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East Lost Hammer

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodity Stone, Dimension
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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. Alteration
  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. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10087537
MRDS ID D007737
Record type Site
Current site name East Lost Hammer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.03305, 40.93132 (WGS84)
Elevation 1640
Relative position 1 MI E. OF LOST HAMMER PEAK (6382)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Grassy Mountains(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bonneville Salt Flats(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Northern 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 002N 011W 01 NE OF SW SE Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Stone, Dimension Tertiary

Alteration

  • (Local) Liesegang Banding.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Oquirrh Formation, Unit 2
    Rock description Oquirrh Formation, Unit 2
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pennsylvanian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pennsylvanian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.03305, 40.93132
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Vertical Beds Along Which Some Movement May Have Taken Place, Near Faults

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR/BLANKET
    Strike NORTH
    Dip VERTICAL
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Select Limestone Beds

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Large
Significant No

Mining district

District name Grassy Mtns.

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, 1964, GEOLOGY OF THE NORTERN LAKESIDE MTNS. AND GRASSY MTNS., TOOELE AND BOX ELDER COS., UTAH: UNIV. OF UTAH PH.D. THESIS.

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, H.H., 1980, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY

  • Deposit

    1964 GEOLMAP UNIV. OF UTAH PH.D. THESI

  • Production

    DOELLING, H.H., 1980, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY.

  • Reserve-Resource

    H.H. DOELLING, 1980, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1980 Doelling, Hellmut H. 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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