The Lucky Boy is a mercury mine located in Piute county, Utah.
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Lucky Boy MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Lucky Boy
Commodity
Primary: Mercury
Secondary: Selenium
Secondary: Gold
Secondary: Tellurium
Tertiary: Zinc
Tertiary: Manganese
Tertiary: Barium-Barite
Location
State: Utah
County: Piute
District: Mt. Baldy Dist./Ohio District/Mercur District
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: Deer Trail Mining Co.
Years: 1944 -
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Replacement
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1881
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Colorado Plateaus
Physiographic Section: High Plateaus Of Utah
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Form: TABULAR LENS
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Argillic
Rocks
Name: Limestone
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Permian
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Cinnabar
Gangue: Calcite
Gangue: Pyrite
Gangue: Barite
Unknown: Sphalerite
Comments
Not available
References
Reference (Deposit): U.S. 88TH CONGRESS 2ND SESS. 1964 COMM. INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS, COMM. PRINT 26-976
Reference (Deposit): MCCASKEY, H.D., 1912, QUICKSILVER IN 1911, PRODUCTION AND RESOURCES, ADVANCE CHAPTER FROM MINERAL RESOURCES OF UNITED STATES FOR 1911, P. 28-29.
Reference (Deposit): BAILEY, E.H., USGS, PERSONAL FILES
Reference (Production): USBM DATA
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