Honorine Drain Tunnel

Past Producer in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, Zinc, Iron, 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10103862
MRDS ID M058463
Record type Site
Current site name Honorine Drain Tunnel

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.3672, 40.46688 (WGS84)
Elevation 1500
Relative position 2,600 FT S 32 W OF BAUER

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Stockton(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Rush Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rush-Tooele Valleys(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 Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 004S 005W 13 NW OF SW OF SW Utah

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :1977

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Zinc Critical Secondary
Iron Secondary
Copper Secondary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chlorite Gangue
Diopside Gangue
Dolomite Gangue
Epidote Gangue
Fluorite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Wollastonite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Rock unit name Raddatz Porphyry
    Rock description Raddatz Porphyry
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Eocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pennsylvanian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Eocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pennsylvanian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Oquirrh
    Rock description Oquirrh

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.3672, 40.46688

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Between Ophir Anticline And Pole Canyon Syncline

Ore body information

  • General form PIPE, TABULAR

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Large
Significant No
Discovery year 1865
Discoverer General Connor

Mining district

District name Rush Valley District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Combined Metals Reduction Co.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Anaconda Co.
    Home office C/O Carr Fork Project, P.O. Box 238, Tooele, Ut. 84074

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 15240M

Comments on the workings information

  • LENGTH AS OF 1932 EXCLUSIVE OF STOPES. DRAIN TUNNEL IS 13,000 FT LONG AND INTERSECTS 1200 LEVEL OF THE MINE

Comments on development

  • CONSOLIDATED INTO BULLION COALITION IN 1910, CONSISTED OF 77 CLAIMS AND FRACTIONS, TAKEN OVER IN 1924 BY COMBINED METALS REDUCTION CO. ON AN OPTION

Reference information

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1982 Tripp, Bryce T. Utah Geological and Mineral Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

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