Pay Rock Prospect

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Lead, Arsenic
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. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10020065
MRDS ID DC12279
Record type Site
Current site name Pay Rock Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.82279, 40.20493 (WGS84)
Elevation 1747
Relative position 9200 FT 540 DEG E OF DUTCH PEAK

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 24 SW OF NE Utah

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATED ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF SPOTTED FAWN CANYON

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Tertiary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Plumbojarosite Ore

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.82279, 40.20493

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range
Type of structure Local
Structure description North To Northwest-Striking Fault

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Width 0.05M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • North To Northwest-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 BLM Administrative Area

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 4.88M

Comments on the workings information

  • SHALLOW, 16 FT. ADIT TRENDING S20W, AND TWO PITS AT THE TOP OF THE RIDGE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit STRINGERS ALONG BRACCIATED BEDDING PLANES

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1975 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-SEP-1981 Messenger, Harold M. III U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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