| Deposit ID | 10021207 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | DC15198 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Silver King |
| Alternate or previous names | Mineral Hill |
| Geographic coordinates: | -113.81334, 40.09354 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Relative position | W & N SLOPES OF MONTEZUMA PEAK |
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)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Utah | Tooele |
| Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salt Lake | 008S | 018W | 30 | Utah |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Silver | Primary |
| Copper | Primary |
| Lead | Secondary |
| Gold | Secondary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Anglesite | Ore |
| Chrysocolla | Ore |
| Malachite | Ore |
| Plumbojarosite | Ore |
| Result | 1912 - 6 OZ/TON AG, 18 % CU |
|---|---|
| Result | 1917 - 9.3 OZ/TON AG, 8.1 % CU |
| Result | 1923 - 0.035 OZ/TON AU, 18.1 OZ/TON AG, 2.77 % CU, 5.19 % PB. |
| Host or associated | Associated | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite | ||||
| |||||
| Host or associated | Host |
|---|---|
| Rock type | Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone |
| (1) | -113.81334, 40.09354 |
|---|
| Type of structure | Local |
|---|---|
| Structure description | Oquirrh Fm Strike N 40 W, Dip 20 Ne. A Fault At The Bottom Of The Shaft Strikes N 60 W, Dip 30 Se, Throw 5 Ft. |
| Strike | NE |
|---|---|
| Dip | 85 NW |
| Development status | Producer |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Significant | No |
| District name | Clifton (Gold Hill) District |
|---|
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | DC15198 |
NOLAN,T.B., 1935, THE GOLD HILL MINING DISTRICT: USGS PROF. PAPER 177, P. 163.
USGS MIN. RES. 1920; 1921; 1922; 1923
USBM MIN. RES. 1926; 1928; 1946
CONSV. COMP. DATE, 02-18-1965
| 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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