Congar Hill Property

Past Producer in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Mercury, Antimony, Iron, Zinc, Barium-Barite
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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10087440
MRDS ID D007358
Record type Site
Current site name Congar Hill Property
Alternate or previous names Congar Hill #1-5

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.91751, 39.92771 (WGS84)
Elevation 2530
Relative position NINE MILES SOUTH-SOUTHEAST OF IBAPAH IN ARTS CANYON.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Goshute(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Fish Springs(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 010S 018W 30 CENTER Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary
Antimony Critical Tertiary
Iron Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary
Barium-Barite Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Metacinnabar Ore
Barite Gangue
Calcite Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Siderite Gangue
Sphalerite Gangue
Stibnite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Ibapah Stock
    Rock description Ibapah Stock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Busby;Pioche;Prospect Mountain;Sevy
    Rock description Busby;Pioche;Prospect Mountain;Sevy

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.91751, 39.92771

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin & Range
Type of structure Local
Structure description Rocky Springs Thrust Fault Places Cambrian Units Over Devonian Thrust Strikes N60w & Dips 50-55 Sw

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N60W
    Dip 53 SW
    Thickness 0.61M
    Width 0.61M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Mineralization Located Along Breccia Zone Which Parallels Rocky Spring Thrust

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1930
Discoverer Dan Probert (Ibapah, Ut.)
Year of first production 1940

Mining district

District name Willow Springs District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Dan Probert

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION FIGURES UNKNOWN

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Area 0.101HA
    Length 38.1M
    Overall depth 15.24M
    Overall length 12.5M
    Overall width 10.67M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF AN ADIT, AN INCLINE SHAFT, A SMALL GLORY HOLE, AND 3 OPEN PITS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    THOMPSON, K.C., MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE DEEP CREEK MTNS, TOOELE AND JUAB COUNTIES, UTAH: UNIV. OF UTAH PH.D. DISSERTATION (UNPUBLISHED).

  • Deposit

    EVERTS, M.L., 1980, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UGMS.

  • Deposit

    UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY, (N.D.), REPORT OF INVESTIGATION 117: UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY.

  • Deposit

    BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, 1977, MINERAL OCCURRENCES IN EMERGENCY WITHDRAWAL AREA: BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT.

  • Deposit

    1920 RECON BUTLER, B.S., USGS PP 111

  • Deposit

    1966 GEO MAP UGMS BULL. 77 & 99

  • Deposit

    1977 RECON UGMS R.I. 117

  • Deposit

    1979 GEOC HEM DOE GJBX-8 (80)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE IS IN DOLOMITE BRECCIA CEMENTED WITH SPARSELY DISTRIBUTED BARITE & CINNABAR.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1980 Everts, Michael L. Bureau of Land Management
Updater 01-JAN-1994 Humphries, S. E. (Marcus, S.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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