Red Jacket Mine

Past Producer in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Lead, Silver
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. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10041738
MRDS ID M057056
Record type Site
Current site name Red Jacket Mine
Related records 10251988

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.81056, 40.10076 (WGS84)
Elevation 1996
Relative position 4200 FEET NORTH 10 EAST 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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 008S 017W 30 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • NE OF NW SW N OF SOUTHERN CONFEDERATE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Anglesite Ore
Galena Ore
Mimetite Ore
Plumbojarosite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Wulfenite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation

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) -113.81056, 40.10076

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range
Type of structure Local
Structure description E Dipping Fault Reported To Have Limited Ore

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N45E
    Dip 80S
    Length 30M
    Width 1.22M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Clifton District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner R. S. Johnson

Comments on the production information

  • IN 1926 PB AG ORE SHIPPED.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 152.4M
    Overall depth 54.86M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NOLAN, T.B., 1935, THE GOLD HILL MINING DISTRICT, UTAH, USGS PP 177, P. 148

  • Deposit

    USBM, 1976, MINERALS AVAILABILITY SYSTEMS REPORT

  • Deposit

    1935 GEOLMAP NOLAN, PROF. PAPERS 177

  • Deposit

    1973 RECON UNIV. OF UTAH. PHD. DISS., UTAH GEOL.SURV. BULL. 99

  • Production

    NOLAN, T.B., 1935, THE GOLD HILL MINING DISTRICT UTAH,: USGS PP 177, P. 148

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1981 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-NOV-1993 Messenger, Harold M. III U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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