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Blaine

Past Producer in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Lead, Zinc, Silver, 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. 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. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10102144
MRDS ID DC15269
Record type Site
Current site name Blaine
Alternate or previous names Ida, Desert View

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.71303, 39.90744 (WGS84)
Elevation 1920
Relative position IN BLAINE CANYON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Indian Springs(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lynndyl(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Delta(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 010S 008W 35 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Primary
Silver Primary
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Pyrite Ore

Analytical data

Result 12 TON SAMPLE: 51 % ZN, 13 % PB, 4 OZ/TON AG, 0.021 OZ/TON AU

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.71303, 39.90744
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Reverse Fault (N 10 W, 42 W)

Ore body information

  • General form SMALL SHOOTS
    Strike N 65 - 70 W
    Dip 75 N
    Thickness 0.35M
    Length 21.34M
    Width 0.3M

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: QUARTZITE: DARK, WEATHERED, IMPURE. QUARTZITE CONTAINS SEVERAL INTERCALATED GREEN MASSIVE TO SHALY BEDS CONTAINING ABUNDANT CHLORITE, SERICITE AND CALCITE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Erickson District

Comments on the production information

  • AMOUNT UNKNOWN

Comments on the workings information

  • OLD SHAFT, THREE TUNNELS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BUTLER,B.S. AND OTHERS, 1920, ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH: USGS PROF. PAPER 111

  • Deposit

    CONSV. COMP. DATE, 03-21-1958

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1979 Wong, George U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-OCT-1978 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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