Cannonville Mining District, Kane County, Utah, USAi

Regional Level Types
Cannonville Mining District	Mining District
Kane County	County
Utah	State
USA	Country

The Cannonville district is in north-central Kane County, 12 mi south-southeast of Tropic. The district encompasses three small sediment-hosted Cu and Pb prospects and had an insignificant amount of Pb production in the 1930s (Doelling and others, 1989).
The Cannonville district is situated in the Grand Staircase section of the Colorado Plateau. All prospects are hosted in the Thousand Pockets Tongue of the Middle Jurassic Page Sandstone. The Rock Springs Pb ±Cu deposit is the site of the minor historical Pb production in the district. The workings consist of a short shaft and adit. The mineralization was in small, limonite- stained, irregular pods in the yellow sandstone. A select sample of mineralized material at Rock Springs contained >2% Pb, 1.9% Zn, and 20 ppm Ag (U.S. Geological Survey National Geochemical Database). The total recorded production was just 850 lbs of Pb (Doelling and others, 1989). At the Ridge Copper prospect, spotty Cu mineralization covers a 50 by 1500 ft area. A high-grade sample of mineralized rock contained 10.4% Cu, 1.1% Pb, and 5.3 ppm Ag (Brown and Hannigan, 1986). The Bullet Shafts area has a couple of shafts and a small prospect pit. A select sample from a small stockpile contained 6.3% Cu, 9.7% Pb, and 5.9 ppm Ag (Brown and Hannigan, 1986). Mineralization at these small mines and prospects generally consists of limonite-stained sandstone with iron nodules, galena, anglesite, cuprite, malachite, and Cu pitch (Doelling and others, 1989).