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Albert Mine

Past Producer in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Arsenic
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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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10098482
MRDS ID M057968
Record type Site
Current site name Albert Mine
Alternate or previous names Minnehaha Group, Hancock

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.77473, 40.08576 (WGS84)
Elevation 1618
Relative position 10,800 FT SOUTH 80 EAST OF MONTEZUMA PEAK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Clifton(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

Federal(land status)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 008S 017W 33,32 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • NW NW OF SW

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Primary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Chrysocolla Ore
Malachite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.77473, 40.08576
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 3.05M
    Depth to top 0M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Clifton District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Comments on the production information

  • IN 1912 AND 1925 SMALL SHIPMENTS CONTAINED $1.60 IN GOLD, 6-7 OZ/TON SILVER AND FROM 5-16 PERCENT COPPER

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 57.91M

Comments on the workings information

  • 190 FT ADIT; 30 FT, 10 FT, AND 30 FT DECLINES, ANOTHER SHORT ADIT OF UNKNOWN LENGTH, MANY PITS AND CUTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit JASPEROID LEDGE EXTENDS 1500 FT ALONG OUTCROP AND THERE ARE MANY MINERALIZED FISSURE ZONES WITHIN IT.

Reporter information

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

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

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