Glenda Mine

Past Producer in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Gold, Arsenic, 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 10012644
MRDS ID D008404
Record type Site
Current site name Glenda Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.85974, 40.1566 (WGS84)
Elevation 1692
Relative position 3650 FT S28E OF GOLD HILL TOWN INTERSECTION

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 008S 018W 01 SE OF NE SW Utah

Comments on the location information

  • 1700-1800 FT. EAST OF U.S. MINE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Arsenic Critical Secondary
Copper Secondary
Lead Secondary

Comments on the commodity information

  • SILVER MAY ALSO BE PRESENT.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Jarosite Ore
Malachite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Calcite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Sericitization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Gold Hill Stock
    Rock description Gold Hill Stock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.85974, 40.1566

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N20W
    Dip 30SW
    Thickness 1.22M
    Length 70.1M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fissures

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
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 182.88M

Comments on the workings information

  • PRINCIPAL WORKING IS 300 FT ADIT WITH 155 FOOT DECLINE. SEVERAL SHORT ADITS, DECLINES, VERTICAL SHAFTS AND PITS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SEVERAL FISSURE VEINS, MOST STRIKE N20-40W AND DIP 30-40 DEGREES SW
Deposit PRINCIPAL WORKING IS NOT SHOWN ON NOLAN'S GEOLOGIC MAP ; INFO.SRC : 3 FIELD OBSERV; 2 UNPUB REPT; 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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