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Picnic Mine

Past Producer in Juab county in Utah, United States with commodities Silver, Gold, Copper, Lead
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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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10102087
MRDS ID DC12873
Record type Site
Current site name Picnic Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.13162, 39.91189 (WGS84)
Elevation 1875
Relative position JUST NORTH OF SILVER CITY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Juab(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tintic Junction(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 36 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Primary
Copper Primary
Lead Secondary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.13162, 39.91189
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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

Mining district

District name Tintic District

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TOWER, G. W. AND SMITH, G. O., 1899 , GEOL & MIN IND OF TINTIC DISTRICT: USGS 19TH ANN REPT, PT 3 - F, P. 760

  • Deposit

    MORRIS, H. T., 1964 , GEOL OF THE TINTIC JUNCTION QUAD: USGS BULL 1142 - L, PL 1

  • Deposit

    COOK, D. R., 1957 , GEOL OF E TINTIC MTNS AND ORE DEP OF THE TINTIC MINING DIST: UTAH GEOL SOC GUIDEBOOK #12 , PL 3

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1974 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAR-1982 Wong, George (Morris, H.T.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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