Tobar Claim

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Tungsten, Copper
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. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10094492
MRDS ID D008369
Record type Site
Current site name Tobar Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.84252, 40.19243 (WGS84)
Elevation 1716
Relative position 8000 FT S62E OF WOODMAN PEAK (7260 FT)

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 018W 26 NW OF SW NE Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Tertiary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Bleaching, Recrystallization, Silication

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Gold Hill Stock;Quartz Porphyry
    Rock description Gold Hill Stock;Quartz Porphyry
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Ochre Mountain Limestone
    Rock description Ochre Mountain Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.84252, 40.19243

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range
Type of structure Local
Structure description Pool Canyon Fault

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Intersecting N30w, 47sw Iron Oxide Zone And N65 W, Vertically Dipping Tactite Zone

Comments on the geologic information

  • A N35E (ESTIMATED STRIKE), VERTICALLY DIPPING QUARTZ PORPHYRY DIKE IS EXPOSED ON THE SOUTH END OF THE BULLDOZER CUT.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Clifton (Gold Hill) Distrist

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Danene And Blake Probert

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit A BLACK, SHALY HORNFELS, PROBABLY OF THE MANNING CANYON FORMATION, IS IN THE HANGING WALL OF THE N30W, 47SW IRON OXIDE ZONE. ; INFO.SRC : 3 FIELD OBSERV; 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1980 Messenger, Harold M. III Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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