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Unidentified Prospect

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodity Arsenic
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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. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10041899
MRDS ID M057929
Record type Site
Current site name Unidentified Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.88446, 40.22521 (WGS84)
Elevation 1817
Relative position APPROX. 6000 FT. EAST OF PINYON FLAT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ochre Mountain(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 007S 018W 28 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • E2, W2

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Arsenic Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Jarosite Unknown

Alteration

  • (Local) Silication, Bleaching

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.88446, 40.22521
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike VARIES
    Dip VARIES

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Qtz. Monzonite-Ls. Contact, Fissures, Bedding

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

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • PRINCIPAL WORKING IS AN INCLINED (35 DEGREES) SHAFT, TRENDING S60W, AT LEAST 100 FT. LONG. THE OTHER WORKINGS CONSIST OF TWO SHALLOW SHAFTS, 10 AND 30 FT. DEEP, AND A PIT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SCARADITE, COPIAPITE, AND IRON OXIDES IN SILICATED, BLEACHED LIMESTONE ALONG THE QTZ. MONZONITE-LIMESTONE CONTACT.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1981 Messenger, Harold M. III Bureau of Land Management

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Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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