Fortuna Prospect

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Gold, Lead, Silver, Arsenic, Copper, Manganese
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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021208
MRDS ID DC15199
Record type Site
Current site name Fortuna Prospect
Alternate or previous names Lincoln Lode
Related records 10251894

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.81362, 40.07632 (WGS84)
Elevation 1890
Relative position 4850 FT. SOUTH 5 WEST 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

Federal(land status)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 009S 017W 06 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SW NW OF NW

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Silver Tertiary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary
Copper Tertiary
Manganese Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Conichalcite Ore
Malachite Ore
Pyrolusite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result SAMPLE OF 3 1/2 FT VEIN IN FORTUNA MINE ASSAYED 0.08 OZ AU PERTON AND 10 OZ AG PER TON.

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) -113.81362, 40.07632

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N48E
    Dip 30NW
    Thickness 1.22M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fissures

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Clifton District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Success Investment Co.

Comments on the workings information

  • 190-FT ADIT, 40-45 FT INCLINED ADIT AND SEVERAL PROSPECT PITS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: THOMSON, 1973, MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE DEEP CREEK MTN: UGMS BULL. 99, P. 28

  • Deposit

    NOLAN, T.B., 1935, THE GOLD HILL MINING DISTRICT, UTAH: USGS PP 177

  • Deposit

    THOMSON, K.C., 1973, MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE DEEP CREEK MTN, TOOELE AND JUAB CO., UTAH: GEOL. AND MINING SURVEY BULL. 99, P. 27-8

  • Deposit

    1935 GEOLMAP NOLAN, PROF. PAPER 177

  • Deposit

    1973 RECON UTAH GEOL SURVEY BULL. 99

  • Production

    DOELLING, H.H., 1981, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURVEY

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1979 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.