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Blue Jay No. 1 Prospect

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
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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. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10055168
MRDS ID RE00204
Record type Site
Current site name Blue Jay No. 1 Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.73581, 39.93827 (WGS84)
Elevation 2237
Relative position 6400 FT S 30 W OF LION PEAK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Indian Springs(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lynndyl(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Delta(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 10S 8W 22 NW OF NE OF SW Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Ore
Hematite Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.73581, 39.93827
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
  • General form TABULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fracture

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Erickson District District

Comments on the workings information

  • THE PRINCIPAL WORKINGS INCLUDING APPROX. 200 FT. OF DRIFT. WERE NEVER LOCATED IN THE FIELD. ORGINAL PORTAL IS PROBABLY TOTALLY CAVED AND OVERGROWN. NO DISCERNIBLE DUMP WAS EVIDENT. A 10 FT LONG, 29 DEGREE INCLINED PIT IS NORTH OF THE ADIT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, 1982, MINERAL SURVEY NO. 6207, UTAH STATE OFFICE, SALT LAKE CITY, UT

  • Deposit

    MESSENGER, H.M. 3, 1982, ON-SITE INVESTIGATION: UGMS

  • Deposit

    THOMAS, G.H., 1958, THE GEOLOGY OF INDIAN SPRINGS QUADRANGLE, TOOELE AND JUAB COUNTIES: UNPUB. M.S. THESIS, BYU.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit PYRITE-QUARTZ STRINGERS VEINS IN QUARTZITE

Reporter information

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

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