January Claim

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodity Barium-Barite
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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10087638
MRDS ID D008427
Record type Site
Current site name January Claim
Alternate or previous names January Claim Patented of the Monster Mining Company

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.84891, 40.24271 (WGS84)
Elevation 1609
Relative position 3500 FT. S75W OF WILSON 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)

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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 007S 018W 02 SW Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Barium-Barite Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Clifton (Gold Hill) District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 92.35M
    Overall depth 6.1M

Comments on the workings information

  • A MAMOR 283 FT. LONG ADIT WITH AN ASSOCIATED 38 FT. LONG UPPER ADIT, A 20 FT. LONG ADIT, A 20 FT. DEEP VERTICAL SHAFT, AND NUMEROUS PITS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

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.