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Last Hope Prospect No. 3

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Lead, Copper
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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. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10094841
MRDS ID DC15217
Record type Site
Current site name Last Hope Prospect No. 3

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.74387, 39.91438 (WGS84)
Elevation 1981
Relative position EAST OF SIX-MILE SPRING

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Indian Springs(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lynndyl(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Delta(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 010S 008W 33 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Copper Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • SOME CHALCOPYRITE CRYSTALS ARE TWO INCH IN DIAMETER.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Wall Rk Highly Decomposed

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.74387, 39.91438
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Thickness 1.83M
    Length 3.05M
    Width 0.91M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Erickson District

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BUTLER,B.S. AND OTHERS, 1920, ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH: USGS PROF. PAPER 111, P. 456.

  • Deposit

    HEYL,A.V., 1963, OXIDIZED ZINC DEPOSITS OF THE U.S.: USGS BULL. 1135-B, P. 54.

  • Deposit

    CONSV. COMP. DATE, 03-21-1958

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DIMENSIONS ARE OF LENS - SHAPED BODY OF A COARSE GRAIN GALENA BODY

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1976 Wong, George U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-OCT-1978 Tooker, Ed U.S. Geological Survey

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