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Monte Carlo Mine

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Lead, Silver
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10091655
MRDS ID DC12120
Record type Site
Current site name Monte Carlo Mine
Related records 10251848

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.5972, 40.6416 (WGS84)
Elevation 2256
Relative position AT HEAD OF MINERS CANYON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Flux(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rush-Tooele Valleys(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 002S 007W 14 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • ACC. SW 1/4 SW 1/4 NE 1/4 SECT. 14

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Plumbojarosite Ore

Analytical data

Result A 6 INCH CUT ASSAY 1.84 % PB, 0.46 % ZN, 0.006 % CU, 0.003 OZ/TON AU, 0.007 OZ/TON AG.

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.5972, 40.6416
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: SULPHIDE ORE IN IRREGULAR PODS & LENSES

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Free Coinage District

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • RESERVE OF SEVERAL HUNDRED TONS OF ORE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    RIGBY,K.J., 1958, GEOLOGY OF THE STANSBURY MTNS.: UTAH GEOL. SOC. GUIDEBOOK NO. 13, P. 125.

  • Deposit

    PERRY,L.I. & MCCARTHY,B.M., 1977, LEAD AND ZINC IN UTAH: UTAH GEOL. & MIN. SURV., ECON. GEOL. SECT., OPEN-FILE REPT. NO. 22, P. 383-389.

  • Deposit

    CONSV. COMP. DATE, 04-13-1971

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1975 Mc Coy, Gail U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-OCT-1978 Wong, George (Tooker, Ed) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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