| Deposit ID | 10087627 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | D008398 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Murphy-Lucky Strike Prospects |
| Geographic coordinates: | -113.81306, 40.17076 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Elevation | 1591 |
| Relative position | APPROX. 5200 FT N72E OF THE CENTER OF GOLD HILL VILLAGE. |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Tooele(county)
Utah(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Gold Hill(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)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Utah | Tooele |
| Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salt Lake | 007S | 017W | 31 | Utah |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Gold | Primary |
| Silver | Primary |
| Copper | Primary |
| Arsenic Critical | Primary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Conichalcite | Ore |
| Tenorite | Ore |
| Andradite | Gangue |
| Calcite | Gangue |
| Grossularite | Gangue |
| Limonite | Gangue |
| Opal | Gangue |
| Quartz | Gangue |
| Wollastonite | Gangue |
| Host or associated | Associated | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite | ||||||||
| Rock unit name | Gold Hill Stock | ||||||||
| Rock description | Gold Hill Stock | ||||||||
| |||||||||
| Host or associated | Host |
|---|---|
| Rock type | Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone |
| Rock unit name | Ochre Mountain Limestone |
| Rock description | Ochre Mountain Limestone |
| (1) | -113.81306, 40.17076 |
|---|
| Type of structure | Regional |
|---|---|
| Structure description | Basin And Range |
| General form | IRREGULAR, TABULAR |
|---|---|
| Strike | NW |
| Dip | NE |
| Development status | Occurrence |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Deposit size | Small |
| Significant | No |
| District name | Clifton (Gold Hill) District |
|---|
| Ownership category | BLM Administrative Area |
|---|
| Type | Owner |
|---|---|
| Owner | Joseph Murphy, Buzz Jones |
| Type of workings | Surface/Underground |
|---|---|
| Length | 50.6M |
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | D008398 |
MESSENGER, H. M. III, 1981, ON-SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY
NOLAN, T. B., 1935, THE GOLD HILL MINING DISTRICT, UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF PAPER 177
1935 GEOLMAP NOLAN, T. B., 1935, PROF. PAPER 177, P1.2
1981 RECON UGMS, OPEN FILE REPT.
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | DURING THE BRIEF FIELD INVESTIGATION (MESSENGER, 1981,) THE ONLY QTZ. MONZONITE-LS. CONTACT IDENTIFIED WAS A CONTACT WITH A SILL IN A 118 FT. ADIT DRIVEN ALONG THE CONTACT. IN ALL THE OTHER WORKINGS THE QTZ. MONZONITE-LS. CONTACT IS BELIEVED TO BE AT A SHALLOW DEPTH. ; INFO.SRC : 3 FIELD OBSERV; 1 PUB LIT |
| Deposit | N17-77W, 36-67NE BEDDING REPLACEMENT ORESHOOTS: MOST ARE PROBABLY 10-20 FT. WIDE OR LESS. EST. WIDTHS ARE DETERMINED BY THE WIDTH OF THE SKARN ZONES; TRUE WIDTHS MUST BE DETERMINED BY ASSAY. |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 01-OCT-1981 | Messenger, Harold M. III | Bureau of Land Management |
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