Bar X Mine

Past Producer in Tooele 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. 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. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10055148
MRDS ID RE00163
Record type Site
Current site name Bar X Mine
Alternate or previous names Esther Claim Group, Esther Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.72831, 39.91494 (WGS84)
Elevation 1841
Relative position IN DEATH CANYON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Indian Springs(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lynndyl(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Delta(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Southern Great Salt Lake Desert(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 Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 10S 8W 27,34 NE Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Hemimorphite Ore
Smithsonite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result PRODUCTION ASSAYS FOR 1948 AVERAGED 9 PERCENT LEAD AND 9 PERCENT ZINC.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Quartz Monzonite Dikes;
    Rock description Quartz Monzonite Dikes;
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Sheeprock Series Of Cohenour (1959);
    Rock description Sheeprock Series Of Cohenour (1959);
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.72831, 39.91494

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range
Type of structure Local
Structure description Death Canyon Anticline

Ore body information

  • General form TABILAR
    Thickness 3.05M
  • General form TABILAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Bedding; Fracture Intersections

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Erickson District District

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Bar X Mining Co.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Bar B Mining Co.

Comments on the production information

  • 1950 AND 1952 PROD. LISTED BY USBM BY COMMODITIES: LBS. CU, ZN PB, AND OUNCES OF AU AND AG.

Comments on the workings information

  • A NUMBER OF WORKINGS, INCLUDING ADIT SHAFTS AND PITS. THE MOST EXTENSIVE WORKINGS, TOTALING APPROX. 1200 FT. OF ADITS DRIFTS, AND INCLINES ARE ON THE MARY ANN TUCKER NO.2 PATENTED CLAIM.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, 1982, UNPATENTED MINING CLAIM FILES 109649, 178764, 233184, UTAH STATE OFFICE, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH

  • Deposit

    BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, 1982, MINERAL SURVEY NO. 7228, 7253, 7260, UTAH

  • Deposit

    THOMAS, G.H., 1958, THE GEOLOGY OF INDIAN SPRINGS QUADRANGLE, TOOELE AND JUAB COUNTIES, UTAH: UNPUB. BYU THESIS, PROVO, UTAH

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, 1949, MINERAL PROPERTY FILE 37.39

  • Production

    USBM MINERALS YEARBOOK 1946, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1952

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE SHOOTS AT THE INTERSECTION OF FRACTURES IN CHLORITIC SHALES INTERBEDDED WITH QUARTZITES.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1978 Messenger, Harold M. III Utah Geological and Mineral Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references