Timpie Canyon

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodity Mercury
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040406
MRDS ID M055166
Record type Site
Current site name Timpie Canyon

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Centroid
Geographic coordinates: -113.12587, 40.4502 (WGS84)
Relative position Original record had no coordinates, so this was plotted to the middle of the state/county area.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Wig Mountain NW(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

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite

Nearby scientific data

Centroid (1) -113.12587, 40.4502

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    RIGBY, 1958 P. 124-126 U.S. 88TH CONGR. 2ND SESS. 1964 COMM. INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS. COMM-PRINT 26-976

  • Deposit

    UTAH GEOL. SOC., 1958, GUIDEBOOK TO THE GEOLOGY OF UTAH, NO. 13

  • Deposit

    BAILEY, E.H., USGS, PERSONAL FILES

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit HG ORES IN BRECCIATED DOLOMITE AT HEAD OF TIMPIE CANYON IN THE STANSBURY RANGE. OPERATED IN 1958. ; INFO.SRC : BAILEY E H

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-73 Bergquist, Joel R. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.