Halladay Mercury Property

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. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040408
MRDS ID M055170
Record type Site
Current site name Halladay Mercury Property

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.5997, 40.66687 (WGS84)
Elevation 1878
Relative position AT THE END OF A ROAD IN THE HEAD OF TIMPIE CANYON.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Flux(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rush-Tooele Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 002S 007W 02,11 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Jasperization

Analytical data

Result 0.03 PERCENT BEO FROM GRAB SAMPLE OF DUMP MATERIAL.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Upper Gardner Dolomite;Pine Canyon Limestone
    Rock description Upper Gardner Dolomite;Pine Canyon Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.5997, 40.66687

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Deseret Anticline
Type of structure Local
Structure description North-Trending Anticline, Broad Canyon Reverse Fault, Unconformity Between Cambrian Units And Gardner Dolomite.

Ore body information

  • General form STRINGERS
    Dip 90
    Length 182.88M
    Width 3.05M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Northwest-Trending Fault Zones May Have Been The Feeder Zones; The Controlling Fault Strikes North And Dips Steeply To The East.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1957

Mining district

District name Timpie Canyon (Free Coinage)

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner R. S. Halladay

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, 1963, MINERAL PROPERTY FILE 8.31.

  • Deposit

    BAILEY, E.H., PERSONAL FILES, USGS

  • Deposit

    MESSENGER, H.M. III, 1980, ON-SITE INVESTIGATION,: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY.

  • Deposit

    RIGBY, J.K., 1958, GEOLOGY OF THE STANSBURY MOUNTAINS: GUIDEBOOK TO THE GEOLOGY OF UTAH, NO. 13

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, 1963, MINERAL PROPERTY FILE 8..31: UNPUBLISHED OPEN-FILE REPORT, DENVER, COLORADO

  • Deposit

    1961 RECON USBM-FURTHER WORK RECOMMENDED

  • Deposit

    1963 RECON USBM-INVESTIGATION CONCLUDED

  • Production

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, 1963, MINERAL PROPERTY FILE 8.31, DENVER, COLORADO

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1974 Bergquist, Joel R. Bureau of Land Management
Updater 01-MAR-1981 Messenger, Harold M. III U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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