Incomparable No. 1 and 2 Claims

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Arsenic, Gold, Silver, Lead
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. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10087628
MRDS ID D008401
Record type Site
Current site name Incomparable No. 1 and 2 Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.78445, 40.15437 (WGS84)
Elevation 1634
Relative position APPROX. 6200 FT. S74E OF THE SUMMIT OF GOLD HILL

Site location context

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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 008S 017W 05 S2 OF SE4 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • APPROX. 2900 FT. S23W OF BM S148

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Arsenic Critical Primary
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Lead Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Plumbojarosite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Jarosite Gangue
Limonite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Gold Hill Stock
    Rock description Gold Hill Stock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.78445, 40.15437

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike NW
    Dip SW
    Length 54.86M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fissure Vein

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Clifton (Gold Hill) District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF AT LEAST 4 SHALLOW DECLINES OR SHAFTS, 10-30 FT DEEP.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit FISSURE TWISTS IN HOST SO THAT STRIKE AND DIP VARIES CONSIDERABLY

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1981 Messenger, Harold M. III Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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