Bully Boy and Webster Mine

Past Producer in Piute county in Utah, United States with commodities Copper, Fluorine-Fluorite, Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Ore body information
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Mineral rights holdings
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10252015
MAS/MILS ID 0490310042
Record type Site
Current site name Bully Boy and Webster Mine

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -112.32828, 38.40887 (WGS84)
Elevation 2410
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Piute(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Brigham(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Beaver(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Sevier(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Fishlake National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Piute

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary
Gold Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Silver Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Anglesite Unknown
Azurite Unknown
Barite Unknown
Calcite Unknown
Chabazite Unknown
Chalcocite Unknown
Chalcopyrite Unknown
Chrysocolla Unknown
Covellite Unknown
Fluorite Unknown
Galena Unknown
Gold Unknown
Malachite Unknown
Quartz Unknown
Smithsonite Unknown
Tetrahedrite Unknown
Wulfenite Unknown

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -112.32828, 38.40887

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N15E
    Dip 73W
    Thickness 1.5M
    Length 1000M
    Width 200M
    Area 32HA
    Depth to top 300M
    Field Value
    Type of Orebody #1 FISSURE VEIN
    Shape of Orebody #1 TABULAR
    Primary mode of Origin HYDROTHERMAL
    Secondary mode of Origin OXIDATION
    Primary Ore Control FAULTING
    Degree of Wallrock Alter. UNKNOWN
    Type of Wallrock Alter. #1 UNKNOWN
    Strike And Dip N15E:73W
    Minimum Depth to Top 0
    Avg. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 2
    Min. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 0
    Total Surface Area (HA) 32
    Date of Last Modification 780213

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Significant No
Discovery year 1886

Mining district

District name Ohio

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Patented

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Deer Trail Development Corp.2121 So. State St. Slc
    Interest 100
    Home office Utah
    Year 1976

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 1830M
    Field Value
    MAS Development Schedule # 1
    Mining Record # 1
    Mining Method OPEN STOPE
    Hardness of Rock SOFT NONPLASTIC FISSURED EXCESSIVE WATER
    Rock Characteristics NONCOHERENT
    Rock Support Chars. SUPPORTING WHEN DRY
    Mine Support Chars. CHEMICAL COATING
    Avg. Length of Adits (m) 40
    Number of Adits 4
    1st Condition of Workings OPEN
    2nd Condition of Workings CAVED AT PORTAL
    3rd Condition of Workings PART ACCESSIBLE
    Capacity Units MT ORE/DAY
    Units of Production $/MT ORE
    Year of Information 1976

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CALLAGHAN, E., 1973, MINERAL RESOURCES POTENTIAL OF PIUTE CO

  • Deposit

    TAH AND ADJOINING AREA: UTAH GMS BULL. 102, P. 31-37

  • Deposit

    BULLOCK, K.C., 1976, FLUORITE OCCURENCES IN UTAH: UTAH GMS B

  • Deposit

    0, P. 67-68

  • Deposit

    BUTLER, B.S., 1920, THE ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH: USGS PRO. PAPE

  • Deposit

    P. 556

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 21-MAY-87 Utah Geological And Mineral Survey Utah Geological and Mineral Survey

Beyond USGS

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