Copper Cup Claim

Past Producer in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Tungsten, Copper
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. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10041763
MRDS ID M057527
Record type Site
Current site name Copper Cup Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.84807, 40.19826 (WGS84)
Elevation 1780
Relative position 5500 FT. S70E OF WOODMAN PEAK (7260 FT)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gold Hill(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 007S 018W 23 NW OF NW OF SW Utah

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATED IN POOL CANYON

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Malachite Ore
Scheelite Ore
Hematite Gangue
Limonite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Bleaching And Recrystallization Of Ls.

Analytical data

Result A SMALL TONNAGE OF TUNGSTEN ARE AVERAGED 1.0 PERCENT TUNGSTEN TRIOXIDE.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Gold Hill Stock
    Rock description Gold Hill Stock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.84807, 40.19826

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR, IRREGULAR
    Strike N86E
    Dip 40SE
    Width 1.52M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • N86e, 40se Breccia Zone, Bedding Plane Fractures, Limestone-Quartz Monzonite Contact

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Clifton (Gold Hill) District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Asarco (American Smelting And Refining Co.)
  • Type Owner
    Owner Eugene Timm

Comments on the production information

  • A SMALL TONNAGE OF TUNGSTEN ORE AVERAGING APPROX. 1.0 PERCENT TUNGSTEN TRIOXIDE WAS PRODUCED FROM A SHALLOW SURFACCE PIT ON THE COPPER CUP CLAIM.

Comments on the workings information

  • AN INCLINED (AT 35 DEGREES) SHAFT, A VERTICAL SHAFT WITH AN ADJACENT PIT, A 10 FT. X 10 FT. X 5 FT. DEEP PIT 400 TO 500 FT. SOUTH OF THE INCLINED SHAFT, AND A 20 FT. LONG OPENCUT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: EVERETT, F.D., 1961, P. 27

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    NOLAN T.B. 1935 THE GOLD HILL MINING DISTRICT UTAH: USGS PROFESSIONAL PAPER NO. 177

  • Deposit

    EVERETT, F.D. 1961, TUNGSTEN DEP. IN UTAH: USBM INF CIRCULAR 8014 P. 27

  • Deposit

    1935 GEOLMAP NOLAN, T.B., PROF. PAPER 177, PL.

  • Production

    EVERETT, F.D., 1961, USBM INF. CIRC. 8014, P. 27

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE STRIKE, DIP, AND WIDTH GIVEN ARE FOR THE BRECCIA ZONE AT THE VERTICAL SHAFT. THE TUNGSTEN MINERALIZATION IS PROBABLY CLOSER TO THE QUARTZ MONZONITE CONTACT; THE PIT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE TUNGSTEN PRODUCTION WAS NOT LOCATED WITH ANY CERTAINTY.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1979 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-NOV-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.

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

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