Mintintic Drill Hole 4

Occurrence in Juab county in Utah, United States with commodities Copper, Zinc, Lead
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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10090061
MRDS ID M058605
Record type Site
Current site name Mintintic Drill Hole 4
Alternate or previous names Longyear-Kennecott Hole

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.11662, 39.89189 (WGS84)
Elevation 1908
Relative position 3500 FT S 65 W OF TREASURE HILL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Juab(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Eureka(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lynndyl(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Delta(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Sevier(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Juab

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 011S 002W 06 SW OF SW Utah

Comments on the location information

  • TOP OF KNOLL NEAR SHAFT NUMBER 85 ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1977

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary
Lead Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chlorite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Sericite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Albitic, Clays

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.11662, 39.89189

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • ALTERATION PERVASIVE BUT NOT INTENSE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1943
Discoverer Donald Davidson And Don D. Smythe

Mining district

District name Tintic District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Kennecott Minerals Co.
    Home office Salt Lake, City Ut.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 526.08M

Comments on the workings information

  • DIAMOND DRILL HOLE COMPLETED MAY 1944

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MORRIS, H.T., AND LOVERING, T.S., 1979, GENERAL GEOLOGY AND MINES OF THE EAST TINTIC MINING DISTRICT, UTAH AND JUAB COUNTIES, UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 1024, 194 PP.

  • Deposit

    COOK, D.R., ED., 1957, GEOLOGY OF THE EAST TINTIC MOUNTAINS AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE TINTIC MINING DISTRICTS: UTAH GEOL. SOC. GUIDEBOOK, NO. 12, 183 P.

  • Deposit

    MORRIS, H.T., 1964, GEOLOGY OF THE EUREKA QUADRANGLE, UTAH AND JUAB COUNTIES, UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1142-K, P. K1-K29.

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN, WALDEMAR, AND LOUGHLIN, G.F., 1919, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE TINTIC MINING DISTRICT, UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 107, 276 PP.

  • Deposit

    LOG OF HOLE MINTINTIC-4 BY L.C. ARMSTRONG IN WRITER'S FILES. RELEASED BY PERMISSION OF LONG YEAR CO.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE CHANNEL IN UNDERLYING LIMESTONES WAS TARGET ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Deposit DRILL HOLE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1983 James, Laurence P. Utah Geological and Mineral Survey

Beyond USGS

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