Frankie Mine

Past Producer in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Copper, Silver, Gold, Lead, Tungsten
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. Ownership information
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021194
MRDS ID DC15180
Record type Site
Current site name Frankie Mine
Related records 10179283

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.82751, 40.14049 (WGS84)
Elevation 1820
Relative position 3600 FT N45W OF LUCK DAY KNOB

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 018W 12 NW OF SE OF SW Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Secondary
Gold Secondary
Lead Secondary
Tungsten Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Bornite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Chrysocolla Ore
Malachite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Scheelite Ore
Tenorite Ore
Apatite Gangue
Calcite Gangue
Diopside Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Humite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Tourmaline Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation

Analytical data

Result .08-.24 OZ AU, .24-4.72 OZ AG, 4.9-23.5% CU, .7-9.7% PB, SEE ATTACHED SHEET FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.

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 Permian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Oquirrh Formation
    Rock description Oquirrh Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.82751, 40.14049

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range
Type of structure Local
Structure description Mineral Sheets Or Fissures

Ore body information

  • General form FORMS SHEETS PARALLEL TO CONTACT
    Strike N03W
    Dip 65E
    Length 76.2M
    Width 6.1M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Parallel To And At Contact Of Quartz Monzonite Dike And Oquirrh Formation

Comments on the geologic information

  • MONZONITE, LS WIDELY ALTERED TO METAMORPHIC MINERALS NEAR THE CONTACT

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Clifton (Gold Hill) District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Woodman Mining Co.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 201.17M
    Overall length 201.17M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: NOLAN, 1935 P. 123. EL SHATOORY AND WHELAN, 1970 P. 32-34

  • Deposit

    NOLAN, T.B., 1935, THE GOLD HILL MINING DISTRICT UTAH, USGS PP 177, P. 123.

  • Deposit

    EL-SHATOURY, H.M., & WHELAN, J.A., 1970, MINERALIZATION IN THE GOLD HILL MINING DISTRICT TOOELE CO. UTAH, UGMS BULLETIN 83

  • Deposit

    USBM, 1976, MINERALS AVAILABILITY SYSTEMS REPORT.

  • Deposit

    1935 GEOLMAP NOLAN, PROF. PAPER 177, PL. 2

  • Deposit

    1935 RECON NOLAN, T.B., PROF. PAPER 177, P. 123

  • Deposit

    1970 MINEMAP UNIV OF UTAH-UTAH GEOL SURV BULL 83

  • Production

    NOLAN, T.B., 1935, THE GOLD HILL MINING DISTRICT, UTAH, USGS PP 177, P. 123

  • Reserve-Resource

    MESSENGER, H.M., 1981, ON SITE INSPECTION: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1978 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1981 Messenger, Harold M. III U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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