February Claim

Occurrence in Tooele 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  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 10012653
MRDS ID D008426
Record type Site
Current site name February Claim
Alternate or previous names February Claim of Monster Mining Co.

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.84863, 40.23937 (WGS84)
Elevation 1692
Relative position 4100 FT. S56W OF WILSON HILL

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 007S 018W 11,02 NE OF NW OF NW Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Malachite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Busby Quartzite
    Rock description Busby Quartzite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range
Type of structure Local
Structure description Ochre Mountain Thrust

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N-S
    Dip 70W
    Width 1.83M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Northeast-Striking Fault

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 Private

Comments on the workings information

  • ADIT (28 FT.) WITH OPENCUT (45 FT.) -A, 10 FT. DEEP SHAFT-B, 20 FT. LONG TRENCH-C.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NOLAN THOMAS, B. 1928, STRATIGRAPHY AND STRUCTURE, GOLD HILL QUADRANGE: SOC. AM. BULL. 39 PP. 183-184

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    NOLAN, T.B., 1935, THE GOLD HILL MINING DISTRICT, UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF. PAPER 177

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, 1980, MINERAL SURVEY NO. 5329: UTAH STATE OFFICE, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH

  • Deposit

    1935 GEOLMAP NOLAN, T.B., PROF. PAPER 177, P1.2

  • Deposit

    1980 RECON UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY-OPEN FILE

  • Production

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

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE DEPOSIT IS A 1-6 FT. WIDE, N-S, 47-90W COPPER-MINERALIZED FISSURE IN QUARTZITE, SOME SHALY LS. WAS DRAGGED INTO THE FISSURE IN THE SHAFT (WORKING B)

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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