Utah Claim

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodity Iron
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. 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 10041770
MRDS ID M057535
Record type Site
Current site name Utah Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.81084, 40.06937 (WGS84)
Elevation 1820
Relative position W OF MIDAS GROUP

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 017W 06 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Quartz Monzonite Has Been Sericitized And Limonite Stained. The Shale In The Manning Canyon Fm Has Been Silicified.

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.81084, 40.06937

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Clifton (Gold Hill) District

Comments on the workings information

  • SERIES OF PROSPECT PITS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    THOMSON, K. C., 1973 , MINERAL DEP. OF THE DEEP CK MTNS, TOOELE & JUAB CO, UTAH: UTAH GEOL & MINER SURV BULL 99 , P. 29

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ALONG A CONTACT ZONE

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.