North Pass Area

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Silver, Copper, Iron, 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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10091710
MRDS ID DC15250
Record type Site
Current site name North Pass Area
Alternate or previous names Sunday Group
Related records 10154680

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.86584, 40.03826 (WGS84)
Elevation 2134
Relative position 1/2 MI NW OF ABERCROMBIE PEAK IN BAGLEY GULCH

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Clifton(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 009S 018W 15,09,10 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • CLAIMS: SILVER DICK LODE, BURRO LODE, NATIVE SILVER LODE, SUNDAY GROUP CONSIST OF 16 CLAIMS IN BAGLEY GULCH.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Copper Tertiary
Iron Tertiary
Lead Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Jarosite Ore
Limonite Ore
Malachite Ore
Siderite Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore

Analytical data

Result 10 OZ/TON AG

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.86584, 40.03826

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description North Pass Left Lateral Fault

Ore body information

  • Strike N 70 - 75 W
    Dip 85 - 90 NE
    Width 1.07M

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: ABERCROMBIE FM CONSIST OF LIMESTONE WITH INTERBEDDED SANDSTONE AND SHALE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Willow Springs District

Comments on the workings information

  • IN BAGLEY GULCH - TWO SHAFTS, ONE ADIT, TWO PROSPECT PITS. IN NORTH PASS CANYON - ONE PROSPECT PIT AND A SHAFT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NOLAN,T.B., 1935, THE GOLD HILL MINING DISTRICT: USGS PROF. PAPER 177

  • Deposit

    THOMSON, K. C., 1973 , MINERAL DEP OF DEEP CK MTNS, TOOELE & JUAB CO., UTAH: UTAH GEOL & MINER SURV BULL 99 , P. 29 - 30

  • Deposit

    CONSV. COMP. DATE, 03-30-1955

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1975 Mc Coy, Gail U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1978 Wong, George (Tooker, Ed) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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