Copper Hill Deposit Prospect

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Copper, Lead, Gold, Arsenic
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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10088442
MRDS ID DC12281
Record type Site
Current site name Copper Hill Deposit Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.86363, 40.16187 (WGS84)
Elevation 1737
Relative position ON THE FLANKS OF A HILL ON THE SOUTH EDGE OF LITTIE VALLEY.

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 34 S2 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Lead Primary
Gold Secondary
Arsenic Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chrysocolla Ore
Galena Ore
Malachite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Garnet Gangue
Jarosite Gangue
Limonite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silication Garnetization Of Limestone

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Gold Hill Stock
    Rock description Gold Hill Stock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Oligocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Oquirrh Formation;Manning Canyon Formation
    Rock description Oquirrh Formation;Manning Canyon Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.86363, 40.16187

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range
Type of structure Local
Structure description Northwest-Striking Faults That Have Controlled Some Of The Quartz Monzonite Dikes

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR, TABULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Limestone-Quartz Monzonite Contact

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 BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • 2 INCLINED SHAFTS: WESTERN, 30 FT. DEEP, 60 DEGREES NE; EASTERN, 45 FT. DEEP, 48 DEGREES MANY ASSOCIATED PITS, TRENCHES, AND BULLDOZER CUTS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE MINERALIZATION OCCURS ALONG AN IRREGULAR QUARTZ MONZONITE-LIMESTONE CONTACT, IN NORTHEAST-STRIKING BEDDING REP L. TACTITE ZONES AND IN NORTHEAST AND NORTHWEST-STRIKING FRACTURES.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1981 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAR-1994 Messenger, Harold M. III U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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