Hickman Canyon Mining and Dev. Co. Prospect

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodity Copper
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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10020013
MRDS ID DC12170
Record type Site
Current site name Hickman Canyon Mining and Dev. Co. Prospect
Alternate or previous names Bear Fork Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.60025, 40.44716 (WGS84)
Elevation 2707
Relative position APPROX. 3750 FT. SW OF BOX ELDER PASS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Deseret Peak East(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Rush Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rush-Tooele Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(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)

Deseret Peak Wilderness(Wilderness)

Wilderness FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
004S 007W 26 NE OF NW OF NE Utah

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATED AT THE HEAD OF BEAR FORK

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Goethite Gangue
Limonite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation

Analytical data

Result ASSAYS FROM THE MINERALIZED BRECCIA ZONE SHOW A FRACTION OF A PERCENT IN COPPER AND ZINC.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.60025, 40.44716

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Deseret Anticline

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N22E
    Dip VERTICAL
    Thickness 3.66M
    Depth to top 0M

Comments on the geologic information

  • MALACHITE, AZURITE, AND CUPRITE ARE PRESENT IN GLACIAL COLLURIUM BELOW THE WORKINGS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Columbia

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Gus Anderson, Hardy Odell

Comments on the production information

  • NO PRODUCTION FIGURES RECORDED.

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF THREE ADITS, ALL CAVED IN, AND A VERTICAL SHAFT 25 DEEP THAT IS PARTIALLY CAVED, ORIGINALLY 48 FT. DEEP.

Comments on development

  • THE HICKMAN CANYON MINING AND DEV. CO. PROPERTY CONSISTED OF TWELVE UNPATENTED MINING CLAIMS IN 1943. THE ORIGINAL FILINGS WERE MADE DURING 1939 BY GUS ANDERSON AND ASSOCIATES.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, 1943, WAR MINERALS REPORT

  • Deposit

    MESSENGER, H.M. III, 1980, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY.

  • Deposit

    RIGBY, J.K., 1958, GEOLOGY OF THE STANSBURY MOUNTAINS, TOOELE CO., UTAH; GUIDEBOOK TO THE GEOLOGY OF UTAH, NO. 13, UTAH GEOL. SOCIETY.

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, 1943, WAR MINERALS REPORT, UNPUBLISHED OPEN FILE REPORT.

  • Deposit

    1943 GEOLMAP USBM-WAR MINERALS REPORT

  • Deposit

    1980 RECON UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY

  • Production

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, 1943, WAR MINERALS REPORT, UNPUBLISHED.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE MINERALIZED BRECCIA ZONE DESCRIBED IS ON THE EAST WALL OF THE SHAFT. NO IN-PLACE ORE MINERALS WERE NOTED BY THE USBM PERSONNEL DURING THEIR UNDERGROUND EXAMINATION.
Deposit THE LOCATION GIVEN IN RECORD NO. DC12170 WAS INCORRECT. ; INFO.SRC : 3 FIELD OBSERV; 2 UNPUB REPT; 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1980 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAR-1988 Messenger, Harold M. III U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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