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Skull Valley Indian Reservation Prospects

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodity Iron
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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. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10041775
MRDS ID M057548
Record type Site
Current site name Skull Valley Indian Reservation Prospects

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.64248, 40.45522 (WGS84)
Relative position LESS THAN ONE MI N OF THE MOUTH OF HICKMAN CANYON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Deseret Peak West(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Rush Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Skull Valley(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Deseret Peak Wilderness(Wilderness)

Wilderness FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
004S 007W 21 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION UNCERTAIN

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Goethite Ore
Hematite Ore
Limonite Ore

Analytical data

Result CHEMICAL ANALYSIS: 46.4 % FE, 29.8 % SILICA, 0.5 % S, 0.09 % P, 0.01 % MN

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.64248, 40.45522
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form SCATTERED

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Stanbury Fault

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Third Term District

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • LESS THAN A FEW THOUSAND TONS

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: HIGH SILICA, LOW GRADE ORE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BULLOCK, K. C., 1970 , IRON DEP. OF UTAH: UTAH GEOL & MIN. SURV BULL 88 , P. 77

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ALONG STANSBURY FAULT

Reporter information

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

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