Unknown #2

Occurrence in Box Elder 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. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10011128
MRDS ID D005383
Record type Site
Current site name Unknown #2

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.74002, 41.08298 (WGS84)
Elevation 1494
Relative position 5 MILES NNE OF DONNER-REED PASS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Box Elder(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Crater Island East(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Newfoundland Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Brigham City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Northern 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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Box Elder

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 004N 017W 12 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • NW NE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Chrysocolla Ore
Malachite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Hematite Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Limonitization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Nounan And St. Charles Formations
    Rock description Nounan And St. Charles Formations
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.74002, 41.08298

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR-TABULAR
    Strike N 8 E
    Dip 60 DEG SE
    Thickness 1.52M
    Length 304.8M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Quartz Vein Or Fissure

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Crater Island/Silver Island

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • TWO SHAFTS; ONE 150-200 FT DEEP THE OTHER 25 FT. DEEP, SMALL PITS-ONE IS 5 FT DEEP.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BUTLER, B.S., 1920, ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH: U.S.G.S. PROF. PAPER III.

  • Deposit

    SCHAEFFER, F.E., AND ANDERSON, W.L., 1960, GEOLOGY OF THE SILVER ISLAND MOUNTAINS BOX ELDER AND TOOELE COUNTIES AND ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA: UTAH GEOLOGICAL BULL. 15.

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, H.H., IN PREPARATION, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF BOX ELDER COUNTY, UTAH: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY BULLETIN.

  • Reserve-Resource

    THIS REVIEW

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit BEST MINERALIZATION ON FOOT WALL OF QUARTZ VEIN.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1979 Doelling, Hellmut H. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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