Cherikino Bar

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10095565
MRDS ID M057550
Record type Site
Current site name Cherikino Bar

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.14858, 40.52383 (WGS84)
Elevation 1958
Relative position CENTER OF THE OPEN PIT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Salt Lake(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bingham Canyon(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 26 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • THE BAR IS COMPLETELY DUG UP BY THE OPEN PIT.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Sand and Gravel
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.14858, 40.52383

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 76.2M
    Length 457.2M
    Width 152.4M

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

  • A TUNNEL IS AT THE BASE OF THE GRAVELS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THIS AREA CONTAIN SEVERAL THIN PHOSPHATIC LAYERS
Deposit DIMENSIONS ARE OF A GRAVEL DEPOSIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1978 Wong, George (Tooker, Ed) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.