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Rising Sun Prospect

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Gold, Copper, Arsenic
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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. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10041924
MRDS ID M057972
Record type Site
Current site name Rising Sun Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.79223, 40.08743 (WGS84)
Elevation 1804
Relative position 6000 FT S 82 E 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 32 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SE SW OF NW

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Tertiary
Copper Tertiary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Malachite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Quartz Gangue

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) -113.79223, 40.08743
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Depth to top 0M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Clifton District

Land status

Ownership category State

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 47.24M

Comments on the workings information

  • 2 ADITS AND SEVERAL PITS AND CUTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    1935 GEOLMAP NOLAN, PROF. PAPER 17

  • Production

    DOELLING, H.H., 1981, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURVEY

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SEVERAL FISSURES.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1981 Doelling, Hellmut H. U.S. Geological Survey

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