Utah Claim Prospect

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Gold, Copper
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. 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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10041928
MRDS ID M057977
Record type Site
Current site name Utah Claim Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.80862, 40.06826 (WGS84)
Elevation 1835
Relative position 7800 FEET SOUTH 10 EAST 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

Federal(land status)

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

Comments on the location information

  • NW SE OF SW

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Tertiary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Bleaching

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.80862, 40.06826

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike NORTH
    Dip EAST
    Thickness 1.83M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Favorable Limestone Bed - Fissures In Monzonite

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 Federal

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFT 20 FT DEEP, INCLINED SHAFT W/35 FT OF WORKINGS, CAVED ADIT AND SEVERAL PITS AND CUTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    THOMSON, K.C., 1973, MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE DEEP CREEK MOUNTAINS, TOOLE AND JUAB COS., UTAH: UT GEOL. SURV. BULL. 99, P. 29.

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    1935 GEOLMAP NOLAN, PROF. PAPER 177

  • Deposit

    1973 RECON UNIV. OF UTAH PHD. DISS., UTAH GEOL. SURV. BULL. 99

  • Production

    THOMSON, K.C., 1973, MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE DEEP CREEK MOUNTS: UGMS BULL. 99

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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