Lucky Boy

The Lucky Boy is a mercury mine located in Piute county, Utah.

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Mine Info

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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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