| Deposit ID | 10021181 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | DC15164 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Boston Prospect |
| Related records | 10130408 |
| Geographic coordinates: | -113.78556, 40.15882 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Elevation | 1603 |
| Relative position | 5800 FT S88E OF GOLD HILL SUMMIT |
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 | 008S | 017W | 05 | NW OF NW OF SE | Utah |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Gold | Primary |
| Lead | Primary |
| Silver | Primary |
| Arsenic Critical | Secondary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Plumbojarosite | Ore |
| Pyrite | Ore |
| Jarosite | Gangue |
| Limonite | Gangue |
| Result | ARSENOPYRITE MINED HAD VALVES IN GOLD OF 14 DOLLARS PER TON IN 1935. |
|---|
| Host or associated | Associated | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite | ||||||
| Rock unit name | Gold Hill Stock | ||||||
| Rock description | Gold Hill Stock | ||||||
| |||||||
| Host or associated | Host |
|---|---|
| Rock type | Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite |
| (1) | -113.78556, 40.15882 |
|---|
| Type of structure | Regional |
|---|---|
| Structure description | Basin And Range |
| Type of structure | Local |
| Structure description | Vein Offset For A Few Ft. By Minor Faults And Terminated To The South By A Larger One |
| General form | TABULAR |
|---|---|
| Strike | N30W |
| Dip | 45SW |
| Length | 182.88M |
| Width | 0.91M |
| Depth to top | 0M |
| 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 | 30.48M |
| Overall length | 121.92M |
| Overall width | 15.24M |
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | DC15164 |
SRC.REF: NOLAN, T.B., 1935, USGS PROF. PAPER 177, P. 143
DOELLING, N.H., AND H.M. MESSENGER III, 1981, ON-SITE INVESTIGATION, UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY
1935 GEOLMAP NOLAN, PROF. PAPER 177, PL.
NOLAN, T.B., 1935, THE GOLD HILL MINING DIST., UTAH: USGS PROF. PAPER 177, P. 143.
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | LENGTH ON PRINCIPAL FISSURE, OTHER FISSURES STRIKE N80E (DIP 50 SE), N10E (DIP 35 NW) |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 01-NOV-1981 | Unknown | U.S. Geological Survey | |
| Updater | 01-OCT-1992 | Messenger, Harold M. III | U.S. Geological Survey |
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