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Hidden Treasure Prospect

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodity Copper
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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. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10012648
MRDS ID D008413
Record type Site
Current site name Hidden Treasure Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.80251, 40.14604 (WGS84)
Elevation 1743
Relative position 6500 FT N45E. 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)

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 Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 008S 017W 07 SE OF SW OF NE Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation

Host and associated rocks

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

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE QUARTZ MONZONITE IS MEDIUM-GRAINED AND SLIGHTLY PORPHYRITIC.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Clifton (Gold Hill) District)

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Eugene Timm

Comments on the workings information

  • THE PRINCIPAL WORKINGS CONSIST OF AN ADIT APPROXIMATELY 240 FT. LONG, AND A CONNECTING SHAFT WITH AN ESTIMATED DEPTH OF 90-100 FT., OF WHICH 40-50 FT. IS A WINZE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

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

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