Indian Boy Claim

Past Producer in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Copper, Manganese, Silver
Sections on this page
  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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10106557
MRDS ID D007338
Record type Site
Current site name Indian Boy Claim
Alternate or previous names Highland Lassie
Related records 10300889

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.75942, 39.91938 (WGS84)
Elevation 1798
Relative position 1/4 MILES NORTH OF SIX MILE SPRINGS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Coyote 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 28,29,32,33 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF THESE FOUR SECTIONS

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Manganese Critical Primary
Silver Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Chrysocolla Ore
Limonite Ore
Malachite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification, Limonitization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Quartzites, Shales
    Rock description Quartzites, Shales
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.75942, 39.91938

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range

Ore body information

  • General form VEIN/FISSURE

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fissure

Comments on the geologic information

  • CHALCOPYRITE ALTERS TO PITCHY BLACK AND BROWN LIMONITE, MALACHITE, AND CHRYSOCOLLA ACCOMPANIED BY FINE-GRAINED VEIN QUARTZ.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Erickson

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the production information

  • ORE WAS PRODUCED DURING THE YEARS 1930-1940

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS ARE ALL CAVED

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BUTLER, B.S., ET AL, 1920, THE ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH: USGS PROF. PAPER NO. 111, P. 456

  • Deposit

    MOHAMMAD, H., 1981, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURVEY.

  • Deposit

    1920 DIREXPL BUTLER, B.S., ET.AL

  • Production

    USGS BULL. 979A, 1951; P 44; USGS BULL. 1135B, P8, 54; USGS PROF. PAP. 111, P 456

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE ORE ZONE FOLLOWS FISSURE WHICH FOR A SHORT DISTANCE DIPPED STEEPLY WEST, NORMAL TO THE DIP OF THE QUARTZITES, THEN CHANGED TO A STEEP EASTERLY DIP AND PITCHED OUT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1981 Mohammad, Hasan Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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