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Wilson Prospect

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodity 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. 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. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10087630
MRDS ID D008405
Record type Site
Current site name Wilson Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.82251, 40.1541 (WGS84)
Elevation 1719
Relative position 4,900 FT. S28E OF GOLD HILL INTERSECTION

Site location context

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

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 008S 018W 01 W2 OF SW OF SE Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Jarosite Ore
Limonite Ore
Hematite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Argillitization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Gold Hill Stock
    Rock description Gold Hill Stock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.82251, 40.1541
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N80W
    Dip 23 SW
    Thickness 1.83M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fissures In Granodiorite

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Clifton (Gold Hill) District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 30.48M

Comments on the workings information

  • SHORT ADITS AND SHALLOW DECLINES, SOME PITS AND TRENCHES

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NOLAN, T. B., 1935, THE GOLD HILL MINING DISTRICTS UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF. PAPER 17

  • Deposit

    1935 GEOLMAP NOLAN, PROF. PAPER 177, P1.

  • Production

    MESSENGER, H. M. III, 1981, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit AT LEAST 2 FISSURES, THE OTHER STRIKES N33W AND DIPS 57 SW.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1981 Messenger, Harold M. III 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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