The Metal Queen Mine is a lead mine located in Tooele county, Utah at an elevation of 8,081 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 8,081 Feet (2,463 Meters)
Commodity: Lead
Lat, Long: 40.51028, -112.59833
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Metal Queen Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Metal Queen Mine
Commodity
Primary: Lead
Secondary: Silver
Tertiary: Zinc
Location
State: Utah
County: Tooele
District: Third Term
Land Status
Land ownership: National Forest
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Type: Underground
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1939
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Great Basin
Physiographic Detail: Basin And Mountains, Stansbury Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Form: LENTICULAR AND TABULAR
Structure
Type: R
Description: Deseret Anticline
Type: L
Description: North-South And East-West Faults Of Small Net Slip
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Dolomite
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Mississippian
Name: Dolomite
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Mississippian
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Galena
Gangue: Calcite
Gangue: Limonite
Comments
Comment (Workings): THE WORKINGS CONSIST OF FOUR ADITS: THE PRINCIPAL ADIT TOTALS 403 FT., INCLUDING DRIFTS AND CROSSCUTS; THE OTHER ADITS ARE 55 FT., 35 FT. AND 15 FT. LONG. THE 55 FT. LONG ADIT IS APPROX. 45 FT. WEST OF THE PRINCIPAL ADIT. THE SHORT ADITS ARE APPROX. 50 FT. ABOVE THE MAIN WORKINGS.
Comment (Location): (PROJ.) SEC. 35
Comment (Development): THE U.S. BUREAU OF MINES FIELD WORK (1980) WAS PART OF A MINERAL RESOURCES EVALUATION OF A RARE II AREA (04-757) IN THE STANSBURY. MTNS. SECTION (GRANTSVILLE DIV.) OF THE WASATCH NATIONAL FOREST.
Comment (Deposit): THE ONLY GALENA MINERALIZATION SEEN AT THE MINE WAS IN ONE SHALLOW ADIT ABOVE THE PRINCIPAL ADIT, AS DISSEMINATED GRAINS IN A BRECCIA ZONE.
Comment (Geology): NEAR THE UNCONFORMABLE GARDNER DOLOMITE-PINE CANYON LIMESTONE CONTACT.
References
Reference (Deposit): MESSENGER, H.M. III, 1980, ON-SITE-INVESTIGATION,: UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY
Reference (Deposit): RIGBY, J.L., 1958, GEOLOGY OF THE STANSBURY MOUNTAINS: GUIDEBOOK TO THE GEOLOGY OF UTAH, NO. 13, UTAH GEOL. SOCIETY, P. 127
Reference (Deposit): U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, 1940, MINERALS YEARBOOK, P. 454, 462.
Reference (Deposit): U.S. BUREAU OF MINES WAR MINERALS REPORT
Reference (Deposit): 1980 GEOLMAP UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY
Reference (Deposit): 1980 RECON U.S. BUREAU OF MINES-DENVER
Reference (Production): U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, 1940, MINERALS YEARBOOK, P. 454, 462
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