| Deposit ID | 10087626 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | D008390 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | North Wash Prospects |
| Geographic coordinates: | -113.83834, 40.15243 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Elevation | 1725 |
| Relative position | ON THE WEST SLOPES OF GOLD HILL WASH |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Tooele(county)
Utah(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Gold Hill(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)
Wildcat Mountain(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)
Tooele(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)
Federal lands
Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management UT)
Bureau of Land Management UT BLM(Type of land area)
BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Utah | Tooele |
| Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salt Lake | 008S | 018W | 02,11 | SE OF SE | Utah |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Copper | Tertiary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Malachite | Ore |
| Pyrite | Ore |
| Hematite | Gangue |
| Jarosite | Gangue |
| Quartz | Gangue |
| Host or associated | Associated | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite | ||||||
| |||||||
| Host or associated | Associated |
|---|---|
| Rock type | Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite |
| Rock unit name | Gold Hill Stock |
| Rock description | Gold Hill Stock |
| Host or associated | Host |
|---|---|
| Rock type | Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone |
| Rock unit name | Oquirrh Formation |
| Rock description | Oquirrh Formation |
| (1) | -113.83834, 40.15243 |
|---|
| Type of structure | Regional |
|---|---|
| Structure description | Basin And Range |
| Type of structure | Local |
| Structure description | Northwest-Striking Faults |
| General form | TABULAR, IRREGULAR |
|---|
| Development status | Occurrence |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Deposit size | Small |
| Significant | No |
| District name | Clifton (Gold Hill) District |
|---|
| Ownership category | State |
|---|
| Type of workings | Underground |
|---|---|
| Length | 36.58M |
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | D008390 |
MESSENGER, H.M. III, 1980, ON-SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY
NOLAN, T.B., 1935, THE GOLD HILL MINING DISTRICT, UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF. PAPER 177.
1935 GEOLMAP NOLAN, T.B., PROF. PAPER 177, P1.
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | WEAK COPPER MINERALIZATION ALONG THE CONTACT OF THE OQUIRRH FM. LIMESTONES WITH SMALL QUARTZ MONZONITE INTRUSIONS (DIKES, SILLS, PLUGS, ETC.) |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 01-OCT-1981 | Messenger, Harold M. III | Bureau of Land Management |
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