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Minnehaha

Producer in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Silver, Copper, Gold, 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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10108885
MRDS ID DC15170
Record type Site
Current site name Minnehaha

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.79473, 40.08965 (WGS84)
Elevation 1841
Relative position ALONG GOSHUTE WASH, ONE MILE EAST OF MONTEZUMA PEAK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Clifton(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wildcat Mountain(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(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

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 008S 017W 32 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • 13 CLAIMS

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Copper Primary
Gold Secondary
Iron Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ANALYSIS IS FROM THE ALBERT CLAIM

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Chrysocolla Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Oquirrh Fm Has Been Converted To Jasperoid For 50 Ft From The Contact

Analytical data

Result 1925 : $1.60/TON AU, 6 - 7 OZ/TON AG, 5 - 16 % CU

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Eocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.79473, 40.08965
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Post - Ore Shearing

Ore body information

  • General form IN SHEETLIKE LAYERS
    Strike E - SE
    Dip LOW

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: THE ORE ZONE IS ESSENTIALLY BARREN CONSISTING OF JASPEROID VERY RICH IN IRON OXIDES

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Clifton (Gold Hill) District

Comments on the production information

  • PROD 1912, 1925

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NOLAN,T.B., 1935, THE GOLD HILL MINING DISTRICT: USGS PROF. PAPER 177, P. 127-128.

  • Deposit

    CONSV. COMP. DATE, 03-28-1955

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ALONG CONTACT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1975 Mc Coy, Gail U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1978 Wong, George (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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