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Badger

Occurrence in Salt Lake county in Utah, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, Gold
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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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10094827
MRDS ID DC14242
Record type Site
Current site name Badger
Related records 10155442

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.12302, 40.51244 (WGS84)
Elevation 1951
Relative position IN YOSEMITE GULCH

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Salt Lake(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Copperton(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Jordan(hydrologic unit)

Jordan(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Salt Lake

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 003S 003W 36 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Tertiary
Silver Tertiary
Gold Tertiary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Latite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pennsylvanian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form FISSURE ALONG CONTACT OF QUARTZITE AND OVERLYING CHERT

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Bingham District

Comments on the workings information

  • 220 FT OF WORKINGS BY 1885

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS PROF. PAPER 38. P. 323

  • Deposit

    HUNTLEY, DB, 1885 : MINING INDUSTRY OF UTAH: TENTH CENSUS US, V. 13 P. 422

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 03-26-1958

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit PROSPECT

Reporter information

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

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