Mine detail: Mineral Mountain Mine No. 1

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

41.24548, -114.03086

Resource(B)

Primary:	Lead, Silver, Zinc
Tertiary:	Barium-Barite
Ore:	Anglesite, Barite, Hemimorphite, Smithsonite
Gangue:	Goethite, Limonite
Orebody form:	VEINS IN FAULT FISSURES OR VERTICAL PIPES AT FISSURE INTERSECTIONS

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
Production years:	1917

Geology

Host rock:	Laketown Dolomite
Host type:	Limestone
Associated type:	Quartz Monzonite
Alteration processes:	Heavy Limonitization

References

MRDS	DC12635
DEP	10020138
Reference	{Deposit:: BUTLER,B.S., AND OTHERS, 1920, ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH: USGS PROF. PAPER 111, P. 493.}{Deposit:: HEYL,A.V., 1963, OXIDIZED ZINC DEPOSITS OF THE U.S.: USGS BULL. 1135-B, P. 34-37.}{Deposit:: SALT LAKE MINING REVIEW, NOV. 30, 1910, P. 30.}{Deposit:: PERRY,L.I. & MCCARTHY,B.M., 1977, LEAD AND ZINC IN UTAH: UTAH GEOL. & MIN. SURV., ECON. GEOL. SECT., OPEN-FILE REPT. NO. 22, P. 116-117.}
Reporter	Unknown, Wong, George (Tooker, Ed), Spanski, Gregory T.