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Enterprise

Past Producer in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Copper, Silver, Gold, Tungsten, Iron
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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. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10041764
MRDS ID M057528
Record type Site
Current site name Enterprise

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.83251, 40.11826 (WGS84)
Elevation 1920
Relative position ADJACENT TO CENTENNIAL, W OF YELLOW HAMMER

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
008S 018W 24 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Primary
Gold Tertiary
Tungsten Critical Tertiary
Iron Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Malachite Ore
Scheelite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Sericite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Metamorphism Of The Qtz Monzonite And Oquirrh Fm

Analytical data

Result 1917: 0.05 OZ/TON AU, 1.6 OZ/TON AG, 5.4 % CU

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.83251, 40.11826
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form PIPELIKE

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Two Fractures: ( 1 ) Strike N 7 E; Dip 70 E, ( 2 ) Strike N 60 W, Dip S

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: SEDIMENTARY RX HAVE BEEN REPLACED BY JASPEROIDS WEST OF THE CLAIM

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

  • 47 TONS OF ORE IN 1917 SHIPPED FROM ENTERPRISE AND CENTENNIAL

Comments on the workings information

  • SEVERAL CUTS AND SHALLOW SHAFTS

Reference information

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NEAR CONTACT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1978 Wong, George (Tooker, Ed) U.S. Geological Survey

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