Blue Lead Claim

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodity 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10012636
MRDS ID D008377
Record type Site
Current site name Blue Lead Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.83668, 40.19771 (WGS84)
Elevation 1713
Relative position 8500 FT S 75 DEG E 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 23 SE OF SE Utah

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATED 600 FT N 40 W OF BM 5666

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Limonite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.83668, 40.19771

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

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

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner W. C. Dennison

Comments on the workings information

  • 23 FT ADIT WITH A PRECEDING 33 FT OPEN CUT AND ASSOC. SMALL PITS; 4 SMALL PITS NORTHWEST OF THE ADIT ON A N12W, 55 NW, 2 FT WIDE BRECCIATED, MARBLEIZED ZONE, AND 2 SMALL PITS 100 AND 140 FT SOUTHWEST OF THE OPEN CUT. THE SECOND PIT IS 10 FT LONG A ND 5 FT DEEP.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit GALENA OCCURS AS VERY MINUTE, SPARSE GRAINS ALONG FRACTURES IN THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF THE FACE IN THE ADIT. THE SECOND PIT SOUTHWEST OF THE OPEN CUT IS ON A 10 IN. WIDE, N15E, 65NW IRON OXIDE-CEMENTED BRECCIA ZONE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-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.