Walla Walla Prospect

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Arsenic
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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10020068
MRDS ID DC12283
Record type Site
Current site name Walla Walla Prospect
Alternate or previous names Barbet Claims
Related records 10252102

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.85502, 40.16799 (WGS84)
Elevation 1719
Relative position 6800 FT N85 DEG W OF THE GOLD HILL INTERSECTION

Site location context

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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 007S;008S 018W;018W 34,03 SE OF SE Utah

Comments on the location information

  • IDENTIFIED BY "MINES" ON THE 7.5 MIN. QUAD. MAP

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Secondary
Arsenic Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Plumbojarosite Ore
Limonite Gangue

Analytical data

Result 8.1 OZ/TON AG, .22 OZ/TON AU: PERCENTS-.032 CU, 3.19 PB, .249 ZN, FROM A SELECTED CHIP SAMPLE.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Oquirrh Formation
    Rock description Oquirrh Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.85502, 40.16799

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N16W
    Dip 30
    Width 0.91M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • N80e, Steeply Dipping Fissure May Have Been The Feeder Zone.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Clifton (Gold Hill) District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Nick Zakis

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 21.64M

Comments on the workings information

  • THE PRINCIPAL WORKING IS A N84E, 47 FT. LONG DECLINE (22 DEGREES). A 24 FT. LONG ADIT WITH PRECEDING 16 FT. OPENCUT, BOTH TRENDING S75W, IS ON THE EAST SLOPE OF THE RIDGE. A 55 FT. LONG OPENCUT, PITS, AND BULLDOZER CUTS CONNECT THE EAST WEST SLOPE WORKINGS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit A N16W, ZONE BEDDING REPL. ZONE, APPROX. 3 FT. WIDE, IS BEING EXPLORED BY WORK DOWN A 22 DEGREE, N84E, 47 FT. LONG DECLINE. EAST OF THE DECLINE, TRENCHES, OPENCUTS, PITS AND A 40 FT. ADIT - OPENCUT ARE ON A N80E, INCHES - WIDE FISSURE THAT MAY HAVE BEEN THE FEEDER ZONE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1980 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAR-1994 Messenger, Harold M. III U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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