Section 12 Prospect

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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10015817
MRDS ID DB02066
Record type Site
Current site name Section 12 Prospect
Related records 10202877

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.75363, 41.08048 (WGS84)
Elevation 1417
Relative position 35 MILES NORTH OF WENDOVER

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(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 NW OF NW Utah

Comments on the location information

  • 1.5 MILES NORTH-NORTHEAST OF COPPER BLOSSOM MINE AND 4.5 MILES NORTH-NORTHEAST OF DONNER-REED PASS ON EAST FLANK OF SILVER ISLAND MOUNTAINS.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Barite Gangue
Calcite Gangue
Hematite Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Siderite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Guilmette Formation
    Rock description Guilmette Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Devonian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Devonian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.75363, 41.08048

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR-TABULAR
    Strike N 30 DEG E
    Dip 45 DEG SE
    Thickness 3.05M
    Length 60.96M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • 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

  • 65 FOOT ADIT, DOGHOLE AND SHALLOW PITS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BUTLER, B. S., 1920 , ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH: USGS PROF. PAPER 111, 486 - 488 .

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, H. H., (), GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF BOX ELDER COUNTY, UTAH: UGMS BULL.

  • Deposit

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

  • Reserve-Resource

    DOELLING (1979)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1979 Doelling, Hellmut H. Bureau of Land Management
Updater 01-FEB-1994 Humphries, S. E. (Marcus, S.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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