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Clay's Bench

Past Producer in Salt Lake county in Utah, United States with commodity Gold
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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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10102103
MRDS ID DC14196
Record type Site
Current site name Clay's Bench

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.1508, 40.528 (WGS84)
Elevation 1890
Relative position MINE HAS BEEN EXCAVATED BY THE OPEN PIT MINE.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Salt Lake(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bingham Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Jordan(hydrologic unit)

Jordan(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Salt Lake

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 003S 003W 26 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Sand and Gravel
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 60.96M
    Length 304.8M
    Width 304.8M

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: GRAVEL IS COMPOSED OF ANGULAR AND SUBANGULAR QUARTZITE, FINE-GRAIN GRANULAR MONZONITE, COARSE PORPHYRY, AND QUARTZITE BRECCIA.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Production years BEGAN IN 1868

Mining district

District name Bingham District

Comments on the production information

  • NO QUANT. DATA

Comments on the workings information

  • DEVELOPMENT CONSIST OF SHORT TUNNELS, HYDRAULIC PITS, AND A LONG TUNNEL.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit OVERLIES QUARTZITE

Reporter information

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

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

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