Cunepah Tunnel

Past Producer in Box Elder county in Utah, United States with commodities Lead, Zinc, Silver, Copper, Gold
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. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10098023
MRDS ID DB02024
Record type Site
Current site name Cunepah Tunnel
Related records 10251298

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.02808, 41.19992 (WGS84)
Elevation 2134
Relative position 3/4 MILE NW OF PATTERSON PASS, WEST SLOPE OF PILOT RANGE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Box Elder(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Patterson Pass(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wells(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Wells(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Pilot-Thousand Springs, Nevada, Utah(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

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 33 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • NW NE QUARTER

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Tertiary
Gold Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Anglesite Ore
Galena Ore
Hemimorphite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Goethite Gangue
Limestone Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Limonitization

Analytical data

Result GRAB SAMPLES: PB 7 - 25 %, ZN 4 - 12 %, AG UP TO 0.8 OZ/TON

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Rock unit name Patterson Pass Stock
    Rock description Patterson Pass Stock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Devonian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Devonian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Guilmette Limestone
    Rock description Guilmette Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.02808, 41.19992

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR TO TABULAR
    Strike NE
    Dip 40 DEG SE
    Thickness 0.61M
    Length 91.44M
    Width 60.96M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Favorable Bed Or Bedding Plane

Comments on the geologic information

  • STOCK IS 3/4 TO 1 MILE AWAY

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

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 213.36M

Comments on the workings information

  • ALSO A FEW PROSPECT PITS, SHAFTS AND SHORT ADITS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: UGMS FILES

  • Deposit

    SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD, 1964 , MINERALS FOR INDUSTRY - NORTHERN NEVADA & NORTHWESTERN UTAH: SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO. P. 112 .

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    1964 RECON SOUTHERN PACIFIC RR - PUBLICATION

  • Deposit

    1973 MINEMAP UTAH GEOL & MINERAL SURVEY

  • Reserve-Resource

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

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit FAVORABLE LIMESTONE BED. DIP RANGES 36 TO 45 DEG SE

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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