| Deposit ID | 10020063 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | DC12272 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | New Year-Roy Claims |
| Alternate or previous names | New Year and Roy Patented Claims of the Monster Mining Company |
| Geographic coordinates: | -113.84585, 40.24243 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Elevation | 1603 |
| Relative position | 2800 FT. SW OF WILSON HILL (5764 FT.) |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Tooele(county)
Utah(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Gold Hill(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)
Wildcat Mountain(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)
Tooele(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)
Hydrologic units (watersheds)
Southern Great Salt Lake Desert(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)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Utah | Tooele |
| Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salt Lake | 007S | 018W | 02 | SE OF SW | Utah |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Copper | Primary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Chrysocolla | Ore |
| Malachite | Ore |
| Tenorite | Ore |
| Host or associated | Host | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite | ||
| |||
| Type of structure | Regional |
|---|---|
| Structure description | Basin And Range |
| Type of structure | Local |
| Structure description | Ochre Mtn. Thrust, Garrison Monster Tranverse Fault |
| General form | TABULAR |
|---|
| Development status | Occurrence |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Deposit size | Small |
| Significant | No |
| District name | Clifton (Gold Hill) District |
|---|
| Ownership category | Private |
|---|
| Type of workings | Surface/Underground |
|---|---|
| Length | 350.52M |
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | DC12272 |
MESSENGER, H.M. III, 1980, ON-SITE INVESTIGATION, UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY
U.S. BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, 1980, MINERAL SURVEY NO. 5329: UTAH STATE OFFICE, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH
PERRY, L.I. AND B.M. MCCARTHY, 1976, LEAD AND ZINC IN UTAH: OPEN-FILE REPT. NO. 22: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY, P. 409.
1935 GEOLMAP NOLAN, T.B., PROF. PAPER 177, PL. 2
1935 RECON NOLAN, T.B., PROF. PAPER 177, P. 166
MESSENGER, H.M. III, 1980, ON-SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | N-S TO N40E, SE AND NW STEEPLY DIPPING FISSURES FILLED WITH MALACHITE, TENORITE, AND LIMONITE. A 1125 FT. LONG ADIT NORTH OF THE COPPER MINERALIZATION FAILED TO INTERSECT THE FISSURES. |
| Deposit | THE NEW YEAR CLAIM, AS PART OF THE MONSTER MINING COMPANY PROPERTY, HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY DESCRIBED AS PART OF THE GARRISON MONSTER MINE. THE ROY CLAIM ADJOINS THE NEW YEAR CLAIM ON THE EAST. ; INFO.SRC : 3 FIELD OBSERV; 1 PUB LIT |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 01-JAN-1975 | Unknown | U.S. Geological Survey | |
| Updater | 01-AUG-1981 | Messenger, Harold M. III | U.S. Geological Survey |
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