Ararat

Producer in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Silver, Lead, Copper, 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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10041759
MRDS ID M057521
Record type Site
Current site name Ararat

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.83278, 40.16521 (WGS84)
Relative position GOLD HILL, UTAH

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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
008S;008S 018W;017W Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Secondary
Lead Secondary
Copper Secondary
Gold Secondary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.83278, 40.16521

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Clifton (Gold Hill) District

Comments on the production information

  • 1920 , 156 TONS WITH 3.90 OZ AU, 1734 OZ AG, 1093 LB. CU, 11.6 SHORT TONS PB.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NOLAN, T. B.; 1935 , THE GOLD HILL MINING DISTRICT, UTAH: USGS PP. 177

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit FROM T. B. NOLAN'S FIELD NOTES. RESEARCHED BY REPORTER GAIL MCCOY

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1978 Wong, George (Tooker, Ed) Bureau of Land Management
Updater 01-MAR-1982 Wong, George U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references