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Laura

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodity 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10041766
MRDS ID M057531
Record type Site
Current site name Laura

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.82251, 40.06382 (WGS84)
Elevation 1841
Relative position BARNEY REEVEY 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)

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 12 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • 8 UNPATENTED CLAIMS: DESERT QUEEN NOS. 1 - 8 . RESTRICTED AREA.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Malachite Ore

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.82251, 40.06382
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE DEPOSIT IS A ZONED SIMPLE PEGMATITE WITH LOCAL SEGREGATIONS OF MUSCOVITE MICA, MINOR BERYL AND RARE SAMARSKITE.
  • GEOL.DESC: QTZ MONZONITE SERICITIZED, LIMONITE STAINED

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Clifton (Gold Hill) District

Comments on the production information

  • NO KNOWN PRODUCTION

Comments on the workings information

  • PROSPECT PITS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    THOMSON, K. C., 1973 , MINERAL DEPOSITS IN THE DEEP CREEK MTNS, TOOELE & JUAB CO., UTAH: UTAH GEOL & MINER SURV BULL 99 , P. 27

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SOME MICA BOOKS MEASURED 6 IN. ACROSS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 4 CRIB FILES

Reporter information

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

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