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Hilltop Mine

Past Producer in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Silver, Lead
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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. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10055161
MRDS ID RE00193
Record type Site
Current site name Hilltop Mine
Alternate or previous names Silver Hill Top 1-5 Claims
Related records 10055178, 10108893

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.5208, 39.9755 (WGS84)
Elevation 2627
Relative position ON THE CREST OF THE SHEEPROCK MTNS. APPROX. 1600 FT NORTH OF USLM 2

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 9 NW4 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Lead Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Plumbojarosite Ore
Quartz Gangue
Specularite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Sheeprock Series Of Cohenour (1959);
    Rock description Sheeprock Series Of Cohenour (1959);
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.5208, 39.9755
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range
Type of structure Local
Structure description N85e, 40n Fault At Adit Portal

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
  • General form TABULAR

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Columbia District District

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Henry Crossman, Oliver J. Nowell

Comments on the production information

  • LIMITED PRODUCTION OF OXIDIZED LEAD ARE REPORTED IN 1926, 1928

Comments on the workings information

  • TWO CAVED ADITS, ASSOCIATED PITS, AND A 300 FT. LONG INCLINED SHAFT WITH ASSOCIATED BULLDOZER CUTS

Comments on development

  • MORE EXTENSIVE DEVELOPMENT WORK THAN THE CAVED, INACCESSIBLE ADITS INDICATE. USGS MIN. RES. OF U.S. CITES 300 FT OF DEV. WORK IN 1926, 1000 FT IN 1928, AND 18000 DOLLARS SPENT IN 1927 ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TRAMWAY. A CONCENTRATION PLANT WAS ERECTED IN 1928

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    COHENOUR, R.E., 1959, SHEEPROCK MOUNTAINS, TOOELE AND JUAB COUNTIES: UGMS BULL. 63

  • Deposit

    MESSENGER, H.M.III, 1981, ON-SITE INVESTIGATION: UGMS

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, 1982, UNPATENTED MINING CLAIM FILE 174132, UTAH STATE OFFICE, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH

  • Deposit

    U.S.G.S. MIN. RES. OF U.S., 1926, 1927, 1928

  • Production

    USGS MIN. RES. OF U.S., 1926, 1928

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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