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Last Chance Deposit

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Lead, Zinc, Silver
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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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10019984
MRDS ID DC12123
Record type Site
Current site name Last Chance Deposit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.55331, 40.65854 (WGS84)
Elevation 1366
Relative position BETWEEN KIMBALL AND BROAD CANYONS, IN THE AREA OF PORTLAND CEMENT CO. LIMESTONE QUARRIES

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Flux(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rush-Tooele Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 002S 006W 08 N2 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary
Silver Tertiary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Great Blue Limestone
    Rock description Great Blue Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.55331, 40.65854
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Deseret Anticline
Type of structure Local
Structure description Northwest-Striking Normal Faults

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR/IRREGULAR

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Free Coinage

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Portland Cement Co.

Comments on the production information

  • UNRECORDED PRODUCTION, 1917-1918

Comments on the workings information

  • ACCORDING TO MR. DON REEDER, LOCAL PROSPECTOR, SOME OF THE UNDERGROUND WORKINGS OF THE LAST CHANCE DEPOSIT WERE UNCOVERED DURING LIMESTONE QUARRYING.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    REEDER, DON, 1980, PERSONAL COMMUNICATION, GRANTSVILLE, UTAH

  • Deposit

    RIGBY, J.K., 1958, GEOLOGY OF THE STANSBURY MOUNTAINS, TOOELE COUNTY, UTAH: UTAH GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 175P.

  • Production

    MIN. RES. OF THE U. S., 1917, 1918

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1981 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-SEP-1992 Messenger, Harold M. III U.S. Geological Survey

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

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