Boston Prospect

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Gold, Lead, Silver, 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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  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 10021181
MRDS ID DC15164
Record type Site
Current site name Boston Prospect
Related records 10130408

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.78556, 40.15882 (WGS84)
Elevation 1603
Relative position 5800 FT S88E OF GOLD HILL SUMMIT

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 008S 017W 05 NW OF NW OF SE Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Arsenic Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Plumbojarosite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Jarosite Gangue
Limonite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Limonitization

Analytical data

Result ARSENOPYRITE MINED HAD VALVES IN GOLD OF 14 DOLLARS PER TON IN 1935.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Gold Hill Stock
    Rock description Gold Hill Stock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.78556, 40.15882

Economic information

Geologic structures

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

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N30W
    Dip 45SW
    Length 182.88M
    Width 0.91M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fissures

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 Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 30.48M
    Overall length 121.92M
    Overall width 15.24M

Comments on the workings information

  • SHORT ADITS, DECLINES, CUTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit LENGTH ON PRINCIPAL FISSURE, OTHER FISSURES STRIKE N80E (DIP 50 SE), N10E (DIP 35 NW)

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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