Brown Rock Prospects

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Barium-Barite, Iron
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. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021201
MRDS ID DC15188
Record type Site
Current site name Brown Rock Prospects
Alternate or previous names Gold Hill Barite-Limonite, Prospects
Related records 10155337

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.85391, 40.13215 (WGS84)
Elevation 1932
Relative position 5300 FEET SOUTH OF OCHRE SPRINGS

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 008S 018W 10,14,15 SE OF SE OF NE Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Barium-Barite Critical Primary
Iron Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Ore
Goethite Unknown
Hematite Unknown
Limonite Unknown

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification, Argillization, Hematitization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Oquirrh Formation;Manning Canyon Formation;Ochre Mountain Limestone
    Rock description Oquirrh Formation;Manning Canyon Formation;Ochre Mountain Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.85391, 40.13215

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range
Type of structure Local
Structure description Northwest-Striking Faults

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike NW
    Dip NE

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Northwest-Striking Faults, Bedding Planes

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Medium
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 71.63M

Comments on the workings information

  • FIVE ADITS (120 FT., 87 FT., 28 FT., 2 CAVED), A 10 FT. SHAFT, AND A NUMBER OF BULLDOZER CUTS, OPENCUTS, AND PITS.A F1 MESSENGER, H.M. III, 1980, ON-SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit IRON OXIDES AND BARITE ARE ABUNDANT IN NORTH TO NORTHWEST-STRIKING FAULT ZONES MARKED BY PROMINENT JASPEROID ZONES CROPPING-OUT FOR THOUSANDS OF FEET. BARITE REPL. ZONES ARE ALSO COMMON IN THE AREAS BETWEEN THESE FAULTS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1981 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUL-1991 Messenger, Harold M. III U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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