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Brickyard

Past Producer in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Mercury, 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10020056
MRDS ID DC12258
Record type Site
Current site name Brickyard
Alternate or previous names Consolidated Mercur Co.
Related records 10179128

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.21358, 40.32744 (WGS84)
Elevation 2134
Relative position ADJOINS THE GEYSER CLAIM

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 004W 05,06 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Mercury Primary
Arsenic Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Gold Ore
Pyrite Ore
Realgar Ore

Host and associated rocks

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

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N 23 W
    Dip 20 - 40 NE
    Thickness 12.19M

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. 1943

Comments on the workings information

  • SEVERAL WINZES AND AN INCLINE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USBM YEARBOOK 1943, P. 481

  • Deposit

    ALLEN, R. H., 1910 , MINES AND MILLS OF THE CONSOLIDATED MERCUR MINES CO: ENGR. AND MINING JOURNAL, VOL 89 , JUNE 18 , 1910 , P. 1273

  • Deposit

    CONSV. COMP. DATE, 11-21-1958

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE VEIN FOLLOWS THE UNDER SIDE OF A SHEET OF PORPHYRY.

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

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