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Midas

Past Producer in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper
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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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021229
MRDS ID DC15243
Record type Site
Current site name Midas

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.80778, 40.06882 (WGS84)
Elevation 1859
Relative position 1200 FT EAST OF HOPKINS GULCH

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 009S 017W 06 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • FOUR PATENTED CLAIMS: MIDAS, LUCKY MAY, JUNE BUG, GOLDEN EAGLE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary
Copper Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • OTHER MINERALS ACCOMPANY THE METALS ARE WOLLASTONITE ALTERED TO SPADAITE, DIOPSIDE, GARNET, VESUVIANITE

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Ore
Andalusite Gangue
Biotite Gangue
Quartzite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Limestone Replace By Silicate Minerals

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.80778, 40.06882
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description An E - W Transverse Fault 1,100 Ft South Of Tunnel Portal. Another Fault North Of The Portal Strikes North, Dipping 30 W Bring In Contact The Manning Canyon Fm And Oquirrh Fm.

Ore body information

  • General form IN A BED OF LIMESTONE
    Strike NW
    Dip 30 - 45 E
    Thickness 30.48M
    Length 60.96M
    Width 1.22M

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 1933, 1934, 1938 TOTAL PRODUCTION IS ABOUT $35,000

Comments on the workings information

  • AN ADIT WITH 1,100 FT OF WORK, SEVERAL STOPES, A SHAFT, SEVERAL PROSPECT PITS. WORKING ARE BADLY CAVED, INACCESSIBLE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NOLAN,T.B., 1935, THE GOLD HILL MINING DISTRICT: USGS PROF. PAPER 177, P. 134.

  • Deposit

    USBM MIN. YEARBOOK 1934; 1935; 1939

  • Deposit

    THOMSON,K.C., 1973, MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE DEEP CREEK MTNS.: UTAH GEOL. & MIN. SURV., BULL. 99, P. 28.

  • 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.

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