Dry Canyon Prospect

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Silver, 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. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10012660
MRDS ID D008447
Record type Site
Current site name Dry Canyon Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.63887, 40.41077 (WGS84)
Elevation 2164
Relative position APPROX. 6 MI. EAST OF THE SKULL VALLEY INDIAN RESERVATION ENTRANCE ON THE SKULL VALLEY ROAD.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Deseret Peak West(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Rush Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Skull Valley(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Deseret Peak Wilderness(Wilderness)

Wilderness FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 005S 007W 04 SE OF NE SW Utah

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATED IN DRY CANYON, MAP REFERENCE IS AN ADIT.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Tertiary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Malachite Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification

Analytical data

Result ASSAY FROM CHIP-CHANNEL SAMPLE: AG, 4.80 OZ. PER TON
Result AU, OZ PER TON, .011
Result CU PERCENT 1.88, PB PERCENT .00., ZN PERCENT .069
Result AS PERCENT .090
Result SB PERCENT .720.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Ophir Group
    Rock description Ophir Group
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.63887, 40.41077

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Syncline; Synclinal Axis Is Parallel With Deseret Peak Anticlinal Axis.

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N68E
    Dip 88NW
    Width 0.13M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • N68e, 88nw Fissure

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Columbia

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner West Stansbury Mining Co.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Wilson Bear

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 21.34M

Comments on the workings information

  • 70 FT ADIT WITH A WINZE, DEPTH UNKNOWN, AND A 15 15 FT SHAFT WITH CONNECTED DRIFT, LENGTH UNKNOWN, OUTSIDE THE PORTAL

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    RIGBY, J.K., 1958, GEOLOGY OF THE STANSBURY MOUNTAINS, TOOELE COUNTY, UTAH: GUIDEBOOK TO THE GEOLOGY OF UTAH, NUMBER 13, UTAH GEOL. SOCIETY, 175P.

  • Deposit

    1980 GEOLMAP UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1980 Messenger, Harold M. III Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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