| Deposit ID | 10094358 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | D005381 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Desolate Point |
| Related records | 10130265 |
| Geographic coordinates: | -113.74168, 41.05298 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Elevation | 1341 |
| Relative position | 4.5 MILES NW OF DONNER REED PASS |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Box Elder(county)
Utah(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Crater Island East(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)
Newfoundland Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)
Brigham City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)
Hydrologic units (watersheds)
Northern 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)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Utah | Box Elder |
| Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salt Lake | 004N | 017W | 24 | Utah |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Copper | Tertiary |
| Tungsten Critical | Tertiary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Malachite | Ore |
| Powellite | Ore |
| Scheelite | Ore |
| Calcite | Gangue |
| Hematite | Gangue |
| Limonite | Gangue |
| Quartz | Gangue |
| Host or associated | Associated | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite | ||||||||
| Rock unit name | Crater Island Stock | ||||||||
| Rock description | Crater Island Stock | ||||||||
| |||||||||
| Host or associated | Host |
|---|---|
| Rock type | Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite |
| Rock unit name | Eureka Quartzite |
| Rock description | Eureka Quartzite |
| (1) | Granitic rocks (140 my) in House Range and near Wendover |
|---|
| General form | IRREGULAR-TABULAR |
|---|---|
| Strike | N 15 W |
| Dip | 50 DEG SW |
| Thickness | 1.52M |
| Depth to top | 0M |
| Development status | Occurrence |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Deposit size | Small |
| Significant | No |
| District name | Crater Island/Silver Island |
|---|
| Ownership category | BLM Administrative Area |
|---|
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | D005381 |
BUTLER, B.S., 1920, ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH: U.S.G.S. PROF. PAPER III.
SCHAEFFER, F.E., AND ANDERSON, W.L., 1960, GEOLOGY OF THE SILVER ISLAND MOUNTAINS BOX ELDER AND TOOELE COUNTIES AND ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA: UTAH GEOLOGICAL BULL. 15.
DOELLING, H.H., IN PREPARATION, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF BOX ELDER COUNTY, UTAH: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY BULLETIN.
THIS REVIEW
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 01-APR-1979 | Doelling, Hellmut H. | Bureau of Land Management |
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