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Copper Jack Group

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021245
MRDS ID DC15272
Record type Site
Current site name Copper Jack Group
Related records 10055150, 10276613

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.50941, 39.91077 (WGS84)
Elevation 1878
Relative position AT THE MOUTH ON THE N. SIDE OF BURNED CANYON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Erickson Knoll(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lynndyl(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Delta(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Sevier(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier 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 010S 006W 34 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SW 1/4 OF SEC 34

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Primary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary
Uranium Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • FLUORITE CONTAINS SMALL AMOUNTS OF URANINITE.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Fluorite Ore
Pyrite Ore

Analytical data

Result AVG. 6 % CU, 1 - 7 OZ/TON A

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.50941, 39.91077
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N 25 - 45 W
    Dip 50 SW
    Width 1.22M

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: MAIN GRANITE RK IS IRON STAINED, WHITE TO LIGHT GRAY AND MED TO COARSE GRAIN.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Erickson District

Comments on the production information

  • PROD 1929 , AMOUNT UNKNOWN

Comments on the workings information

  • 140 FT SHAFT, PARTIALLY FLOODED

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USBM MIN. RES. 1929; 1930

  • Deposit

    COHENOUR,R.E., 1959, SHEEPROCK MTNS.: UTAH GEOL. & MIN. SURV., BULL. 63

  • Deposit

    BUTLER,B.S. AND OTHERS, 1920, ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH: USGS PROF. PAPER 111

  • Deposit

    BULLOCK, K. C., 1976 , FLUORITE OCCURRENCES IN UTAH: UTAH GEOL & MIN. SURV BULL 110

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit TWO FISSURES FORM A SHEETED STRUCTURE.
Deposit DEVELOPED WITH FLYING DUTCHMAN

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1976 Wong, George U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-OCT-1978 Tooker, Ed U.S. Geological Survey

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

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