The Mintintic Drill Hole 4 is a mine located in Juab county, Utah at an elevation of 6,260 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 6,260 Feet (1,908 Meters)
Commodity:
Lat, Long: 39.89194, -112.11583
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Mintintic Drill Hole 4 MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Mintintic Drill Hole 4
Secondary: Longyear-Kennecott Hole
Commodity
Tertiary: Copper
Tertiary: Zinc
Tertiary: Lead
Location
State: Utah
County: Juab
District: Tintic District
Land Status
Land ownership: Private
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
Owner Name: Kennecott Minerals Co.
Home Office: Salt Lake, City Ut.
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1943
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral Not 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: Thomas Mountains - Tintic Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Albitic, Clays
Rocks
Name: Tuff
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Oligocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Gangue: Chlorite
Gangue: Sericite
Gangue: Pyrite
Comments
Comment (Geology): ALTERATION PERVASIVE BUT NOT INTENSE
Comment (Workings): DIAMOND DRILL HOLE COMPLETED MAY 1944
Comment (Deposit): ORE CHANNEL IN UNDERLYING LIMESTONES WAS TARGET ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Comment (Location): TOP OF KNOLL NEAR SHAFT NUMBER 85 ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1977
Comment (Deposit): DRILL HOLE
References
Reference (Deposit): MORRIS, H.T., AND LOVERING, T.S., 1979, GENERAL GEOLOGY AND MINES OF THE EAST TINTIC MINING DISTRICT, UTAH AND JUAB COUNTIES, UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 1024, 194 PP.
Reference (Deposit): COOK, D.R., ED., 1957, GEOLOGY OF THE EAST TINTIC MOUNTAINS AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE TINTIC MINING DISTRICTS: UTAH GEOL. SOC. GUIDEBOOK, NO. 12, 183 P.
Reference (Deposit): MORRIS, H.T., 1964, GEOLOGY OF THE EUREKA QUADRANGLE, UTAH AND JUAB COUNTIES, UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1142-K, P. K1-K29.
Reference (Deposit): LINDGREN, WALDEMAR, AND LOUGHLIN, G.F., 1919, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE TINTIC MINING DISTRICT, UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 107, 276 PP.
Reference (Deposit): LOG OF HOLE MINTINTIC-4 BY L.C. ARMSTRONG IN WRITER'S FILES. RELEASED BY PERMISSION OF LONG YEAR CO.
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