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Herat Mine

Producer in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Silver, Lead, Gold, Copper, 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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10108887
MRDS ID DC15197
Record type Site
Current site name Herat Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.81584, 40.10465 (WGS84)
Elevation 1893
Relative position 1000 FT NE OF CLIFTON

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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 008S 018W 25 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Gold Secondary
Copper Secondary
Iron Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ANALYSIS IS FROM THE SLAG AND SPEISS FROM THE SMELTER DUMP.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Anglesite Ore
Hematite Ore
Limonite Ore
Plumbojarosite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Limestone Alter To Lime - Silicate Rocks. Ore Is Completely Oxidized.

Analytical data

Result 1920 : AVG. 0.025 OZ/TON AU, 11.1 OZ/TON AG, 0.3 % CU, 7.4 % PB. 1923 : AVG. 0.021 OZ/TON AU, 16.0 OZ/TON AG, 0.15 % CU, 11.4 % PB

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Eocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.81584, 40.10465
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Clifton (Gold Hill) District

Comments on the production information

  • PROD 1923

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NOLAN,T.B., 1935, THE GOLD HILL MINING DISTRICT: USGS PROF. PAPER 177, P. 162.

  • Deposit

    USGS MINERAL RESOURCE YEARBOOK 1923; USBM MINERAL RESOURCE YEARBOOK 1946

  • Deposit

    PERRY,L.I. & MCCARTHY,B.M., 1977, LEAD AND ZINC IN UTAH: UTAH GEOL. & MIN. SURV., ECON. GEOL. SECT., OPEN-FILE REPT. NO. 22, P. 417.

  • Deposit

    CONSV. COMP. DATE, 02-18-1965

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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