Shay Claims

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Lead, Molybdenum, 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. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021189
MRDS ID DC15174
Record type Site
Current site name Shay Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.7989, 40.09743 (WGS84)
Elevation 1768
Relative position ONE MI NE OF MONTEZUMA PEAK NEAR GOSHUTE SPRING

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
Molybdenum Primary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Plumbojarosite Ore
Wulfenite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Complete Oxidation

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.7989, 40.09743

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form STRINGERS

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: VEIN ALSO CONTAINS QTZ AND ALTERED WALL RK

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Clifton (Gold Hill) District

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NOLAN,T.B., 1935, THE GOLD HILL MINING DISTRICT: USGS PROF. PAPER 177, P. 149.

  • Deposit

    CONSV. COMP. DATE, 03-30-1955

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

Beyond USGS

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