Alice No. 2 Deposit Prospect

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodity Copper
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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10012637
MRDS ID D008381
Record type Site
Current site name Alice No. 2 Deposit Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.85307, 40.16465 (WGS84)
Elevation 1649
Relative position APPROX. 100 TO 150 FT SE OF CNAE SPRING

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;008S 018W;018W 35,02 N2 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Malachite Ore
Jarosite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Bleaching, Recrystallization Of Ls.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Quartz Monzonite
    Rock description Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Oquirth Formation;Manning Canyon Formation;Ochre Mountain Limestone
    Rock description Oquirth Formation;Manning Canyon Formation;Ochre Mountain Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.85307, 40.16465

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range
Type of structure Local
Structure description Northwest-Striking Fault

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR, IRREGULAR

Comments on the geologic information

  • NOLAN (1935, P1.2) MAPPED TWO QTZ. MONZONITE PLUGS AS INTRUSIONS ALONG AN INFERRED, NORTHEAST-STRIKING FAULT IN THE STREAMBED FED BY CANE SPRING.

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 Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 103.63M

Comments on the workings information

  • FIVE SCATTERED ADITS OF VARYING LENGTHS(35,40,40,125,100 FT), A 25 FT DEEP VERTICAL SHAFT, AND A VERY SMALL PIT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ALTHOUGH SOME OF THE WORKINGS, PARTICULARLY A PARTIALLY WATER-FILLED ADIT, WERE NOT ACCESSIBLE, MINERALIZATION WAS WEAK IN MOST OF THE WORKINGS ENTERED.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1981 Messenger, Harold M. III Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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