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Iron Claims

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodity Iron
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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. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021202
MRDS ID DC15190
Record type Site
Current site name Iron Claims
Alternate or previous names Iron Blowout

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.90279, 40.11521 (WGS84)
Elevation 1859

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ibapah(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 20 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • 4 UNPATENTED CLAIMS

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ORE RANGES FROM HARD SILICEOUS TO SOFT FRIABLE VARIETIES

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Goethite Ore
Hematite Ore
Limonite Ore

Analytical data

Result CHEMICAL ANALYSIS: 41.4 % FE, 24.2 % SIO2 , 0.01 % S, 0.015 % P, 0.29 % MN

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form SPOTTY
    Length 4.57M
    Width 1.52M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • East - West Trending Fault Zone 500 Ft Wide Containing Highly Brecciated Limestone And Orthoquartzite.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Clifton (Gold Hill) District

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • LESS THAN 200 TONS

Comments on the workings information

  • 60 FT TEST PIT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BULLOCK,K.C., 1970, IRON DEPOSITS OF UTAH: UTAH GEOL. & MIN. SURV., BULL. 88, P. 75.

  • Deposit

    THOMSON, K. C., 1973 , MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE DEEP CK MTNS, TOOELE & JUAB CO, UTAH: UTAH GEOL & MINER. SURV. BULL 99 , P. 23

  • Deposit

    CONSV. COMP. DATE, 06-29-1971

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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