Lower Vindicator Canyon Mines

Past Producer in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Lead, Zinc, Silver
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. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10101711
MRDS ID D007697
Record type Site
Current site name Lower Vindicator Canyon Mines

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.81388, 40.89576 (WGS84)
Elevation 1570
Relative position 1 MILE WEST OF VINDICATOR-CRANER CANYON CONFLUENCE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Craner Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Northern 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 002N 009W 24 NE OF SW OF NW Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Primary
Silver Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Smithsonite Ore
Calcite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Nounan-St Charles Formation;Garden City Formation
    Rock description Nounan-St Charles Formation;Garden City Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.81388, 40.89576

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Mineralized Faults

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Lakeside Mining District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION FIGURES NOT KNOWN

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 304.8M
    Overall length 36.58M
    Overall width 15.24M

Comments on the workings information

  • DEVELOPED BY TWO MAJOR SHAFTS, SIX ADITS AND FIVE SMALL PROSPECTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, H.H., 1964. GEOL. OF THE N. END OF THE LAKESIDE MTNS. AND THE GRASSY MTNS. AND THE ADJACENT AREA: UNIV. OF UTAH PH.D. THESIS.

  • Deposit

    TRIPP, B.T., 1980. ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURV.

  • Deposit

    1964 GEOLMAP UNIV. OF UTAH PH.D THESI

  • Production

    TRIPP, B.T., 1980. ON SITE INVESTIGATORS: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURV.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1980 Doelling, Hellmut H. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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