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Silver Claim

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Lead, Copper, 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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  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 10021235
MRDS ID DC15253
Record type Site
Current site name Silver Claim
Related records 10276682

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.86306, 40.00132 (WGS84)
Elevation 2438
Relative position SOUTH SIDE OF DRY CANYON

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 009S 018W 34 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Tertiary
Copper Tertiary
Iron Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • GANGUE: QTZ AND WALLROCK FRAGMENTS

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Lead Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Wallrock Show Minor Amount Of Silification Away From Fissures.

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.86306, 40.00132
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N 70 W
    Dip STEEP - NE
    Width 0.15M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Willow Springs District

Comments on the workings information

  • SMALL AMOUNT OF SHALLOW WORK

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NOLAN,T.B., 1935, THE GOLD HILL MINING DISTRICT: USGS PROF. PAPER 177, P. 168.

  • Deposit

    CONSV. COMP. DATE, 03-30-1955

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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