Craner Foothills Prospects

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10012216
MRDS ID D007699
Record type Site
Current site name Craner Foothills Prospects

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.79443, 40.90187 (WGS84)
Elevation 1466
Relative position E. SIDE LAKESIDE MTNS. SW OF CRANER FLAT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Craner Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Northern Great Salt Lake Desert(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management UT)

Bureau of Land Management UT BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 002N 008W 18 NE OF SW SW Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary
Iron Secondary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Silt
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Marjum Formation
    Rock description Marjum Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.79443, 40.90187

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Lakeside Mining District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • PROSPECTS A AND C ARE PROSPECT CUTS IN GRAVEL, PROSPECT B IS AN ABANDONED DRILLING SITE AND ADIT D IS AN 80 FT. ADIT TRENDING N 50 W THROUGH IRON STAINED BRECCIA

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, H.H., 1964. GEOL. OF THE N. END OF THE LAKESIDE MTNS. AND GRASSY MTNS. AND VICINITY: UNIV. OF UTAH PH.D. THESIS.

  • Deposit

    TRIPP, B.T., 1980. ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURV.

  • Deposit

    1964 GEOLMAP UNIV. OF UTAH PH.D THESI

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1980 Doelling, Hellmut H. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.