Unfinished Dream No. 2 Claim

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Copper, Lead
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. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10012633
MRDS ID D008370
Record type Site
Current site name Unfinished Dream No. 2 Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.85724, 40.20243 (WGS84)
Elevation 1908
Relative position 2700 FT S82E OF WOODMAN PEAK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gold Hill(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wildcat Mountain(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Southern 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 007S 018W N2 OF SE Utah

Comments on the location information

  • IN THE HEAD OF POOL CANYON, ON THE NORTH SIDE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary
Lead Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chrysocolla Ore
Galena Ore
Malachite Ore
Hematite Gangue
Limonite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Argillization (Quartz Monz.), Silicification

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Gold Hill Stack;Quartz Porphry Dikes
    Rock description Gold Hill Stack;Quartz Porphry Dikes
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Quartz Monzonite-Limestone Contact

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Clifton (Gold Hill) District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 88.39M

Comments on the workings information

  • TWO SETS OF RESPECTIVE WEST AND EAST WORKINGS: AN INCLINED SHAFT, 3 PITS, AND A 15 FT ADIT WITH PRECEDING 12 FT OPEN CUT, ALL WITHIN 100 FT OF EACH OTHER, COMPRISE THE WESTERN WORKINGS. APPROX. 200 FT CAST TO SOUTHEAST OF THIS GROUP, AT THE STREAM FLOOR, A 275 FT . ADIT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE COPPER-LEAD MINERALIZATION OCCURS BOTH ALONG THE QUARTZ MONZONITE-LIMESTONE CONTACT AND IN FRACTURES UP TO TENS OF FEET AWAY FROM THE CONTACT (AS IN GALENA MINERALIZATION IN THE ADIT).

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1980 Messenger, Harold M. III Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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