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Bird Mine

Past Producer in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, Gold, Copper, Zinc, Arsenic
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021186
MRDS ID DC15171
Record type Site
Current site name Bird Mine
Related records 10184466

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.81028, 40.09882 (WGS84)
Elevation 2012
Relative position 3500 FEET NORTH 15, EAST OF MONTEZUMA PEAK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Clifton(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 008S 017W 30 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SE NW OF SW UNSURVEYED, ADJOINS SO. CONFEDERATE CLAIM ON NE

Commodities

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

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Anglesite Ore
Galena Ore
Limonite Ore
Malachite Ore
Plumbojarosite Ore
Chlorite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Sericite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.81028, 40.09882
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N50E
    Dip VERTICAL
    Thickness 0.61M
    Depth to top 0M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Clifton District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the production information

  • OCCURRED IN 1926

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 54.86M

Comments on the workings information

  • SHALLOW TRENCHES, 20 FT SHAFT WITH DRIFTING ALONG STRIKE, SEVERAL SMALLER WORKINGS TO NE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit EXTENSION OF VEIN ON SOUTHERN CONFEDERATE CLAIM

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1974 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-SEP-1981 Doelling, Hellmut H. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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