Indian Chief Prospect

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Lead, Silver
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. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10088987
MRDS ID RE00203
Record type Site
Current site name Indian Chief Prospect
Alternate or previous names Yellow Jacket Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.74025, 39.99161 (WGS84)
Elevation 2036

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Indian Springs(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lynndyl(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Delta(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 9S 8N 34 SE OF SE OF NW Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Hematite Gangue
Limonite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.74025, 39.99161

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR, LENTICULAR
  • General form TABULAR, LENTICULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • N 70 W, 65 Ne Fault

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE GALENA IS IN FINE-GRAINED, BLACK, SOOTY STRINGERS WITH WHITE TO GRAY BORDERS OF CERUSSITE IN A SILICEOUS HEMATITE-LIMONITE GANGUE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Erickson District District

Comments on the production information

  • NO RECORDED PRODUCTION.

Comments on the workings information

  • FIVE SHAFTS, THREE STEEPLY INCLINED, WITH AN APPROX. AREA OF 110 FT. (NW-SE) BY 60 FT. (NE-SE). MOST OF THE SHAFTS ARE SHALLOW (15-30 FT.); THE PRINCIPAL, 70 N INCLINE SHAFT MAY BE 100 FT. DEEP.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, 1982, MINERAL SURVEY 6268, UTAH STATE OFFICE, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH

  • Deposit

    LOUGHLIN, G.F., 1920, IN BUTLER, B.S., AND OTHERS, ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF. PAPER 111, P. 455-456.

  • Deposit

    MESSENGER, H.M., 1982, ON-SITE INVESTIGATION: UGMS

  • Deposit

    THOMAS, G.H., 1958, THE GEOLOGY OF THE INDISN SPRINGS QUADRANGLE, TOOELE AND JUAB COUNTIES, UTAH: UNPUB. BYU THESIS, PROVO, UTAH.

  • Production

    LOUGHLIN, G.F., 1920, P. 456

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SMALL SHOOTS OF CERUSSITE-GALENA ORE CLOSE TO THE SURFACE. PITS EAST AND SOUTHEAST OF THE SHAFTS SHOWED NO OBVIOUS MINERALIZATION.
Deposit THE PROSPECT PITS EAST AND SOUTHEAST OF THE SHAFT ARE VERY INCONSPICUOUS; ALMOST NO OXIDES ARE PRESENT ON THE DUMP, GIVING THEM THE SAME COLOR AS THE COUNTRY ROCK. LIMONITE AND HEMATITE ARE ABUNDANT AT THE SHAFT.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1978 Messenger, Harold M. III Utah Geological and Mineral Survey

Beyond USGS

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