mine Is On A Fault (N 40 E Strike, 75 Nw Dip). The Fault Has Placed Arapien Shale Against The Green River Fm. The District Lies On A Northeast-Trending Anticline.

Ore body information

  • General form LENTICULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Along A Fault Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Production years 1906 , 12 , 16 , 29 , 30 , 41 , 44 , 47 , 50 , 56 , 68

Mining district

District name Redmond District

Comments on the production information

  • THE LEAD AND ZINC PRODUCTION FIGURES AND THE PRODUCTION YEARS ARE OF THE ENTIRE COUNTY.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • SOME LOW GRADE ORE REMAINS IN THE MINE. EXPLORATION MAY FIND ADDITIONAL ORE.

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A VERTICAL SHAFT 100 - 200 FT. DEEP, 900 FT. OF BULLDOZER CUTS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HEYL, A. V., 1963 , OXIDIZED ZINC DEPOSITS OF US, PT. 2 , UTAH: USGS BULL. 1135-B, P. 85 - 86 .

  • Deposit

    PERRY, L.I. AND MCCARTHY, B. M., 1976 , LEAD AND ZINC IN UTAH: UTAH GEOL. & MIN. SURV. OPEN-FILE REPORT NO. 22 , P. 336 - 342 .

  • Production

    HEYL, 1963

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1979 Wong, George (Tooker, Ed) U.S. Geological Survey

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