Option No. 1 Claim

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodity 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10094493
MRDS ID D008375
Record type Site
Current site name Option No. 1 Claim
Alternate or previous names Hammond No. 1, Worthless No. 1

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.82779, 40.2041 (WGS84)
Elevation 1768
Relative position 8400 FT S33E OF DUTCH MTN. PEAK (7794 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 24 SW OF SE OF NW Utah

Comments on the location information

  • IDENTIFIED BY A SHAFT SYMBOL ON GOLD HILL 15 MIN

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Malachite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Prospect Mountain Quartzite
    Rock description Prospect Mountain Quartzite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) Prospect Mountain Quartzite

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR, IRREGULAR

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Clifton (Gold Hill) District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Glenn J. Martin

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 91.44M

Comments on the workings information

  • 300 FT, NORTHWEST-TRENDING ADIT IN QUARTZITE. A SHALLOW PROSPECT PIT IS APPROX. 150 FT SOUTHEAST OF THE ADIT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NO NOTICEABLE MINERALIZATION IN THE ADIT; SOME COPPER PITCH AND MALACHITE, WITH COARSELY CRYSTALINE QUARTZ, ON THE DUMP.

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.