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Proberts

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Iron, Copper, Tungsten, Barium-Barite
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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. 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 10041769
MRDS ID M057534
Record type Site
Current site name Proberts

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.81473, 40.06993 (WGS84)
Elevation 1829
Relative position BETWEEN BARNEY REEVEY GULCH & MIDAS

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;009S 018W;017W 01;06 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary
Copper Tertiary
Tungsten Critical Tertiary
Barium-Barite Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Conichalcite Ore
Hematite Ore
Limonite Ore
Malachite Ore
Scheelite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Qtz Monz Sericitized And Limonite Stained. Ochre Mt Ls Is Silicified And Limonite Stained. In Barney Reevey Gulch, The Ls Is Altered To Wollastonite, Grossularite, Diopside And Calcite, Scheelite Is Present

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Eocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.81473, 40.06993
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Significant No

Mining district

District name Clifton (Gold Hill) District

Comments on the workings information

  • ONE SHORT ADIT, 10 FT AND TWO OTHER SHORTER PROSPECT SHAFTS, A 60 X 80 FEET OPEN PIT, SEVERAL PROSPECT PITS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    THOMSON, K. C., 1973 , MINERAL DEP OF DEEP CK MTS, TOOELE & JUAB CO., UTAH: UTAH GEOL & MINER SURV BULL 99 , P. 28

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ALONG THE CONTACT OF SED & IGN

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1978 Wong, George (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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