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Flying Dutchman Group

Past Producer in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Copper, Fluorine-Fluorite, Uranium, Manganese
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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. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10102145
MRDS ID DC15273
Record type Site
Current site name Flying Dutchman Group
Alternate or previous names Silver Shield
Related records 10088997

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.5183, 39.91938 (WGS84)
Elevation 1931
Relative position WEST SIDE NEAR MOUTH OF HARD - TO - BEAT CANYON.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Erickson Knoll(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lynndyl(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Delta(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Sevier(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier 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 010S 006W 28 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Tertiary
Uranium Tertiary
Manganese Critical Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • FLUORITE CONTAINS SMALL AMOUNT OF URANINITE.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Fluorite Ore
Pyrite Ore

Analytical data

Result AVG. 3 - 5 % C

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.5183, 39.91938
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description South Flank Fault (N 45 W)

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR MASSES
    Strike N 30 W
    Dip 50 SW
    Width 4.57M

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: ORDER OF CRYSTALLIZATION: PYRITE, FLUORITE, CHALCOPYRITE, QUARTZ. THE VEINS CAN BE TRACE FROM BURNED CANYON TO FLYING DUTCHMAN MINE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Erickson District

Comments on the production information

  • PROD 1929 , AMOUNT UNKNOWN

Comments on the workings information

  • TWO INCLINE SHAFT, MINE FLOODED

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BUTLER,B.S. AND OTHERS, 1920, ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH: USGS PROF. PAPER 111, P. 428.

  • Deposit

    USBM MIN. RES. 1929; 1930

  • Deposit

    COHENOUR,R.E., 1959, SHEEPROCK MTNS.: UTAH GEOL. & MIN. SURV., BULL. 63, P. 117.

  • Deposit

    BULLOCK, K. C., 1976 , FLUORITE OCCURRENCES IN UTAH: UTAH GEOL & MIN SURV BULL 110 , P. 81

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit FOUR MAIN FISSURE VEINS
Deposit DEVELOPED WITH COPPER JACK

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

Beyond USGS

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

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