Volunteer Gulch Incline

The Volunteer Gulch Incline is a zinc mine located in Box Elder county, Utah at an elevation of 5,446 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Volunteer Gulch Incline

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: 1981

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 (Reserve-Resource): RELIABLE INFORMATION OF THE ORE GRADE IS NOT AVAILABLE. FROM THE EVALUATION MADE BY THE UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY (ECONOMIC GEOLOGY SECTION) IT MAY BE ASSUMED THAT THE GRADE OF THE VOLUNTEER GULCH INCLINE ORE WAS 20-PER- CENT ZINC AND 15-PERCENT LEAD. THE ORE QUANTITY SHOWN CAME FROM STUDIES MADE BY THE UGMS IN RELATION WITH OPEN-FILE REPORT 22, 1976 AND FROM UPDATED PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS WITH UGMS (ECONOMIC GEOLOGY SECTION) PERSONNEL.

Comment (Deposit): FROM VARIOUS PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS WITH PERSONNEL OF THE ECONOMIC GEOLOGY SECTION, UGMS WHICH EVALUATED VOLUNTEER GULCH INCLINE, IT WAS CONCLUDED THAT THE MINE IS DEPLETED.

Comment (Ownership): THE LAKEVIEW MINING COMPANY, OWNER OF THE PROPERTY, HAS BEEN DIFFICULT TO TRACE AND PROBABLY IT IS DISSOLVED.

References

Reference (Deposit): 1980.

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): 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): PERRY, L.I., PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR AND CO-AUTHOR OF OPEN-

Reference (Deposit): 1980 AND JULY 1981.

Reference (Deposit): GICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY. PERSONAL COMMUNICATION, OCT. 27

Reference (Deposit): DOELLING, H.H. CHIEF ECONOMIC GEOLOGY SECTION, UTAH GEOLO-

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