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Heaton & Campbell Placer

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. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10103837
MRDS ID M057554
Record type Site
Current site name Heaton & Campbell Placer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.15163, 40.53077 (WGS84)
Elevation 1890
Relative position SOUTH OF BINGHAM CANYON

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

Comments on the location information

  • MINE IS DUG UP BY THE OPEN PIT

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • PAYING GRAVEL IS FIVE FEET FROM BEDROCK

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Analytical data

Result IN 1905 AVERAGING $72 IN GOLD PER DAY

Host and associated rocks

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

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 15.24M
    Width 18.29M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Bingham District

Comments on the workings information

  • 1,000 FT TUNNEL

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BOUTWELL, JM, 1905 , ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF THE BINGHAM MINING DISTRICT: USGS PP 38 , P. 352

  • Deposit

    HUNTLEY, D.B., 1885 , MINING INDUSTRIES OF UTAH:TENTH CENSUS, U.S., V. 13 , P. 420

  • Deposit

    KELSEY, EB, 1871 , MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE U.S. P. 219

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1978 Wong, George (Tooker, Ed) U.S. Geological Survey

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