Victory No. 1

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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  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 10094840
MRDS ID DC15189
Record type Site
Current site name Victory No. 1

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.83417, 40.13243 (WGS84)
Elevation 1829
Relative position 2 1/2 MI S OF GOLD HILL TOWN

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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 008S 018W 14 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcocite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Chrysocolla Ore
Limonite Ore
Malachite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Limestone Locally Replaced By Jasperoids

Analytical data

Result LOW GRADE

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Eocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.83417, 40.13243

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLEBS & PATCHES
    Strike N 50 W
    Dip 90

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Contact Zone

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: QTZ MONZ OCCURS AS A TONGUE OF THE MAIN STOCK.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Clifton (Gold Hill) District

Comments on the production information

  • NO PRODUCTION

Comments on the workings information

  • SHALLOW SURFACE WORKINGS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NOLAN,T.B., 1935, THE GOLD HILL MINING DISTRICT: USGS PROF. PAPER 177, P. 127.

  • Deposit

    CONSV. COMP. DATE, 03-21-1958

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NEAR A CONTACT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1978 Mc Coy, Gail U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUL-1991 Wong, George (Tooker, Ed) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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