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Silver King

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Manganese, Copper
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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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10021240
MRDS ID DC15265
Record type Site
Current site name Silver King

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.56137, 39.96855 (WGS84)
Elevation 2021
Relative position NEAR HEAD OF SOUTH OAK BRUSH CANYON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Erickson Knoll(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lynndyl(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Delta(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Sevier(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 010S 006W 07 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • FOUR PATENTED CLAIMS

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary
Manganese Critical Primary
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Fluorite Ore
Hematite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Uraninite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Fault Zone 42 Ft From Portal Of No. 1 Tunnel (N 25 W, 50 Sw, 15 Ft Wide) At Contact Of Quartzite And Granite.

Ore body information

  • Strike N 11 - 40 W
    Dip 56 - 88 W
    Length 274.32M
    Width 0.15M

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: S. P. QUARTZITE: 462 FT THICK, WELL SORTED, WELL ROUNDED, MED GRAIN. GRANITE: IRON - STAINED, WHITE TO LIGHT - GRAY, PORPHYRITIC, MEDIUM TO COARSE GRAIN. PEGMATITE AND APLITE DIKES ARE COMMON IN THE GRANITE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Significant No

Mining district

District name Erickson District

Comments on the workings information

  • 65 FT VERTICAL SHAFT; 30 AND 50 FT INCLINE SHAFT; 200 FT PORCUPINE ADIT; 1953 - 4,350 FT OF BULLDOZING CUTS; 1,062 FT OF DRILL HOLES; SILVER KING NO. 1 TUNNEL TOTALING 1,400 FT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    COHENOUR,R.E., 1959, SHEEPROCK MTNS.: UTAH GEOL. & MIN. SURV., BULL. 63

  • Deposit

    HILLIER, R. L., 1956 , PRELIMINARY REPORT ON URANIUM OCCURRENCE, SILVER KING CLAIMS, TOOELE CO., UTAH: USAEC, RME-2035 (REVISED), 25 P.

  • Deposit

    BULLOCK, K. C., 1976 , FLUORITE OCCURRENCES IN UTAH: UTAH GEOL & MIN. SURV BULL 110

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit EIGHT MINERALIZED VEINS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1976 Wong, George U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-OCT-1978 Tooker, Ed U.S. Geological Survey

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