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Black Rock Claims

Past Producer in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodity Manganese
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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. 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. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10020254
MRDS ID DC12878
Record type Site
Current site name Black Rock Claims
Alternate or previous names Baby Elephant, Strang, Evening Star, Huber - Rydalch

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.71775, 39.933 (WGS84)
Elevation 2060
Relative position IN DEATH CANYON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Indian Springs(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lynndyl(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Delta(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 010S 008W 23 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • BELOW 100 FT, A DENSE VEIN CONTAINS RHODONITE, RHODOCHROSITE, PYRITE, GALENA, SPHALERITE

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrolusite Ore
Wad Ore
Calcite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidized Ore

Analytical data

Result AVG. 25 % M

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.71775, 39.933
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Quartzite (N - S, 20 - 25 E), Fault (Nw, 90 ; Ew, Steep)

Ore body information

  • Depth to bottom 30.48M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Faults

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Erickson District

Comments on the production information

  • TWO PRODUCTION YEARS, 1936, 1944

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: SUBSTANTIAL RESERVE OF LOW-GRADE ORE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CRITTENDEN,M.D.,JR., 1951, MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF WESTERN UTAH: USGS BULL. 979-A, P. 40.

  • Deposit

    USBM REPT. OF INVEST. # 4601

  • Deposit

    USBM WAR MIN. REPT.

  • Deposit

    A) USBM MISC. REPT.

  • Deposit

    B) USBM ACCESS ROAD REPT.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1974 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-OCT-1978 Wong, George (Tooker, Ed) 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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