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Silver King Prospect

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Uranium, Copper, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite, Manganese, Barium-Barite
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10055147
MRDS ID RE00162
Record type Site
Current site name Silver King Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.56637, 39.96716 (WGS84)
Elevation 2030
Relative position NEAR THE HEAD OF SOUTH OAK BRUSH CANYON AND 1/4 TO 1 MILE NW OF THE CANYON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Erickson Knoll(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lynndyl(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Delta(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Sevier(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier 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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 10S 6W 6,7 NE4 OF SE4 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Copper Secondary
Silver Secondary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Secondary
Manganese Critical Secondary
Barium-Barite Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Uraninite Ore
Barite Gangue
Fluorite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Specularite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Swan Peak Quartzite;
    Rock description Swan Peak Quartzite;
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.56637, 39.96716
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range
Type of structure Local
Structure description N25w, 50 Sw Fault Zone Assoc. With The Western Boundary Faults Of The Sheeprock Mountains

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike NW
    Dip SW
    Length 274.32M
    Width 1.83M
    Depth to top 0M
  • General form TABULAR
    Dip SW

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Northwest-Striking, Southwest Dipping Fissures

Comments on the geologic information

  • PEGMATITE AND APLITE DIKES ARE COMMON IN GRANITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Columbia District

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Ixl Uranium Corp.

Comments on the workings information

  • SILVER KING NO. 1 TUNNEL (LOWER ADIT), PORCUPINE ADIT (UPPER ADIT, 225 FT), 65 FT. VERTICAL SHAFT, 30 AND 50 FT. INCLINED SHAFTS, EXTENSIVE BULLDOZER CUTS COMPRISE SOUTHERN WORKINGS; NORTHERN WORKINGS ARE ON THE SILVER LODE CLAIMS AND INCLUDE 2 ADITS AND A SHAFT

Comments on development

  • FOUR DRILL HOLES TOTALING 1062 FT BY THE AEC. SILVER KING NO. 1 TUNNEL WAS LENGTHENED FROM 756 FT TO 1400 FT BY THE OWNERS IN 1967-68. TWO SHALLOW, VERTICAL HOLES WERE DRILLED THEN, ALSO BY THE OWNERS. RECONNAISSANCE FOR BERYLLIUM IN 1949 ALONG WITH GRANITE-METASEDIMENTS CONTACT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit EIGHT FISSURE VEINS, MOSTLY 1-6 IN. IN WIDTH, CARRYING SPECULARITE, EARTHY HEMATITE, MANGANESE OXIDES, CHALCOPYRITE, PYRITE, URANINITE, FLUORITE, AND BARITE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1982 Messenger, Harold M. III Utah Geological and Mineral Survey

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