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Success Mine

Past Producer in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Silver, Lead, Copper, Gold, Zinc
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021183
MRDS ID DC15166
Record type Site
Current site name Success Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.7864, 40.14354 (WGS84)
Elevation 1682
Relative position 2 MI SE OF GOLD HILL MINE

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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 008S 017W 08 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Copper Secondary
Gold Secondary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • SULFIDES ARE FOUND 45 FT BELOW SURFACE WITH WHITE COARSELY CRYSTALLINE QUARTZ

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Jarosite Ore
Plumbojarosite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Tennantite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Qtz Monz Thoroughly Crushed And Altered To Sericite, Calcite, And Chlorite. Complete Oxidation At The Surface.

Analytical data

Result 1920 : 0.06 OZ/TON AU, 32.3 OZ/TON AG, 1.55 % CU, 8.96 % PB

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Eocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.7864, 40.14354
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Vein Is Cut Off By An East-West Fault.

Ore body information

  • Strike NW
    Dip 30 - 45 W
    Thickness 1.22M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Clifton (Gold Hill) District

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Clyde Wilson

Comments on the production information

  • PROD 1920; 1926; 1927; 1933; 1934; 1937-1940

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NOLAN,T.B., 1935, THE GOLD HILL MINING DISTRICT: USGS PROF. PAPER 177, P. 145.

  • Deposit

    USGS MIN. RES. 1920

  • Deposit

    USBM MIN. RES. 1926; 1927; 1934; 1935; 1938; 1939; 1940

  • Deposit

    CONSV. COMP. DATE, 02-18-1965

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit QUARTZ VEINS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1975 Mc Coy, Gail U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1978 Wong, George (Tooker, Ed) U.S. Geological Survey

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