Silver King

Producer in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Silver, Copper, Lead, Gold
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. 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. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021207
MRDS ID DC15198
Record type Site
Current site name Silver King
Alternate or previous names Mineral Hill

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.81334, 40.09354 (WGS84)
Relative position W & N SLOPES OF MONTEZUMA PEAK

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 018W 30 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • ENCLOSING 200 ACRES

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Copper Primary
Lead Secondary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

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

Analytical data

Result 1912 - 6 OZ/TON AG, 18 % CU
Result 1917 - 9.3 OZ/TON AG, 8.1 % CU
Result 1923 - 0.035 OZ/TON AU, 18.1 OZ/TON AG, 2.77 % CU, 5.19 % PB.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Eocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.81334, 40.09354

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Oquirrh Fm Strike N 40 W, Dip 20 Ne. A Fault At The Bottom Of The Shaft Strikes N 60 W, Dip 30 Se, Throw 5 Ft.

Ore body information

  • Strike NE
    Dip 85 NW

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 SML BEFORE 1912; PB-AG ORE IN 1922; PB-CU ORE IN 1923; 1926

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NOLAN,T.B., 1935, THE GOLD HILL MINING DISTRICT: USGS PROF. PAPER 177, P. 163.

  • Deposit

    USGS MIN. RES. 1920; 1921; 1922; 1923

  • Deposit

    USBM MIN. RES. 1926; 1928; 1946

  • Deposit

    CONSV. COMP. DATE, 02-18-1965

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.