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Unnamed Prospect

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Copper, Fluorine-Fluorite
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10012154
MRDS ID D007602
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.28611, 40.15716 (WGS84)
Elevation 1658
Relative position APPROX. 1 MI. SE OF GPI-2

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Granite Peak(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

Military Reservation(land status)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 008S 013W 02 W2 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Ore
Malachite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Pegmatite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Aplites, Pegmatites;Leucogranite
    Rock description Aplites, Pegmatites;Leucogranite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.28611, 40.15716
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Swarms Of Northeast-Striking Pegmatite Dikes

Comments on the geologic information

  • MALACHITE STAINS AND SMALL FLUORITE GRAINS WERE SEEN IN THE ROCKS ON THE DUMP

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Granite Peak District

Land status

Ownership category Military Reservation

Comments on the workings information

  • TWO ADITS (A AND B) AND A CAVED-IN SHAFT (C).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    MOORE, W.J., 1980, PERSONAL COMMUNICATION: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, MENLO PARK, CALIFORNIA

  • Production

    MESSENGER, H.M., 1980, ON SITE INVESTIGATION UGMS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1981 Messenger, Harold M. III Bureau of Land Management

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

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