New York Claim

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Silver, Lead, Gold, 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. 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. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10020066
MRDS ID DC12280
Record type Site
Current site name New York Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.87668, 40.19632 (WGS84)
Elevation 1871
Relative position APPROX. 3100 FT. NORTH OF GOLD HILL PASS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ochre Mountain(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 28,21 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SE OF SW OF SE 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Gold Tertiary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Plumbojarosite Ore
Hematite Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Wollastonite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Bleaching, Recrystallization, Silication

Analytical data

Result ASSAYS BY 1927 OWNERS AFTER DEVELOPMENT WORK IN THE SAME YEAR: AU, $4.40 PER TON
Result AG, 12 OZ. PER TON
Result 8-9 PERCENT PB.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.87668, 40.19632

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range
Type of structure Local
Structure description N60w-Striking, Right Lateral-Slip Fault North Of The Workings

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike NW
    Dip SW
    Width 1.22M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Northwest-Striking Fissures

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

Comments on the workings information

  • FOUR SHAFTS (TWO WITHIN 19 FT. OF EACH OTHER), A 35 FT. LONG CUT, AND A N22W-TRENDING, 175 FT. LONG ADIT WITH TWO WINZES (30 AND 40 FT. DEEP) AND A 30 FT. RAISE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit REPLACEMENT VEINS, 1-4 FT. WIDE, ALONG GENERALLY NORTHWEST-STRIKING FISSURES.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1980 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAR-1994 Messenger, Harold M. III U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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