Governors Loop

Past Producer in Box Elder county in Utah, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, 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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  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. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10088423
MRDS ID DB02043
Record type Site
Current site name Governors Loop
Related records 10129887

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.00336, 41.25603 (WGS84)
Elevation 2042
Relative position SOUTHEAST SLOPE BALD EAGLE MTN, 3/4 MILE NE OF GOVERNORS SPRING

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Box Elder(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tecoma(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wells(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Wells(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Northern Great Salt Lake Desert(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management UT)

Bureau of Land Management UT BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Box Elder

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 006N 019W 03,10 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS SE 1/4 SE 1/4 SE 1/4 3 , AND E 1/2 NE NE 10

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Hemimorphite Ore
Smithsonite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Clay Gangue
Limonite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Limonitization

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.00336, 41.25603

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR, SHEET - LIKE
    Thickness 0.61M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fissures, Favorable Bedding Planes, Fault Zones

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Lucin Mining District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner J. V. Stoddard
    Home office Hooper

Comments on the production information

  • PERHAPS SEVERAL TONS OF PB - AG ORE

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • PERHAPS A FEW TONS OF ORE REMAIN IN MINES.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 220.98M

Comments on the workings information

  • 3 ADITS; 225 AND 500 FT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BLUE, D. M., 1960 , GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE LUCIN MINING DISTRICT, BOX ELDER COUNTY, UTAH AND ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA: UNIV. OF UTAH MS THESIS.

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, H. H., IN PREPARATION, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF BOX ELDER COUNTY, UTAH: UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY BULLETIN.

  • Deposit

    1973 MINEMAP UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVE

  • Production

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

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 3 SCATTERED AREAS OF MINERALIZATION

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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