Deer Trail Claims

Past Producer in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Manganese, Lead, Silver, Gold, Zinc, Copper
Sections on this page
  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. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Production statistics
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10055184
MRDS ID RE00247
Record type Site
Current site name Deer Trail Claims
Alternate or previous names Black Gap, O'Connor Mine, Monzo 69-72 Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.65525, 39.91688 (WGS84)
Elevation 1820
Relative position IN JUDD CREEK, ABOUT 2600 FEET E-NE OF IRON SPRING

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)

Lower Sevier(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 10S 7W 32 NE OF NW OF NE Utah

Comments on the location information

  • THIS CARD SUPERCEDES RECORD NO. DC15281. LOCATION GIVEN BY CRITTENDEN IS IN ERROR BY ONE MILE, MINE LOCATED NEAR THE SOUTH EDGE OF SECTION 29 RATHER THAN NEAR THE NORTH EDGE ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1977)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary
Lead Secondary
Silver Secondary
Gold Secondary
Zinc Critical Tertiary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result USBM, MINERAL PROPERTY FILE 41.27 LISTS TWO ASSAYS OF VEIN SAMPLES: 24.7% MN, 0.8% ZN, 0.05% AG
Result 22.2% MN, 0.4% ZN, 0.05% AG. CRITTENDEN (1951) STATES THAT ORE MAY ASSAY AS HIGH AS 25% MN, 22% PB AND A FEW DOLLARS PER TON AU. USBM MINERAL PROPERTY FILE 41.27 ALSO CITES EARLIER REPORTS OF ASSAYS OF LEAD-ZINC ORE WITH HIGH GOLD CONTENT FROM THE UPPER ADIT. HOWEVER, NO SUCH ORE WAS NOTED BY USBM PERSONNEL.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Unit 8 Of The Simpson Mountain Sequence, Possibly Correlative With The Big Cottonwood Formation;
    Rock description Unit 8 Of The Simpson Mountain Sequence, Possibly Correlative With The Big Cottonwood Formation;
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.65525, 39.91688

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Sevier Thrust Belt (Sheeprock Thrust Inferred At Shallow Depth), Deep Creek-Tintic District Mineral Belty
Type of structure Local
Structure description Intersection Between Judd Creek Fault (N-Nw) And An E-Ne Fault

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
  • General form TABULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fractures And Breccia Zones

Comments on the geologic information

  • ORE OCCURS IN A MANNER CLOSELY RESEMBLING THAT OF THE BLACK ROCK GROUP: RHODONITE AND RHODOCHROSITE ASSOCIATED WITH GALENA, SPHALERITE AND A LITTLE CHALCOPYRITE, AT DEPTHS OF 50 FT OR LESS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1931
Year of last production 1943

Mining district

District name Erickson District District

Land status

Ownership category State

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner C. A. Elkins Or V. T. Slaughter
    First year 1944
  • Type Owner
    Owner J. T. O'Connor Or Wendell L. Butcher
    First year 1946

Production statistics

  • Year 1943
    Material ORE
    Accuracy Estimate
    Description Ap_Grade: ^26% Mn
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Ore Manganese Manganese 26wt-pct
  • Year 1943
    Period 1931-1943
    Material ORE
    Accuracy Estimate
    Description Cp_Grade: ^25-30% Mn
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Ore Manganese Manganese 28wt-pct

Comments on the production information

  • OVERBURDEN AND CONCENTRATES. 760 TONS FROM 1931,1936 AND 1943

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKING CONSIST OF TWO SHORT ADITS AND ONE PROSPECT PIT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CRITTENDEN, M.D., JR., 1951, MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF UTAH, USGS BULL. 979-A P. 43

  • Deposit

    MORRIS, H.T. AND KOPF, R.W., 1985, PRELIMINARY GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE INDIAN SPRINGS QUADRANGLE AND ADJACENT PART OF THE COYOTE SPRINGS QUADRANGLE, TOOELE AND JUAB COUNTIES, UTAH: UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERALS SURVEY (IN PROGRESS).

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, 1950, MINERAL PROPERTY FILE 41.27

  • Deposit

    CONSV. COMP. DATE 03-28-1958

  • Production

    CRITTENDEN, 1951

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSIT CONSISTS OF MN OXIDES FILLING VEINS AND BRECCIAS. DEPOSIT LOCATED NEAR INTERSECTION BETWEEN AN E-NE STRIKING FAULT AND THE N-NW STRIKING JUDD CREEK FAULT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1978 Wong, George (Tooker, Ed) Utah Geological and Mineral Survey

Beyond USGS

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