New Baltimore Mine

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021185
MRDS ID DC15169
Record type Site
Current site name New Baltimore Mine
Related records 10203445

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.79945, 40.13576 (WGS84)
Elevation 1682
Relative position 5400 FT N82E OF LUCKY DAY KNOB.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gold Hill(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 008S 017W 18 SW OF NE OF NE Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Gold Primary
Zinc Critical Secondary
Copper Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Anglesite Ore
Cerussite Ore
Galena Ore
Malachite Ore
Mimetite Ore
Plumbojarosite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Chlorite Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Sericite Gangue

Analytical data

Result 22 TONS CONTAINED 0.02 OUNCE AU, 53 OUNCES SILVER AND 47 PERCENT LEAD.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Eocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Gold Hill Stock
    Rock description Gold Hill Stock

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N85W
    Dip VERTICAL
    Thickness 0.3M
    Length 137.16M
    Width 3.05M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Zone Of Fissuring

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Clifton (Gold Hill) District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 60.96M
    Overall length 137.16M
    Overall width 6.1M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF TRENCHES TO 25 FT IN DEPTH ALONG THE FULL 450 FT. AN ADIT UNDERLIES AND PARALLELS THE TRENCHES FOR 200 FT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: NOLAN, 1935, GOLD HILL MINING DISTRICT; USGS P.P. 177

  • Deposit

    NOLAN, T.B., 1935, THE GOLD HILL MINING DISTRICT; U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF. PAPER 177

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, H.H., AND H.M. MESSENGER III, 1981, ON-SITE INVESTIGATION UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY

  • Deposit

    1935 GEOLMAP NOLAN PROF. PAPER 177, PL. 2

  • Deposit

    1935 RECON NOLAN, T.B., PROF. PAPER 177, P. 149

  • Production

    NOLAN, 1935, THE GOLD HILL MINING DISTRICT: USGS PROF. PAPER 177

  • Reserve-Resource

    MESSENGER, H.M. III, 1981, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE SHOOTS IN 10 FT ZONE RANGE IN THICKNESS FROM A FEW INCHES TO A FOOT IN THICKNESS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1981 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-SEP-1995 Messenger, Harold M. III U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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