| Deposit ID | 10088440 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | DC12273 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Fraction Lode Mine |
| Alternate or previous names | Timm Mine |
| Geographic coordinates: | -113.84974, 40.19549 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Elevation | 1823 |
| Relative position | 5600 FT. S58E OF WOODMAN PEAK (7260 FT.) |
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)
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)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Utah | Tooele |
| Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salt Lake | 007S | 018W | 26 | NW OF NW | Utah |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Tungsten Critical | Primary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Scheelite | Ore |
| Calcite | Gangue |
| Epidote | Gangue |
| Garnet | Gangue |
| Quartz | Gangue |
| Host or associated | Associated | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite | ||||||||
| Rock unit name | Gold Hill Stock | ||||||||
| Rock description | Gold Hill Stock | ||||||||
| |||||||||
| Host or associated | Host |
|---|---|
| Rock type | Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone |
| Rock unit name | Ochre Mountain Limestone |
| Rock description | Ochre Mountain Limestone |
| (1) | -113.84974, 40.19549 |
|---|
| Type of structure | Regional |
|---|---|
| Structure description | Basin And Range |
| Type of structure | Local |
| Structure description | Pool Canyon Fault |
| General form | TABULAR |
|---|---|
| Thickness | 12.19M |
| Length | 36.58M |
| Width | 7.62M |
| Development status | Past Producer |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Deposit size | Small |
| Significant | No |
| Discovery year | 1941 |
| Discoverer | Eugene Timm |
| Year of first production | 1942 |
| District name | Clifton (Gold Hill) District |
|---|
| Ownership category | BLM Administrative Area |
|---|
| Type | Owner |
|---|---|
| Owner | E. Timm, Doris Halverson |
| Type | In-situ | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Estimate year | 1944 | ||||||||||||||
| Inferred | 226000mt ore | ||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||
| Type of workings | Surface/Underground |
|---|---|
| Area | 0.158HA |
| Overall length | 91.44M |
| Overall width | 18.29M |
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | DC12273 |
EVERETT, F.D., 1961, TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS IN UTAH: USBM INF. CIRC. 8014, P. 216
MESSENGER, H.M. III, 1980, ON-SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY
NOLAN, T.B., 1935, THE GOLD HILL MINING DISTRICT, UTAH: U.S.G.S. PROF. PAPER 177
U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, 1944, MINERAL PROPERTY FILE 74.13
U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, 1953, MINERALS YEARBOOK
WILSON, S.R., 1958, GOLD HILL, UTAH, CLIFTON DISTRICT, TOOELE COUNTY: UNPUB. REPORT 80.
1935 GEOLMAP NOLAN, T.B. PROF. PAPER 177, PL. 2
1942 RECON USBM, MINERAL PROPERTY FILE 74.13
WILSON, S.R., 1958, UNPUBLISHED REPORT; USBM, 1953, MINERALS YEARBOOK
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | THE DIMENSIONS GIVEN REPRESENT THE SIZE OF THE ORIGINAL ORE BODY, AS EXPOSED ON THE SURFACE. |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 01-SEP-1981 | Unknown | U.S. Geological Survey | |
| Updater | 01-MAY-1985 | Messenger, Harold M. III | U.S. Geological Survey |
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