Ekker Tungsten Prospect

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodity Tungsten
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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10088980
MRDS ID RE00177
Record type Site
Current site name Ekker Tungsten Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.52663, 39.93855 (WGS84)
Elevation 2027
Relative position IN COTTONWOOD (ALBERT EKKER) CANYON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Erickson Knoll(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lynndyl(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Delta(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Sevier(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 10S 6W 21 NE4 OF NE4 OF SW Utah

Comments on the location information

  • NEAR THE CENTER OF SEC. 21

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Wolframite Ore
Biotite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Greisenization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.52663, 39.93855

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR, LENTICULAR
    Strike E-W
    Dip VERTICAL
    Length 121.92M
  • General form TABULAR, LENTICULAR
    Dip VERTICAL

Comments on the geologic information

  • BOTH THE HANGING AND FOOTWALLS ARE OF LIMONITE STAINED PORPHYRITIC GRANITE. GREISEN ZONES ARE MORE PROMINENT IN THE EAST SEGMENT OF THE VEIN

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Columbia District

Comments on the production information

  • SEVERAL TONS OF ORE WERE STOCKPILED BUT NONE WERE SHIPPED

Comments on the workings information

  • PITS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    COHENOUR, R.E., 1959, SHEEPROCK MOUNTAINS, TOOELE AND JUAB COUNTIES: UGMS BULL. 63, P. 118

  • Deposit

    HANSEN, L.A., 1981, GEOLOGIC MAP IN UNPATENTED MINING CLAIM FILE 182633, BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, UTAH STATE OFFICE, SALT LAKE CITY

  • Deposit

    MEEVES, H.C., NONPEGMATITIC BERYLLIUM OCCURRENCES: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, REPORT OF INVESTIGATION 6828, P. 49-50

  • Deposit

    MESSENGER, H.M. III, 1981, ON-SITE INVESTIGATION: UGMS; REF. 5 GRIFFITTS, W.R., 1969, BERYLLIUM, IN MINERAL AND WATER RESOURCES OF UTAH: UGMS BULL. 73; REF. 6 HARRIS, DEVERLE, 1958, THE GEOLOGY OF THE DUTCH PEAK AREA, SHEEPROCK RANGE, TOOELE COUNTY, UTAH: UNPUBL. M.S. THESIS, BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIV.; REF. 7 U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, 1961, SHEEPROCK BERYL: MINERAL PROPERTY FILE 8.32, UNPUBL. OPEN-FILE REPT.

  • Production

    COHENOUR, R.E., 1959, P. 118

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit PODS OF ORE ARE EXPOSED, AT INTERVALS, FOR A DISTANCE OF APPROX. 400 FT.
Deposit THE GREISEN ZONES ARE REFERRED TO AS THE "BLUE DUMMY" VEINS BY LOCAL PROSPECTORS ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1982 Messenger, Harold M. III Utah Geological and Mineral Survey

Beyond USGS

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