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Protection Claim

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Barium-Barite, Copper
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10087642
MRDS ID D008441
Record type Site
Current site name Protection Claim
Alternate or previous names Garrison Mining Co. Claim Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.83613, 40.2516 (WGS84)
Elevation 1439
Relative position NE TIP OF WILSON HILL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Elephant Knoll SE(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 007S 018W 02 SE OF NE OF NE Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Barium-Barite Critical Tertiary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Ore
Malachite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.83613, 40.2516
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Ochre Mountain Thrust
Type of structure Local
Structure description Intersecting High Angle Faults; N59e, 61 Se (Late, And The Ore Control), And N49w, 69sw (Early)

Ore body information

  • General form LENTICULAR
    Length 60.96M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • N59e, 61 Se Fault Was Controlling Fissure; Void Spaces In Fractured Dolomite Concentrated Barite

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Clifton (Gold Hill)

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 9.14M

Comments on the workings information

  • 30 FT. ADIT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1980 Messenger, Harold M. III Bureau of Land Management

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