Desolate Point

Occurrence in Box Elder county in Utah, United States with commodities Copper, Tungsten
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. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10094358
MRDS ID D005381
Record type Site
Current site name Desolate Point
Related records 10130265

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.74168, 41.05298 (WGS84)
Elevation 1341
Relative position 4.5 MILES NW OF DONNER REED PASS

Site location context

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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Box Elder

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 004N 017W 24 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • NW NE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary
Tungsten Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Malachite Ore
Powellite Ore
Scheelite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Hematite Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Limonitization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Rock unit name Crater Island Stock
    Rock description Crater Island Stock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Eureka Quartzite
    Rock description Eureka Quartzite

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR-TABULAR
    Strike N 15 W
    Dip 50 DEG SW
    Thickness 1.52M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Qtz Monzonite,-Quartzite Contact.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Crater Island/Silver Island

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • 50 AND 60 FOOT SHAFTS PLUS SEVERAL SHALLOW DIGGINGS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BUTLER, B.S., 1920, ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH: U.S.G.S. PROF. PAPER III.

  • Deposit

    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.

  • Deposit

    DOELLING, H.H., IN PREPARATION, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF BOX ELDER COUNTY, UTAH: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY BULLETIN.

  • Reserve-Resource

    THIS REVIEW

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1979 Doelling, Hellmut H. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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