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Skull Valley Indian Reservation Prospects

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodity Iron
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  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. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10012659
MRDS ID D008444
Record type Site
Current site name Skull Valley Indian Reservation Prospects

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.67775, 40.42688 (WGS84)
Elevation 1756
Relative position APPROX. 1/2 TO 1 MI. NORTH OF THE MOUTH OF INDIAN HICKMAN CANYON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Deseret Peak West(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Rush Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Skull Valley(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

BIA(Federal land areas administered by BIA)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 004S 007W 31 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • POINT LOCATION GIVEN IS A REPRESENTATIVE POINT.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Hematite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation

Analytical data

Result PERCENTAGES-46.4, FE
Result 29.8, SIO2
Result 0.50, S
Result .09, P
Result .01, MN.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Teutonic Limestone
    Rock description Teutonic Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.67775, 40.42688
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Western Boundary Falut, Stansbury Mountains.

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Western Boundary Fault, Stansbury Mountains

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Columbia

Comments on the workings information

  • BULLOCK (1970, P. 88) DOES NOT REFER TO ANY WORKINGS, ONLY TO THE GOSSAN OUTCROPS.

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: NO ACCESS ROAD

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: BULLOCK, K.C., 1970, IRON DEPOSITS OF UTAH: BULL. 88, UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY, P. 8

  • Deposit

    BULLOCK, K.C., 1970, IRON DEPOSITS OF UTAH: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY BULLETIN 88, UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY, P. 77

  • Deposit

    RIGBY, J.K., 1958, GEOLOGY OF THE STANSBURY MOUNTAINS, TOOELE COUNTY, UTAH: GUIDEBOOK TO THE GEOLOGY OF UTAH NO. 138 UTAH GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH.

  • Production

    MESSENGER, HAROLD M. III, 1980, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SUR.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE ORE DEPOSITS ARE LOW-GRATE GOSSAN OUTCROPS. THE MINERALIZATION IS SCATTERED OVER A RELATIVELY LARGE AREA, BUT THE ORE GRADE IS POOR AND THE POTENITAL RESERVES SMALL.

Reporter information

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

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