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Lucky Boy Mine

Past Producer in Piute county in Utah, United States with commodity Mercury
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  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. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10088077
MRDS ID DB00534
Record type Site
Current site name Lucky Boy Mine
Related records 10276937

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.27384, 38.38414 (WGS84)
Elevation 2402
Relative position 2 1/2 MILES NORTH BY NORTHWEST OF GIBBS SPRING. 1 MILE NORTHWEST OF THE MOUTH OF COTTONWOOD 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 11 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • NW 1/4 SE 1/4 SE 1/4 SECTION 11

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Calcite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Toroweap Formation
    Rock description Toroweap Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.27384, 38.38414
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Dome

Ore body information

  • General form LENS/POD
    Thickness 6.1M
    Length 30.48M
    Width 0.61M
    Depth to top 15.24M
    Depth to bottom 21.34M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fissures And Fractures

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Mt. Baldy Mining District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall length 30.48M
    Overall width 15.24M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF TWO SHORT DRIFTS, AND A BOWL SHAPED PIT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CALLAGHAN, E., 1973 , MINERAL RESOURCE POTENTIAL OF PIUTE COUNTY, UTAH, AND ADJOINING AREA: UTAH GEOL. & MIN. SURVEY BULL. 102 , P. 47 - 48

  • Production

    E. CALLAGHAN, 1973

Reporter information

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

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