Taylor South

Occurrence in Box Elder county in Utah, United States with commodities Tungsten, Molybdenum, 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  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 10015816
MRDS ID DB02065
Record type Site
Current site name Taylor South
Related records 10154563

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.75613, 41.11242 (WGS84)
Elevation 1384
Relative position NORTH END OF CRATER ISLAND 6 3/4 MILES NORTH OF DONNER-REED PASS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Box Elder(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Crater Island(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Newfoundland Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Brigham City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Northern Great Salt Lake Desert(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Box Elder

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 005N 017W 35 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • N 1/2 NE 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Tertiary
Molybdenum Tertiary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Malachite Ore
Molybdenite Ore
Powellite Ore
Scheelite Ore
Epidote Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result 3 FOOT CHANNEL = 0.13 % WO3

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Sheepwagon Stock
    Rock description Sheepwagon Stock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Eureka Quartzite
    Rock description Eureka Quartzite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.75613, 41.11242

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR TO IRREGULAR
    Strike E-W
    Dip VERTICAL
    Thickness 18.29M
    Length 426.72M
    Width 18.29M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Contact Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Crater Island/Silver Island

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Taylor
    Home office Box 52 , Wendover Ut.

Comments on the workings information

  • SEVERAL CUTS, DIGGINGS AND SHALLOW SCRAPINGS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: DOELLING, IN PREPARATION

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, H. H., IN PREPARATION, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF BOX ELDER COUNTY, UTAH: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY BULLETIN.

  • Deposit

    SCHAEFFER, F. E., AND ANDERSON, W. L., 1960 , GEOLOGY OF THE SILVER ISLAND MOUNTAIN, BOX ELDER AND TOOELE COUNTY, UTAH, AND ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA: UTAH GEOL. SOC. BULL. 15 .

  • Reserve-Resource

    DOELLING, H. H., 1979 , UTAH GEOL. AND MINERALOG. SURVEY ON-SITE INVESTIGATION.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit PARTLY COVERED BY ALLUVIUM

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1979 Doelling, Hellmut H. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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