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Wheat Adit, Lower and Upper Level

Occurrence in Grand 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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10078694
MRDS ID W027203
Record type Site
Current site name Wheat Adit, Lower and Upper Level

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.25541, 38.54443 (WGS84)
Elevation 3222
Relative position APPROX. 2.15 MILES NORTH - NORTHEAST OF WARNER LAKE, 1.2 MILES SOUTH - SOUTHEAST OF GRANDVIEW PEAK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Grand(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Warner Lake(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Moab(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Moab(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Colorado-Kane Springs(hydrologic unit)

Upper Colorado-Dolores(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Colorado-Dolores(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Manti-La Sal 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 Grand

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 026S 024E 15 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS: NE 1/4 SW 1/4 NE 1/4 OF SECTION 15

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Pyritic

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.25541, 38.54443
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Mineral Mtn Area, Northern La Sal Mtns

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • RESERVES WEREN'T DETERMINED AS PORTALS ARE CAVED.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 47.24M

Comments on the workings information

  • MINE WORKING CONSIST OF TWO ADITS, BOTH ARE CAVED.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    1958 RECON HUNT, C. B. PROFESSIONAL PAPER # 294-I

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1977 Perry, Lee I. Bureau of Land Management

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

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