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Imperial Lead Mine

Past Producer in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Lead, Zinc
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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. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10088983
MRDS ID RE00185
Record type Site
Current site name Imperial Lead Mine
Alternate or previous names Doller Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.74303, 39.90216 (WGS84)
Elevation 1835
Relative position ON THE TOOELE AND JUAB COUNTY LINE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Juab(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Indian Springs(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lynndyl(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Delta(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Southern 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 Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 11S 8W 03 NW OF NW Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Calcite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • 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);
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.74303, 39.90216
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
  • General form TABULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Bedding

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Erickson District

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Roy Hintze, Jackson Folmer
  • Type Owner
    Owner Noranda Exploration, Inc.

Comments on the production information

  • VERY LIMITED PRODUCTION,NO FIGURES AVAILABLE, FOR 1915, 1927, 1928.

Comments on the workings information

  • FIVE SHAFT ADITS WITH ASSOCIATED OPEN CUTS AND PITS. THE TOTAL LENGTH OF DRIFTING IS APPROX. 500 FT. (USBM, 1948).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, 1948, MINERAL PROPERTY FILE 37.47.

  • Deposit

    COHENOUR, R.B.,1959, SHEEPROCK MOUNTAINS, TOOELE AND JUAB COUNTIES, UTAH: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY BULL. 63.

  • Production

    USGS, MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE U.S., 1924-1928; USBM MINERAL PROPARTY FILE 37.47

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1982 Messenger, Harold M. III Utah Geological and Mineral Survey

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

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