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Footes No. 1-2 Prospect

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Silver, 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. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10055151
MRDS ID RE00171
Record type Site
Current site name Footes No. 1-2 Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.74359, 39.94105 (WGS84)
Elevation 2030
Relative position 7000 FT S 50 W OF LION PEAK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Indian Springs(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lynndyl(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Delta(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 10S 8W 21 SE OF SE OF NE Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Ore
Hematite Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Phyllite
    Rock unit name Sheeprock Series (Cohenour, 1959);
    Rock description Sheeprock Series (Cohenour, 1959);

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.74359, 39.94105
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
  • General form TABULAR

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Erickson District District

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Vernon Slaughter

Comments on the workings information

  • 4 ADITS, ALL CAVED CROSS-CUTTING THE QUARTZITE-PHYLLITE CONTACT. THE EASTERN MOST PROSPECT MARKED ON THE INDIAN SPRINGS QUAD. HAS A SMALL CAVED ADIT APPROX. 15 FT. ABOVE IT TO THE EAST.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MESSENGER, H.M., 3 1982, ON-SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY

  • Deposit

    THOMAS, G.H., 1958, THE GEOLOGY OF INDIAN SPRINGS QUADRANGLE, TOOELE AND JUAB COUNTIES, UTAH: UNPUB. BYU M.S. THESIS, PROVO, UTAH.

  • Deposit

    COHENOUR, R.E., 1959, SHEEPROCK MOUNTAINS, TOOELE AND JUAB COUNTIES, UTAH: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY BULL. 63.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit QUARTZ-PYRITE VEINS FILLING FRACTURES PARALLEL TO THE QUARTZITE-PHYLLITE CONTACT.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1982 Messenger, Harold M. III Utah Geological and Mineral Survey

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