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Consolidated Lela Prospect

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodity Iron
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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. Ownership information
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10094815
MRDS ID DC12136
Record type Site
Current site name Consolidated Lela Prospect
Related records 10203135

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.67914, 40.50022 (WGS84)
Elevation 1890
Relative position APPROX. 3.64 MI. N83E OF THE DESERET RANCH

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Salt Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Skull Valley(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 004S 007W 06 N2 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • POINT LOCATION GIVEN IS A REPRESENTATIVE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • GOETHITE AND LIMONITE ARE HARD AND SPONGY; HEMATITE, IS EARTHY.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Goethite Ore
Hematite Ore
Limonite Ore
Magnetite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Ophir Group;Pioche Shale
    Rock description Ophir Group;Pioche Shale

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.67914, 40.50022
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Deseret Anticline

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Western Boundary Fault, Stansbury

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1937

Mining district

District name Free Coinage

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Conie Hoopiiana

Comments on the production information

  • NO RECORDED PRODUCTION.

Comments on the workings information

  • TWO ADITS, A 26 FT. DEEP SHAFT, AND SEVEN PITS COMPRISE THE WORKINGS.

Comments on development

  • THE U.S. BUREAU OF MINES FIELD WORK (1980) WAS PART OF A MINERAL RESOURCES EVALUATION OF A RARE II AREA (04-757) IN THE STANSBURY MTNS. SECTION (GRANTSVILLE DIV.) OF THE WAS ATCH NATIONAL FOREST.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ALMQUIST, CARL, AND KNESS, RICHARD, 1980, ON-SITE INVESTIGATION, U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, DENVER, COLORADO.

  • Deposit

    BULLOCK, K.C., 1970, IRON DEPOSITS OF UTAH: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY BULLETIN 88, P. 77.

  • Deposit

    BULLOCK, K.C., 1976, ON-SITE INVESTIGATION, UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY.

  • Deposit

    RIGBY, J.K., 1958, GEOLOGY OF THE STANSBURY MOUNTAINS, TOOELE CO., UTAH: GUIDEBOOK TO THE GEOLOGY OF UTAH, NO. 13, UTAH GEOL. SOCIETY.

  • Deposit

    1976 RECON UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY

  • Deposit

    1980 RECON USBM-DENVER, COLORADO

  • Production

    BULLOCK, K.C., 1970, IRON ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH: UGMS BULL. 88, P. 77.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1979 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAR-1980 Messenger, Harold M. III U.S. Geological Survey

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