Cyclone Mine

Past Producer in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Gold, Lead, Silver, Arsenic, Zinc, Copper
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. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10041734
MRDS ID M057021
Record type Site
Current site name Cyclone Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.82056, 40.07354 (WGS84)
Elevation 1847
Relative position 6300 FT S24W 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 009S 018W 01 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SW SW OF NE 1600 FT S35E OF USLM NO. 9.6 CLAIMS INCLUDING LEAP YEAR CLAIMS ALL LOCATED IN BARNEY REEVEY GULCH

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Lead Secondary
Silver Secondary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcanthite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Jarosite Ore
Plumbojarosite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Dike Much Altered Near Vein

Analytical data

Result AVE: .03 OZ/TON AU, 6 OZ/TON AG, .4-8.2% PB, .5-1.7% CU, .5-3.8% ZN, .5-7.3% AS, 70 17% AS IN GOUGE

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.82056, 40.07354

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range
Type of structure Local
Structure description Dike Varies In Attitude, Ore Appears To Correlate With Certain Attitudes

Ore body information

  • General form 5 ORE SHOOTS
    Strike N15E
    Dip 50W
    Thickness 0.91M
    Length 30.48M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Along Hanging Wall Of Dike

Comments on the geologic information

  • GOUGE APPEARS ON EITHER OR BOTH SIDES OF QUARTZ

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Clifton District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Hilda And Danene Probert

Comments on the production information

  • SHIPMENTS OF ORE REPORTED IN 1926. CONTAINING PB AND AG.

Comments on the workings information

  • 600 FEET OF TOTAL WORKINGS. AN 80 FOOT INCLINED SHAFT IN WHICH DRIFTS EXTEND MORE THAN 400 FEET. PROSPECTS ASSOCIATED WITH CYCLONE MINE ARE SMALL.

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: FINE-GRAINED, INTERMIXED SULFIDES

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: NOLAN, 1935, THE GOLD HILL MINING DISTRICT: USGS PP. 177, P. 145

  • Deposit

    NOLAN, T.B., 1935, THE GOLD HILL MINING DISTRICT, UTAH, USGS PP 177, P. 144-145

  • Deposit

    USBM, 1976, MINERALS AVAILABILITY SYSTEMS REPORT.

  • Deposit

    THOMSON, K.C., 1973, MINERAL DEPOSITS OF DEEP CREEK MOUNTAINS, TOOELE AND JUAB COS., UTAH: UT. GEOL. SURV. BULL. 99, PP. 25-7.

  • Deposit

    1935 GEOLMAP NOLAN, PROF. PAPER. 177

  • Deposit

    1973 MINEMAP UNIV. OF UTAH, PHD DISS., UTAH GEOL. SURV. BULL. 99

  • Production

    THOMSON, K.C., 1973, MINERAL DEPOSITS OF DEEP CREEK MTN., TOOELE AND JUAB CO., UTAH: UGMS BULL. 99

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VEIN IS DISCONTINOUS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1981 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAR-1991 Messenger, Harold M. III U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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