Buckeye Prospect

Occurrence in Juab county in Utah, United States with commodities Silver, Lead, Zinc, 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. Geologic structures
  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 10095614
MRDS ID M058479
Record type Site
Current site name Buckeye Prospect
Alternate or previous names Panacea Claim Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.09996, 39.87245 (WGS84)
Elevation 1957
Relative position 3,400 FT N 54 W OF SUNRISE PEAK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Juab(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tintic Mountain(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 18 SE OF NE OF NE Utah

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :1975

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Primary
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Malachite Ore
Smithsonite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Rock unit name Monzonite Porphyry Of The Sunrise Peak Stock
    Rock description Monzonite Porphyry Of The Sunrise Peak Stock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.09996, 39.87245

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Within Tintic Mountain Caldera
Type of structure Local
Structure description N 53 E Trending Fault Cuts Between Lower And Upper Adits

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • N 25 E Trending Quartz Vein

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Tintic District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Tintic Bullion Corp

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 914.4M

Comments on the workings information

  • LOWER ADIT COLLAPSED BUT WITH APPROXIMATELY 2000 FT. OF WORKINGS, SHAFT COLLAPSED PROBABLY 1000 FT. OF WORKINGS WITH A S52E TRENDING ADIT NEARBY

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN, W. AND LOUGHLIN, G.F., 1919, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE TINTIC MINING DISTRICT, UTAH: USGS PROF. PA. 107, 282 P.

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    TRIPP, B.T., 1982, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UGMS.

  • Deposit

    MORRIS, H.T., 1975, GEOLOGIC MAP AND SECTIONS OF THE TINTIC MOUNTAIN QUADRANGLE AND ADJACENT PARTS OF THE MCINTYRE QUADRANGLE, JUAB AND UTAH COUNTIES, UTAH: USGS MAP I-883

  • Deposit

    HIGGINS, W.C., 1900, THE SALT LAKE MINING REVIEW, APRIL 30, P. 8.

  • Deposit

    HIGGINS, W.C., 1901, THE SALT LAKE MINING REVIEW, MARCH 15, P. 14.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CRYSTALLINE TO SUGARY TEXTURED QUARTZ VEINS CONTAINING IRREGULAR PODS OF OXIDIZED ORE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1982 Tripp, Bryce T. Utah Geological and Mineral Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references