| 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: | -112.72831, 39.91494 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Elevation | 1841 |
| Relative position | IN DEATH CANYON |
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)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Utah | Tooele |
| Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salt Lake | 10S | 8W | 27,34 | NE | Utah |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Lead | Primary |
| Zinc Critical | Primary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Galena | Ore |
| Hemimorphite | Ore |
| Smithsonite | Ore |
| Sphalerite | Ore |
| Pyrite | Gangue |
| Quartz | Gangue |
| Result | PRODUCTION ASSAYS FOR 1948 AVERAGED 9 PERCENT LEAD AND 9 PERCENT ZINC. |
|---|
| Host or associated | Associated | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite | ||||
| Rock unit name | Quartz Monzonite Dikes; | ||||
| Rock description | Quartz Monzonite Dikes; | ||||
| |||||
| 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 |
| (1) | -112.72831, 39.91494 |
|---|
| Type of structure | Regional |
|---|---|
| Structure description | Basin And Range |
| Type of structure | Local |
| Structure description | Death Canyon Anticline |
| General form | TABILAR |
|---|---|
| Thickness | 3.05M |
| General form | TABILAR |
|---|
| Development status | Past Producer |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Deposit size | Small |
| Significant | No |
| District name | Erickson District District |
|---|
| Type | Operator |
|---|---|
| Owner | Bar X Mining Co. |
| Type | Owner |
|---|---|
| Owner | Bar B Mining Co. |
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | RE00163 |
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, 1982, UNPATENTED MINING CLAIM FILES 109649, 178764, 233184, UTAH STATE OFFICE, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, 1982, MINERAL SURVEY NO. 7228, 7253, 7260, UTAH
THOMAS, G.H., 1958, THE GEOLOGY OF INDIAN SPRINGS QUADRANGLE, TOOELE AND JUAB COUNTIES, UTAH: UNPUB. BYU THESIS, PROVO, UTAH
U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, 1949, MINERAL PROPERTY FILE 37.39
USBM MINERALS YEARBOOK 1946, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1952
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | ORE SHOOTS AT THE INTERSECTION OF FRACTURES IN CHLORITIC SHALES INTERBEDDED WITH QUARTZITES. |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 01-OCT-1978 | Messenger, Harold M. III | Utah Geological and Mineral Survey |
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