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Lead Hill Main Adit

Past Producer in Box Elder 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. 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. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10098073
MRDS ID DC13300
Record type Site
Current site name Lead Hill Main Adit
Alternate or previous names Sunshine Mining Co

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.46249, 41.25604 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Box Elder(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pokes Point(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Promontory Point(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Brigham City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Curlew Valley(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

BLM Administrative Area(land status)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Box Elder

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 006N 005W 07,18 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Lead Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation Of Minerals

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Lakeview Limestone
    Rock description Lakeview Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.46249, 41.25604
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Production years 1916

Mining district

District name Promontory Point District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the production information

  • 15 CARLOADS

Comments on the workings information

  • ONE LARGE IRREGULAR TUNNEL REACHED BY MEANS OF TWO SHAFTS WHICH ARE ABOUT 50 FT. DEEP AND 100 FT. APART.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SIEGFUS, 1924, A RECONNAISSANCE OF THE PROMENTORY POINT MINING DIST., UNIV. OF UTAH M.S. THESIS

  • Deposit

    SIEGFUSS, S. S., A RECON. OF THE PROMONTORY PT MINING DISTRICT: UTAH, UNIV. BULL 15 , NO. 2 , 1925 , P. 69

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1974 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-SEP-1982 Wong, George (Tooker, Ed) U.S. Geological Survey

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

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