Unidentified Prospect

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodity Barium-Barite
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. 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. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10090897
MRDS ID D008394
Record type Site
Current site name Unidentified Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.80195, 40.16549 (WGS84)
Elevation 1657
Relative position APPROX. 2000 FT. N 32 E OF THE GOLD HILL (WESTERN UTAH) MINE.

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

BLM Administrative Area(land status)

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 SW OF SE Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Barium-Barite Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Ore
Limonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Siderite Gangue

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
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.80195, 40.16549

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Width 0.3M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Northwest And Northeast-Striking Fissures

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Clifton (Gold Hill) District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    NOLAN, T. B., 1935, THE GOLD HILL MINING DISTRICT: USGS PROF. PAPER 177

  • Deposit

    1935 GEOLMAP NOLAN, T. B., PROF. PAPER 177, P1.2

  • Deposit

    1981 RECON UGMS, OPEN FILE NOTES

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1981 Messenger, Harold M. III Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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