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Surprise Shaft

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodity Gold
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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. Alteration
  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 10041784
MRDS ID M057560
Record type Site
Current site name Surprise Shaft

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.2033, 40.31133 (WGS84)
Elevation 2079
Relative position EAST OF MERCUR

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mercur(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Rush Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rush-Tooele Valleys(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
Salt Lake 006S 003W 08 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Alteration

  • (Local) Decomposed Limestone Containing Nodules Of Chert. Porphyry Is Decomposed And Flaky.

Analytical data

Result TRACE OF GOLD

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale > Black Shale
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.2033, 40.31133
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Camp Floyd District (Mercur)

Comments on the workings information

  • DEEPEST SHAFT IN AREA. TWO LEVELS ( 125 AND 342 FT FROM TOP )

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SPURR, J. E. & EMMONS, S. F., 1895 , ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF MERCUR MINING DISTRICT: USGS 16TH ANN. REPT., PT. 2 , P. 343 - 455

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MINE CONTAINS WATER

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-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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