Tintic District Delaware 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. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10055171
MRDS ID RE00213
Record type Site
Current site name Tintic District Delaware Mine
Alternate or previous names Free Coinage Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.51274, 39.95133 (WGS84)
Elevation 2359
Relative position IN THE HEAD OF THE MIDDLE FORK OF COTTONWOOD CANYON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Erickson Knoll(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)

Federal lands

Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 10S 6W 15 NW Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Sericite Gangue
Specularite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Sheeprock Granite;
    Rock description Sheeprock Granite;
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
  • 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);

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.51274, 39.95133

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
  • General form TABULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Sheeprock Granite- Precambrian Metasediments Contact

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Columbia District

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION IN 1918 AND 1945 WAS RECORDED; THE IDA GROUP AND THE TINTIC DISTRICT DELAWARE JOINTLY PRODUCED 52 TONS IN 1945

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 228.6M

Comments on the workings information

  • A MAIN TUNNEL, WITH DRIFTS, TOTALING 750 FT., THREE WINZES, AND A SHAFT. ANOTHER SHAFT IS APPROX. 1060 FT. NORTHWEST OF THE TUNNEL. AN OPEN CUT IS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS SHAFT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    COHENOUR, R.E., 1959, SHEEPROCK MOUNTAINS, TOOELE AND JUAB COUNTIES: UGMS BULL. 63 P. 117

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, 1981, MINERAL SURVEY NO. 6734, UTAH STATE OFFICE, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, 1945, MINERALS YEARBOOK, P. 476

  • Deposit

    U.S.G.S., 1918, MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE UNITED STATES, P. 402

  • Production

    USGS, MINERAL RES. OF U.S., 1918, P. 402; USBM, MINERALS YEARBOOK, 1945, P. 476

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE MINERALIZED FISSURES PARALLEL THE SHEEPROCK GRANITE- PRECAMBRIAN METASEDIMENTS CONTACT. HEMATITE GOSSAN MARKS THE SURFACE TREND OF THE VEIN

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1982 Messenger, Harold M. III Utah Geological and Mineral Survey

Beyond USGS

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