Unnamed Prospect

Occurrence in Juab county in Utah, United States with commodities Copper, Iron, Silver
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. 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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10042190
MRDS ID M058573
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.07357, 39.90467 (WGS84)
Elevation 2128
Relative position 2700 FT S 30 E FROM JUNCTION OF SILVER PASS ROAD AND JUAB COUNTY LINE.

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 0010S 002W 33 SE OF SW Utah

Comments on the location information

  • STEEP MOUNTAIN CREST SE OF RUBY HOLLOW ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1977

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary
Iron Tertiary
Silver Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Latite
    Rock unit name Laguna Springs Latite Tuff;Silver City Stock
    Rock description Laguna Springs Latite Tuff;Silver City Stock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.07357, 39.90467

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Northwest Trending Fractures
Type of structure Local
Structure description Argillization

Ore body information

  • Strike NW
    Dip 90
    Length 304.8M
    Depth to top 0M

Comments on the geologic information

  • VOLCANIC PILE HERE IS GENERALLY BARREN, VERY THICK

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

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
    Overall depth 15.24M

Comments on the workings information

  • SHALLOW PROSPECT

Comments on development

  • PROSPECT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MORRIS, H.T., AND LOVERING, T.S., 1979, GENERAL GEOLOGY 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 DEPOSITS 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, UTHA: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1142-K. P. K1-K29.

  • Deposit

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

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.