Turk and Governor Prospects

Occurrence in Juab county in Utah, United States with commodities Copper, Lead
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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10042177
MRDS ID M058555
Record type Site
Current site name Turk and Governor Prospects

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.10218, 39.90245 (WGS84)
Elevation 2164
Relative position 4000 FT S 10E OF MAMMOTH PEAK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Juab(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Eureka(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lynndyl(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Delta(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Sevier(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Juab

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 010S 002W 30 SE OF SE Utah

Comments on the location information

  • EAST FORK OF DRAGON CANYON ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1977

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Lead Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Metamorphism

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Opohonga Limestone
    Rock description Opohonga Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.10218, 39.90245

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description N 35 E Bedding
Type of structure Local
Structure description East-W Fissures

Comments on the geologic information

  • ABUNDANT BARITE; CONTACT WITH STOCK LIES 2000 FT S OF SHAFT

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1875

Mining district

District name Tintic District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Anaconda Co.
    Home office New York, N.Y.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 152.4M
    Overall depth 60.96M

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFT

Comments on development

  • PRE-1900 PROSPECT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MORRIS, H.T., AND LOVERING, T.S., 1979 GENERAL GEOGOLY AND MINES OF THE EAST TINTIC MINING DISTRICT, UTAH AND JUAB COUNTIES, UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 1024, 194 PP.

  • Deposit

    COOK, D.R., ED., 1957, GEOLOGY OF THE EAST TINTIC MOUNTAINS AND ORE DEPOSTIS OF THE TINTIC MINING DISTRICTS: UTAH GEOL. SOC. GUIDEBOOK, NO.12, 183 P.

  • Deposit

    MORRIS, H.T., 1964, GEOLOGY OF THE EUREKA QUADRANGLE, UTAH AND JUAB COUNTIES, UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1142-K, P. K1-K29.

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN, WALDEMAR, AND LOUGHLIN, G.F., 1919, GEOLOGY AND ORE DESPOSITS OF THE TINTIC MINING DISTRICT, UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 107, 276 PP.

  • Deposit

    TOWER, G.W., AND SMITH G.O., 1899, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, 19TH ANNUAL REPORT, VOL III, 1897-981 PAGE 756.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Discovery Year: 1870S
Deposit STRATA STRIKE NORTH AND DIP E

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1983 James, Laurence P. Utah Geological and Mineral Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.