Mine detail: Utah Mine

Previously called 'Mill-JohnFish Mine'

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Location

Lat / long:

39.85688, -113.45639

Resource(M)

Primary:	Lead, Silver
Secondary:	Zinc
Tertiary:	Copper, Gold
Ore:	Anglesite, Aurichalcite, Calamine, Cerargyrite, Covellite, Galena, Hydrozincite, Limonite, Plumbojarosite, Smithsonite, Sphalerite, Vanadinite, Willemite, Wulfenite
Orebody form:	LENTICULAR
Discovery year:	1890

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
Production years:	1891 - 1917 , 1950

Geology

Host rock:	Bell Hill Dolomite;Lost Sheep Dolomite
Host type:	Dolomite,Chert
Associated rock:	Rhyolite Dike
Associated type:	Rhyolite
Structure:	Basin & Range/Sevier Orogenic Structures Including A Ne Trending Asymmetrical Anticline, The Juab Fault Zone & Other Fractures Which Strike N 70 W & East-West
Tectonic:	Sevier Orogenic Belt
Alteration processes:	Alteration Is Not Import. & Does Not Help In Location

References

MRDS	DC13181
DEP	10020409
Reference	{Deposit:: PERRY, L. I., & MCCARTHY, B. M., 1976, LEAD & ZINC IN UTAH: UTAH GEOL. & MIN. SURVEY OPEN FILE RPT. #22.}{Deposit:: HEYL, A. V., 1963, OXIDIZED ZN DEPOSITS OF UT: USGS BULL. 1135-B}{Deposit:: OLIVEIRA, M. E., 1975, GEOLOGY OF FISH SPRINGS MINING DISTRICT: BYU GEOLOGY STUDIES V. 22, PT. 1}{Deposit:: CHRISTENSEN, W. J., 1977, FISH SPRINGS MINING DISTRICT: UNIV. OF UTAH MS THESIS}{Deposit:: BURANEK, A.L., AND CRAWFORD, A.L., 1942, PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE MILLJOHN SILVER-LEAD MINING CLAIM, FISH SPRINGS DISTRICT, JUAB COUNTY, UTAH: UTAH DEPARTMENT OF PUBLICITY AND IND. DEV. CIRC. #10.}{Deposit:: 1920 RECON BUTLER, B. S., USGS PP 111}{Deposit:: 1963 RECON HEYL, A. V., USGS BULL. 1135-B}{Deposit:: 1975 RECON BYU GEOLOGY STUDIES V. 22}{Deposit:: 1976 RECON UTAH GEOL. & MIN. SURVEY OPEN FR #22}{Production:: BUTLER, B. S., AND OTHER, 1920, THE ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH: USGS BULL 111}
Reporter	Unknown, Everts, Mike L.