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Welcome Spring Prospects

Occurrence in Washington county in Utah, United States with commodity Copper
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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. 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 10088802
MRDS ID M058758
Record type Site
Current site name Welcome Spring Prospects
Related records 10055114

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.90609, 37.10137 (WGS84)
Elevation 1454
Relative position 1300 FEET N 33 E FROM WELCOME SPRING

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Washington(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Castle Cliff(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Saint George(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Cedar City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Virgin(hydrologic unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(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 Washington

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 042S 018W 30 NE OF NE OF SW Utah

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1975)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • TUNGSTEN IS REPORTED TO BE PRESENT BUT HAS NOT BEEN DOCUMENTED. POSSIBLY ANOMALOUS GOLD

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Malachite Ore
Chlorite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Argillic, Chloritization, Silicification

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Redwall Limestone
    Rock description Redwall Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.90609, 37.10137
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Detachment Fault
Type of structure Local
Structure description Detachment Fault

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Detachment Fault

Comments on the geologic information

  • VERY COARSE GRAINED GRANITE OR SYENITE ASSOCIATED WITH DEPOSIT. MINERALIZATION OCCURS IMMEDIATELY BENEATH A DETACHMENT FAULT SEPARATING GNEISS FROM OVERLYING MISSISSIPPIAN LIMESTONE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Tutsagubet District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF SEVEN PROSPECT PITS AND DOZER CUTS, ONE STEEPLY INCLINED SHAFT, AND ONE COLLAPSED ADIT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSIT IS HOSTED BY SILICIFIED AND CHLORITIZED GNEISS WITH ABUNDANT QUARTZ VEINS AND VEINLETS. ALTERED AND MINERALIZED ROCK IMMEDIATELY UNDERLIES A DETACHMENT FAULT SEPARATING GNEISS AND OVERLYING LIMESTONE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1985 Shubat, Michael A. Utah Geological and Mineral Survey

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