Utah Mining Tour

2024 Mining History Association

All-Day Field Trip: Tintic Mining District

Leaders, Ian and Doug Wright and our hosts at the

Osisko Development – Tintic Project

Eureka, Utah

June 9, 2024

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Behind the Tintic Mining Museum is the Tintic Historical Society boneyard.

The boneyard is full of historic artifacts on Tintic’s mining days.

Two mine cages, left one for ore cars and right one for miners.

TLooks like a kibble or ore bucket possibly modified for hoisting water.

(Above) Next door to the Tintic Mining Museum, the historic Tintic City Hall and Fire House are also open for visitors.

(Right) Behind City Hall is the Jail. Many a rowdy miner probably was a resident.

It is back on the bus to see more of the Tintic Mining District.

The fresh grey rock on the mine dumps tells us that this is one of the EPA Superfund clean-up areas. The historic headframe is all that was preserved from the famous Bullion Beck Mine, one of the Big Four. Learn more on page 12 in the tour handout.

Across the highway and up the hill from the Bullion Beck headframe, the remains of the Eureka Hill Mine can be seen. Like all the Big Four mines, it also mined along the same vein system. Learn more on pages 13-14 in the tour handout.

At the mining camp of Mammoth, south of Eureka, the bus couldn’t make it all the way up the hill to the Mammoth Mine, but we did pass by the site of the Mammoth Mill. Learn more on pages 5 and 9 in the tour handout.

(Above) The MHAers head into B’s Hangout, the most popular and only lunch spot in Eureka.

(Right) B’s huge portions of grub got the group ready for the fast-paced afternoon of touring.