The Pete's Tunnel is a zinc mine located in Box Elder county, Utah at an elevation of 5,413 feet.
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All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.
Mine Info
Elevation: 5,413 Feet (1,650 Meters)
Commodity: Zinc
Lat, Long: 41.2592, -112.46330
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Pete's Tunnel MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Pete's Tunnel
Commodity
Primary: Zinc
Tertiary: Lead
Location
State: Utah
County: Box Elder
District: Promontory
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
Type: Patented
Workings
Type: Underground
Ownership
Owner Name: Lakeview Mining Co.
Percent: 100.0
Info Year: 1976
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Underground
Mining Method: Unknown
Year First Production: 1915
Discovery Year: 1914
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Great Basin
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Unknown: Smithsonite
Unknown: Hemimorphite
Unknown: Cerussite
Comments
Comment (Ownership): THE LAKEVIEW MINING COMPANY HAS BEEN DIFFICULT TO TRACE AND IS PROBABLY DISSOLVED. THIS STATEMENT WAS MADE ON OCT. 27, 1980 BY H.H. DOELLING, CHIEF ECONOMIC GEOLOGY SECTION, UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY (UGMS).
Comment (Reserve-Resource): RELIABLE INFORMATION WITH RESPECT TO THE ORE GRADE IN QUANTITY MATRIX ONE IS NOT AVAILABLE. FROM THE UGMS EVALUATION IT MAY BE ROUGHLY ASSUMED THAT THE GRADE WAS ABOUT 20-PERCENT ZN AND 15-PERCENT PB. THE ORE QUANTITIES SHOWN COME FROM STUDIES MADE BY THE UGMS IN CONNECTION WITH OPEN FILE REPORT 22, 1976 AND FROM PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS WITH UGMS (ECONOMIC GEOLOGY SECTION) PERSONNEL.
References
Reference (Deposit): DOELLING, H.H. CHIEF ECONOMIC GEOLOGY SECTION, UTAH GEO-
Reference (Deposit): LOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY. PERSONAL COMMUNICATION, OCT.
Reference (Deposit): SEPT. 3, 1981.
Reference (Deposit): GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY. PERSONAL COMMUNICATION,
Reference (Deposit): TRIPP, B.T. STAFF GEOLOGIST, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY SECTION, UTAH
Reference (Deposit): BUREAU OF MINES GRANT NO. GO264006, PP. 134-142.
Reference (Deposit): ECONOMIC GEOLOGY SECTION. UGMS OPEN-FILE REPORT 22. U.S.
Reference (Deposit): PROMONTORY DISTRICT. UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY
Reference (Deposit): 1980
Reference (Deposit): PERRY,L.I. AND B.M. MCCARTHY. LEAD AND ZINC IN UTAH, 1976
Reference (Deposit): FILE REPORT 22 (UGMS). PERSONAL COMMUNICATION, OCT. 30,
Reference (Deposit): 27, 1980 AND JULY 1981.
Reference (Deposit): PERRY, L.I., PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR AND CO-AUTHOR OF OPEN-
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