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Lion Prospect

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Gold, Copper, Lead
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10041916
MRDS ID M057960
Record type Site
Current site name Lion Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.81362, 40.09465 (WGS84)
Elevation 2085
Relative position 1900 FT N2W OF MONTEZUMA PEAK

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 008S 017W 30 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SW SW OF SW UNSURVEYED

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Tertiary
Copper Tertiary
Lead Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Iron Ore
Aragonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Limonitization, Bleaching Of Limestone

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.81362, 40.09465
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range

Ore body information

  • Strike NE
    Dip NEARLY VERTICAL
    Thickness 0.91M
    Length 609.6M
    Width 4.57M
    Depth to top 0M

Comments on the geologic information

  • HOST ROCK LIMESTONE IN HIGHER ELEVATIMS, QUARTZ MONZONITE IN LOWER ELEVATIONS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Clifton District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 91.44M

Comments on the workings information

  • ADITS 120, 105, 60 FT LONG, 2-25 FT SHAFTS PITS AND TRENCHES.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NOLAN, T.B., 1935, THE GOLD HILL MINING DISTRICT, UTAH: USGS PP. 177

  • Deposit

    1935 GEOLMAP NOLAN, PROF. PAPER 17

  • Production

    DOELLING, H.H., 1981, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURVEY

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MOSTLY ALONG ONE NE-TRENDING FISSURE, ONE FAVORABLE LIMESTONE BED STRIKES NW AND DIPS 20 DEGREES TO NE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1981 Doelling, Hellmut H. Bureau of Land Management

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