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Blue Bell Prospect

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Lead, Copper, Iron, Gold, Fluorine-Fluorite, Beryllium
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10041771
MRDS ID M057539
Record type Site
Current site name Blue Bell Prospect
Related records 10227941

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.26416, 40.07661 (WGS84)
Relative position SOUTH END OF GRANITE PEAK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Granite Peak SE(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

DOD(Federal land areas administered by DOD)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 009S 013W 01 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • DUGWAY PROVING GROUNDS, RESTRICTED AREA. LOCATION UNCERTAIN.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Copper Tertiary
Iron Tertiary
Gold Tertiary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Tertiary
Beryllium Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Hematite Ore
Limonite Ore
Malachite Ore
Amethyst Gangue
Apatite Gangue
Beryl Gangue
Fluorite Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Microcline Gangue
Muscovite Gangue
Zircon Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.26416, 40.07661
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Granite Cut By Pegmatite Dikes And Small Mineralized Fissures

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Granite Peak District

Comments on the workings information

  • SEVERAL SMALL PROSPECT PITS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BULLOCK, K. C., 1976 , FLUORITE OCCURENCES IN UTAH: UTAH GEOL. & MIN. SURV BULL 110 , P. 76

  • Deposit

    FOWKES, E. J., 1964 , PEGMATITES OF GRANITE PEAK MT., TOOELE CO., UTAH: BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIV. GEOL. STUDIES VOL. 11 , P. 109

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1978 Wong, George (Tooker, Ed) U.S. Geological Survey

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