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Red Jacket Mine

Producer in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, Molybdenum
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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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021187
MRDS ID DC15172
Record type Site
Current site name Red Jacket Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.81001, 40.09882 (WGS84)
Elevation 2012
Relative position 1/2 MI SE OF CLIFTON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Clifton(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 30 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • N OF SOUTHERN CONFEDERATE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Molybdenum Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Anglesite Ore
Galena Ore
Plumbojarosite Ore
Wulfenite Ore
Jarosite Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Pyrite Unknown

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Eocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.81001, 40.09882
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description At A Depth Of 180 Ft, An Eastward Dipping Fault Terminates The Ore

Ore body information

  • General form LENSES
    Strike NE
    Dip STEEP-SE
    Width 1.22M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Clifton (Gold Hill) District

Comments on the production information

  • PROD 1926

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 152.4M

Comments on the workings information

  • SEVERAL TUNNELS AND CUTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NOLAN,T.B., 1935, THE GOLD HILL MINING DISTRICT: USGS PROF. PAPER 177, P. 148.

  • Deposit

    CONSV. COMP. DATE, 03-29-1955

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1975 Mc Coy, Gail U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1978 Wong, George (Tooker, Ed) U.S. Geological Survey

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