Dome Hill Prospect

Occurrence in Juab county in Utah, United States with commodities Silver, Lead, Copper, Bismuth, Gold
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. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10088974
MRDS ID RE00158
Record type Site
Current site name Dome Hill Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.96693, 39.82216 (WGS84)
Elevation 1597
Relative position 4,2 FEET N50W OF FLINT SPRING

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Juab(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Keg Pass(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lynndyl(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Delta(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 Juab

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 011S 010W 34 SW OF SW OF NW Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Copper Secondary
Bismuth Critical Secondary
Gold Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Sericite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification Oxidationvritification

Analytical data

Result THREE SAMPLES COLLECTED BY THE UGMS YIELDED THE FOLLOWING RESULTS: SAMPLE 23-27 WAS COLLECTED FROM THE NORTHERN PIT AND CONTAINED 13 PPB AU, 21.6 PPM SB, 98 PPM AS, 47 PPM CE, 430 PPM CR, 1.8% FE, 4 PPM MO, <5 PPM AG, <200 PPM ZN, 880 PPM CU, 640 PPM PB, <1 PPM BI: A SAMPLE OF SILICIFIED QUARTZITE WITH QUARTZ STOCKWORK AND LIMONITE STAIN CONTAINED (DOME HILL-1) 140 PPB AU, 472 PPM SB, 165 PPM AS, 56 PPM CE, 280 PPM CR, 1.7% FE, 18 PPM MO, 15 PPM AG, 8 PPM W, <200 PPM ZN, 205 PPM CU, 3200 PPM PB, AND 36 PPM BI
Result A SIMILAR SAMPLE (DOME HILL-2) CONTAINED 200 PPB AU, 39.4 PPM SB, 124 PPM AS, 310 PPM CR, 1.0 % FE, < 2 PPM MO, 8 PPM AG, 15 PPM W, <200 PPM ZN, 1100 PPM ZR, 220 PPM CU, 890 PPM PB, AND 8 PPM BI
Result BULK SAMPLES FROM PROSPECTS CONTAINED 6 AND 30 OPT AG. SAMPLES ANALYZED BY KENNECOTT'S SMELTER LAB CONTAINED 22 TO 84 OPT AG, 0.048 TO 0.013 OPT AU, 0.1 TO 0.9 % CU, 0.9 TO 10.3 % PB, 58.8 TO 87.7 % SIO2, 0.039 TO 0.725 % AS, 0.005 TO 0.67 % SB, 1.24 TO 3.7 % BI. IN GENERAL A HIGH CORRELATION EXISTS BETWEEN PB, AG, AND BI.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Granodiorite Porphyry;Andesite & Latite Flow (Host);
    Rock description Granodiorite Porphyry;Andesite & Latite Flow (Host);
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Prospect Mountain Quartzite;Lower Member Of The Pioche Formation;
    Rock description Prospect Mountain Quartzite;Lower Member Of The Pioche Formation;
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Argillite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.96693, 39.82216

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Deep Creek-Tintic District Mineral Belt
Type of structure Local
Structure description Faults With Small Offset Striking Nw, Wnw, And Ne

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fracture And Fault Zones

Comments on the geologic information

  • GRANODIORITE IS EXPOSED ABOUT 1 MILE SE OF DOME HILL AND IS THE NEAREST KNOWN INTRUSIVE ROCK.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1978
Discoverer Robert And Terry Steele, Nephi Utah

Mining district

District name Keg Mountain Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Western Mining Co.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Steele, Robert And Terry

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF THREE PITS NEAR THE CREST OF DOME HILL AND ONE PIT TO THE NORTHWEST. NUMEROUS HOLES HAVE BEEN DRILLED AT DOME HILL AND THE AREA TO THE NORTH.

Comments on development

  • PROPERTY EXPLORED BY GETTY, PHELPS DODGE, WESTERN STRATEGIC MINERALS, AND OTHERS. MOST RECENT EXPLORATION BY FREEPORT IN 1987. WESTERN MINING BEGAN EXPLORATION PROGRAM IN 1989 (SPRING).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SHUBAT, M.A., 1987, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL OCCURRENCES OF NORTHERN KEG MOUNTAIN, JUAB COUNTY, UTAH, IN KOPP, R.S., AND COHENOUR, R.E., EDS., CENOZOIC GEOLOGY OF WESTERN UTAH: UTAH GEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION PUBLICATION 16, P. 451-462.

  • Deposit

    MORRIS, H.T., 1978, UNPROSPECTED ZONE OF PYRITIC ALTERATION IN WEST-CENTRAL UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN-FILE REPORT 78-791.

  • Deposit

    MORRIS, H.T., 1987, PRELIMINARY GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE DELTA 2 DEGREE QUADRANGLE, TOOELE, JUAB, MILLARD, AND UTAH COUNTIES, UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN-FILE REPORT 87-185.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE IS PRESENT AS VEIN, STOCKWORK, AND REPLACEMENT OCCURRENCES. HOST QUARTZITE IS SILICIFIED AND CONTAINS LOCAL PATCHES OF FINE-GRAINED, DISSEMINATED SULFIDE REPLACEMENT. HOST IS ALSO CUT BY NUMEROUS VEINS AND STOCKWORK VEINLETS OF OF QUARTZ. MOST VEIN QUARTZ IS FINE GRAINED, BUT LOCAL COARSE COCKSCOMB QUARTZ IS PRESENT. MOST ORE APPEARS TO BE THE OXIDE REMAINS OF PRIMARY SULFIDES. PRIMARY SULFIDES ARE TETRAHEDRITE-TENNANTITE, GALENA, CHALCOPYRITE, AND PYRITE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1987 Shubat, Michael A. Utah Geological and Mineral Survey

Beyond USGS

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