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Queen of the West

Producer in Box Elder county in Utah, United States with commodities Zinc, Silver
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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. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10108676
MRDS ID DC13340
Record type Site
Current site name Queen of the West

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.99281, 41.47297 (WGS84)
Elevation 1597

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Box Elder(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lucin NW(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Newfoundland Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Brigham City(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 Box Elder

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 009N 019W;020W Utah

Comments on the location information

  • ESTIMATED LOCATION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Zinc Critical Primary
Silver Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Ore
Smithsonite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Ore Bodies Are Completely Oxidized

Analytical data

Result MAXIMUM ASSAY 18 % ZN, 80 OZ AG PER TON

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Devonian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.99281, 41.47297
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: LIMESTONE IS OVERLAIN BY QUARTZITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Tecoma District

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HEYL, A. V., OXIDIZED ZINC DEPOSITS OF THE U.S.; USGS BULL. 1135 - B, 1963 , P. 840

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSITS ARE IRREGULAR REPLACEMENTS ALONG NORTHWEST - STRIKING FISSURES NEAR THE AXIS OF A GENTLE NORTHWARD - TRENDING ANTICLINE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1974 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUN-1978 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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