| 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: | -112.51274, 39.95133 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Elevation | 2359 |
| Relative position | IN THE HEAD OF THE MIDDLE FORK OF COTTONWOOD CANYON |
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)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Utah | Tooele |
| Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salt Lake | 10S | 6W | 15 | NW | Utah |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Lead | Primary |
| Zinc Critical | Primary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Galena | Ore |
| Sphalerite | Ore |
| Pyrite | Gangue |
| Quartz | Gangue |
| Sericite | Gangue |
| Specularite | Gangue |
| Host or associated | Associated | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite | ||||
| Rock unit name | Sheeprock Granite; | ||||
| Rock description | Sheeprock Granite; | ||||
| |||||
| 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); |
| (1) | -112.51274, 39.95133 |
|---|
| Type of structure | Regional |
|---|---|
| Structure description | Basin And Range |
| General form | TABULAR |
|---|
| General form | TABULAR |
|---|
| Development status | Past Producer |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Deposit size | Small |
| Significant | No |
| District name | Columbia District |
|---|
| Type of workings | Surface/Underground |
|---|---|
| Length | 228.6M |
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | RE00213 |
COHENOUR, R.E., 1959, SHEEPROCK MOUNTAINS, TOOELE AND JUAB COUNTIES: UGMS BULL. 63 P. 117
U.S. BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, 1981, MINERAL SURVEY NO. 6734, UTAH STATE OFFICE, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH
U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, 1945, MINERALS YEARBOOK, P. 476
U.S.G.S., 1918, MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE UNITED STATES, P. 402
USGS, MINERAL RES. OF U.S., 1918, P. 402; USBM, MINERALS YEARBOOK, 1945, P. 476
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | THE MINERALIZED FISSURES PARALLEL THE SHEEPROCK GRANITE- PRECAMBRIAN METASEDIMENTS CONTACT. HEMATITE GOSSAN MARKS THE SURFACE TREND OF THE VEIN |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 01-MAR-1982 | Messenger, Harold M. III | Utah Geological and Mineral Survey |
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