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Southern Confederate Mine

Past Producer in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Arsenic
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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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021188
MRDS ID DC15173
Record type Site
Current site name Southern Confederate Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.81084, 40.09826 (WGS84)
Elevation 2055
Relative position 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)

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

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Zinc Critical Tertiary
Copper Tertiary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Anglesite Ore
Galena Ore
Malachite Ore
Plumbojarosite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Extensive Oxidation

Analytical data

Result 1918 - 19 - 26 : AVG. 30 % PB, 30 OZ/TON A

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.81084, 40.09826
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Movement Along Vein After Deposition Of Ore

Ore body information

  • General form LENSES
    Strike N 50 E
    Dip 75 - 80 SE
    Thickness 45.72M
    Length 15.24M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 45.72M

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: QTZ MONZONITE HAS BEEN SERICITIZED AND ADDITION OF FINE GRAIN QTZ AND CHLORITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Clifton (Gold Hill) District

Comments on the production information

  • PROD 1918-1919; 1926

Comments on the workings information

  • A 150 FT SHAFT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NOLAN,T.B., 1935, THE GOLD HILL MINING DISTRICT: USGS PROF. PAPER 177, P. 147.

  • Deposit

    USGS MIN. RES. 1918; 1919

  • Deposit

    USBM MIN. RES. 1926

  • Deposit

    CONSV. COMP. DATE, 02-18-1965

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit IN A SHEAR ZONE 20 FT WIDE

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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