Homber Mines

Occurrence in Box Elder county in Utah, United States with commodities Lead, Zinc, Silver, Graphite, 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. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10088329
MRDS ID DB01737
Record type Site
Current site name Homber Mines
Related records 10300248

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.00109, 41.45243 (WGS84)
Elevation 1646
Relative position IN PERRY CANYON, 2 1/2 MILES EAST OF US HIGHWAY 89-91-30S (OLD HIGHWAY)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Box Elder(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Willard(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Promontory Point(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Brigham City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Bear-Malad(hydrologic unit)

Lower Bear(hydrologic accounting unit)

Bear(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 Box Elder

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 008N 001W 06 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS SW 1/4 SE 1/4 SW 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary
Silver Tertiary
Graphite Critical Tertiary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Lead Ore
Malachite Ore
Schist Ore
Limonite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result C45 = VOLATILES + MOISTURE
Result C47 MAX. TESTED. GRAB SAMPLES 0.8 PERCENT PB, 1.8 PERCENT ZN AND 0.92 PERCENT AG

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
    Rock unit name Formation Of Perry Canyon
    Rock description Formation Of Perry Canyon
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.00109, 41.45243

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike NE
    Dip 30 DEG NW
    Thickness 6.1M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Quartz Veins And Carbonaceous Schist

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Willard

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Homber Mining Co

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 259.08M
    Overall length 109.73M
    Overall width 36.58M

Comments on the workings information

  • 3 ADITS, ONE ABOVE THE OTHER

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: GALE, 1910 , P. 640 AND UGMS FILES ( 4 SAMPLE AVG. )

  • Deposit

    GALE, H. S., 1910 , SUPPOSED GRAPHITE DEPOSITS NEAR BRIGHAM, UTAH: USGS BULL. 430 - J, P. 639 - 640

  • Deposit

    1910 RECON GALE, BULL. 430

  • Deposit

    1973 RECON UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY FILE DATA

  • Reserve-Resource

    DOELLING, H. H., 1979 , UTAH GEOL. AND MINERALOG. SURVEY ON-SITE INVESTIGATION

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DIP VARIES 20 TO 40 DEG NW

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1979 Doelling, Hellmut H. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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