Roy Mine

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, Iron
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. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10094843
MRDS ID DC15252
Record type Site
Current site name Roy Mine
Alternate or previous names Lead Carbonate

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.87112, 40.00715 (WGS84)
Elevation 2195
Relative position S FORK OF DRY CANYON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Clifton(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wildcat Mountain(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(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 009S 018W 33,27 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • CLAIMS: ROY NOS. 1 - 5 , SLEUTH LODE, COUNTY LODE, CAROLINE LODE, DIXIE LODE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Iron Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Malachite Ore
Smithsonite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore
Limestone Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Complete Oxidation At The Surface. Limestone Locally Dolomitized.

Analytical data

Result IN 8 TONS OF ORE IN 1917 : 18 OZ OF AG AND 37 % PB. 1973 - TRACE - 0.015 OZ/TON AU, 0.4 - 44.4 OZ/TON AG, 1 - 43 % PB

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.87112, 40.00715

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description A Large Transverse Fault Striking East Is Exposed 1/4 Mi. North.

Ore body information

  • General form BEDDED, VEINLETS & BLEBS
    Strike N 3 E
    Dip 35 - 40 W
    Length 3.05M
    Width 0.91M

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: ABERCROMBIE FM CONSIST OF THIN BEDDED TO MASSIVE LIMESTONE AND INTERBEDDED SHALE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Willow Springs District

Comments on the workings information

  • ELEVEN ADITS, TWO SHAFTS, ONE PROSPECT AND TWO INCLINE SHAFTS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NOLAN,T.B., 1935, THE GOLD HILL MINING DISTRICT: USGS PROF. PAPER 177, P. 167.

  • Deposit

    THOMSON, K. C., 1973 , MINERAL DEP. OF DEEP CK MTNS, TOOELE & JUAB CO., UTAH: UTAH GEOL & MINER SURV BULL 99 , P. 31 - 35

  • Deposit

    PERRY,L.I. & MCCARTHY,B.M., 1977, LEAD AND ZINC IN UTAH: UTAH GEOL. & MIN. SURV., ECON. GEOL. SECT., OPEN-FILE REPT. NO. 22, P. 473-477.

  • Deposit

    CONSV. COMP. DATE, 03-30-1955

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit PROSPECTING HAS ALSO BEEN DONE ON THE PROSPECT MT AND BUSBY QUARTZITES

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1975 Mc Coy, Gail U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1978 Wong, George (Tooker, Ed) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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