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Cannon Tank Canyon Prospect

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Lead, Copper, Fluorine-Fluorite
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10095564
MRDS ID M057540
Record type Site
Current site name Cannon Tank Canyon Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.29555, 40.15827 (WGS84)
Elevation 1469
Relative position APPROX. 1.25 MI. SOUTH OF GPI-2

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Granite Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wildcat Mountain(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(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)

Federal lands

DOD(Federal land areas administered by DOD)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 008S 013W 03 E2 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Tertiary
Copper Tertiary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • GANGUE: AMETHYST, HEMATITE

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Fluorite Ore
Galena Ore
Malachite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Pegmatite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Pegmatite, Aplite;Leucogranite
    Rock description Pegmatite, Aplite;Leucogranite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.29555, 40.15827
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Swarms Of Northeast-Striking Pegmatite Dikes
Type of structure Local
Structure description Numerous Pegmatite And Aplite Dikes

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE LEUCOGRANITE IS GRAY, MEDIUM-GRAINED, AND NEARLY EQUIGRANULAR.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Granite Peak District

Land status

Ownership category Military Reservation

Comments on the production information

  • NO PRODUCTION REPORTED

Comments on the workings information

  • SMALL PITS AND MINOR OPENINGS. FOWKES (1964, P. 109) REPORTED "A FAIRLY LARGE" PROSPECT PIT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BULLOCK, K.C., 1976, FLUORITE OCCURRENCES IN UTAH: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY BULLETIN 110, P. 77.

  • Deposit

    FOWKES, E.J., 1964, PEGMATITES OF GRANITE PEAK MOUNTAIN, TOOELE COUNTY, UTAH: BYU GEOLOGY STUDIES, VOL. 11, P. 97-123.

  • Production

    MESSENGER, H.M. III, 1980, ON-SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURVEY.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1972 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-APR-1981 Messenger, Harold M. III U.S. Geological Survey

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