Bully Boy Mine

Past Producer in Piute county in Utah, United States with commodities Silver, Gold, Lead, Zinc, Copper
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. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10088068
MRDS ID DB00511
Record type Site
Current site name Bully Boy Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.33078, 38.4108 (WGS84)
Elevation 2438
Relative position 5 1/2 MILES NORTHEAST OF MUD LAKE - ALONG BULLION CANYON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Piute(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Brigham(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Beaver(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Sevier(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Fishlake 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 Piute

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 028S 004W 05 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • NORTHEAST 1/4 OF SECTION 5

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Primary
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Primary
Copper Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Chrysocolla Ore
Galena Ore
Gold Ore
Malachite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Silver Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore
Barite Gangue
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result SAMPLE ASSAY: .030 % CU .59 % PB .036 % ZN 34 PPM MO 5.41 OZ/TON AG .080 OZ/TON AU

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Latite
    Rock unit name Bullion Canyon Volcanics
    Rock description Bullion Canyon Volcanics
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Navajo Sandstone
    Rock description Navajo Sandstone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.33078, 38.4108

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Dome
Type of structure Local
Structure description North Trending Discontinuous Faults

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 15 DEG E
    Dip 73 DEG W
    Length 487.68M
    Width 1.22M
    Depth to top 30.48M
    Depth to bottom 167.64M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Quartz Veins, Fault Zones

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Discovery year 1868

Mining district

District name Ohio Mining District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Deer Train Development Co.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 1828.8M
    Overall depth 213.36M

Comments on the workings information

  • CAVED AT PORTAL, INACCESSABLE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: 2 FOOT CHIP SAMPLE ACROSS QUARTZ VEIN

  • Deposit

    CALLAGHAN, E., 1973 , MINERAL RESOURCE POTENTIAL OF PIUTE COUNTY, UTAH, AND ADJOINING AREAS: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURVEY BULL. 102 , P. 33 - 36

  • Deposit

    BULLOCK, K. C., 1976 , FLOURITE OCCURRENCES IN UTAH: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY BULL. 110 , P. 67 - 68

  • Production

    PERRY, L. I., 1978

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1978 Perry, Lee I. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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