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Golden Gate

Past Producer in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Gold, Arsenic
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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. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10020044
MRDS ID DC12235
Record type Site
Current site name Golden Gate
Related records 10227626

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.20969, 40.32244 (WGS84)
Elevation 2054
Relative position NE OF MERCUR MINE.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mercur(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Rush Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rush-Tooele Valleys(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 Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 006S 003W 05 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • INCLUDES MABEL SHAFT AND GRASSHOPPER SHAFT. PART OF THE CONSOLIDATED MERCUR CO.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Arsenic Critical Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • THREE VARIETIES OF ORE: ( 1 ) OXIDIZED ORE CONTAINING CINNABAR AND ARSENIC OXIDIZED COMPOUNDS. ( 2 ) TALCY ORE CONSISTING ENTIRELY OF CLAY, TALC, AND SOFT DECOMPOSED PORPHYRY. ( 3 ) BASE ORES CONTAINING REALGAR, ORPIMENT, MISPICKEL, STIBRITE.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Realgar Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Decomposed And Broken Limestone

Analytical data

Result 50 - 75 % REALGAR, 0.42 OZ/TON AU

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Dip 15 SW
    Thickness 3.05M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Camp Floyd District (Mercur)

Comments on the production information

  • PROD. 1938

Comments on the workings information

  • MABEL SHAFT: 136 FT DEEP WITH A 127 FT DRIFT. GRASSHOPPER SHAFT: 64 FT DEEP.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SPURR,J. & EMMONS,S.F., 1895, USGS 16TH ANN. REPORT, PT. 2, P. 404-407.

  • Deposit

    USBM MIN. YEARBOOK, 1939

  • Deposit

    USGS TOPO QUAD, MERCUR, 7.5 MIN., 1968

  • Deposit

    CONSV. COMP. DATE, 02-18-1965

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1975 Mc Coy, Gail U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-OCT-1978 Wong, George (Tooker, Ed) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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