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Wasatch Iron and Gold Mining Co.

Producer in Box Elder county in Utah, United States with commodity Iron
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  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 10108673
MRDS ID DC13326
Record type Site
Current site name Wasatch Iron and Gold Mining Co.
Related records 10154663

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.01998, 41.42826 (WGS84)
Elevation 1676
Relative position NW 1/4 SE 1/4

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Box Elder(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Willard(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Promontory Point(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Brigham City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Weber(hydrologic unit)

Weber(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Box Elder

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 008N 002W 13 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • 1:24000 QUADRANGLE MAP IS A 1969 EDITION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Hematite Ore
Magnetite Ore
Specularite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Slate
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Till

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.01998, 41.42826
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description The Mineral Fork Fm, Consisting Of Quartzite, Slate And Tillite, Is Thrust Over Cambrian Tintic Quartzite, Ophir Shale And Undifferentiated Cambrian Carbonate Strata

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Willard District

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BULLOCK,KC, 1970, IRON DEPOSITS OF UTAH: UTAH GEOL & MIN SURV BULL 88, P.17.

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 03-27-1958

  • Reserve-Resource

    BULLOCK, K. C., IRON DEPOSITS OF UTAH: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURVEY BULL 88, DEC. 1970 , P. 17

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THERE ARE TWO MAIN OUTCROPS, ONE AT 5500 FT. AND THE OTHER IS SEVERAL HUNDRED FT. HIGHER AND ONE-HALF MILE FARTHER EAST.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1974 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUN-1978 Wong, George (Tooker, Ed) U.S. Geological Survey

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