Silver and Gold Mining Prospect

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Arsenic, Lead, Zinc
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. 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. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10088439
MRDS ID DC12270
Record type Site
Current site name Silver and Gold Mining Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.79917, 40.17465 (WGS84)
Elevation 1524
Relative position 5900 FT N20E OF GOLD HILL SUMMIT

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

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 017W 31 NW OF SE OF NE Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Arsenic Critical Secondary
Lead Secondary
Zinc Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Iron Ore
Lead Ore
Pyrite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Bleaching Of Limestone

Analytical data

Result IN 1927 ASSAYS AVERAGED $10 IN GOLD AND 302/TON OF SILVER

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 Permian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Oquirrb Formation
    Rock description Oquirrb Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.79917, 40.17465

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range
Type of structure Local
Structure description Faults Of Small Displacement

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N84W
    Dip VERTICAL
    Thickness 1.22M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault Fissures

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 BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • SEVERAL SMALL PITS, SHAFTS AND SHORT ADITS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit OTHER FISSURES TREND N70W (VERTICAL) AND IN ANOTHER DIPS 55-65 DEGREES W (TREND UNKNOWN)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1981 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAY-1985 Messenger, Harold M. III U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.