Ridge and Valley Mine

Past Producer in Juab county in Utah, United States with commodities Silver, Lead, Zinc
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. Ore body information
  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 10098076
MRDS ID DC14048
Record type Site
Current site name Ridge and Valley Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.1219, 39.95828 (WGS84)
Elevation 1975
Relative position 5700 FT. S 3 E OF PACKARD PEAK

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 010S 003W 13 NE OF SW OF NE Utah

Comments on the location information

  • ALMOST WITHIN TOWN OF EUREKA ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1977

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • RECORDED OF PRODUCER OF OXIDIZED ZN ORE 1912-13 AND 1915-1917

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cerussite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Pinyon Peak Limestone;Victoria
    Rock description Pinyon Peak Limestone;Victoria
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian

Nearby scientific data

(1) Maxfield Limestone and Ophir Formation

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N
    Dip 90
    Plunge direction N

Comments on the geologic information

  • ORE FOLLOWS VERTICAL BEDS AND BEDDING PLANE FAULTS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Tintic District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Gemni Mining Co.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Chief Consolidated Mining Co.
    Home office New York, Ny.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 1219.2M
    Overall depth 548.64M

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFT APPARENTLY CONNECTED WITH EXTENSIVE WORKINGS TO SOUTH. NO DATA AVAILABLE ON DEPTH.

Comments on development

  • LEAD ZINC ORE SUBSTANTIAL OUTPUT 1914

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

    HEYL, A.V., 1963, OXIDIZED ZINC DEPOSITS OF THE UNITED STATES, PART 2: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1135-B.

  • Deposit

    MORRIS, H.T., 1968, ORE DEPOSITS OF MAIN TINTIC DISTRICT, UTAH, IN RIDGE, J.D., ED., GRATON-SALES VOLUME, A.I.M.E., NEW YORK, PP. 1043-1073.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit FOUR SUBZONES OR CHANNELS WERE MOVED OR EXPLORED HERE AND TO SOUTH SMALL COMPARED TO ADJACENT GEMINI.
Deposit THIS IS NORTHERNMOST MINE ON GEMINI ORE CHANNEL. MINES WAS ABANDONED AT ELEVATION 4500 FT. BECAUSE ORE DIMINISHED AND WATER INFLOW INCREAED. ; INFO.SRC : 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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

External references