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Three Picks Claims

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. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10012674
MRDS ID D008480
Record type Site
Current site name Three Picks Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.67999, 40.513 (WGS84)
Elevation 1951
Relative position APPROX. 4.5 MI. SOUTH OF DELLE RANCH, BETWEEN BIG POLE AND SPRING CANYONS.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Salt Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tooele(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

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 004S 007W 06 NW Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Hematite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Ophir Group;Pioche Shale
    Rock description Ophir Group;Pioche Shale

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.67999, 40.513
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Deseret Anticline

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Western Boundary Fault Of The Stansbury Mountains

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Free Coinage

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Bronson, Wesley R.

Comments on the workings information

  • FOUR PROSPECT PITS ON IRON OXIDE-FILLED FAULT ZONES PARALLEL TO THE TREND OF THE WESTERN BOUNDARY FAULT OF THE STANSBURY MOUNTAINS.

Comments on development

  • THE U.S. BUREAU OF MINES FIELD WORK (1980) WAS PART OF A MINERAL RESOURCES EVALUTATION OF A RARE II AREA (04-757) IN THE STANSBURY MTNS. SECTION (GRANTSVILLE DIV.) OF THE WASATCH NATIONAL FOREST.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ALMQUIST, CARL, AND KNESS, RICHARD, 1980, ON-SITE INVESTIGATION; U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, DENVER.

  • Deposit

    RIGBY, J.K., 1958, GEOLOGY OF THE STANSBURY MOUNTAINS, TOOELE COUNTY, UTAH: UTAH GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 175P.

  • Deposit

    1980 RECON U.S. BUREAU OF MINE

  • Production

    MESSENGER, H.M. III, 1980, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURVEY

Reporter information

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

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