Proberts Property East Prospect

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Gold, Copper, Arsenic
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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10095596
MRDS ID M057976
Record type Site
Current site name Proberts Property East Prospect
Alternate or previous names East Hopkins Gulch.

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.81084, 40.06937 (WGS84)
Elevation 1817
Relative position 7250 FEET SOUTH 5 EAST OF MONTEZUMA PEAK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Clifton(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

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management UT)

Bureau of Land Management UT BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 009S 017W 06 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SE NW OF SW

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Tertiary
Copper Tertiary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Conichalcite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Limonitization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Mississippian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.81084, 40.06937

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR TO IRREGULAR
    Strike N 57 W
    Dip 47 NE
    Thickness 3.05M
    Depth to top 0M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Clifton District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 13.72M

Comments on the workings information

  • 6 PITS AND CUTS; 6 X 7 X 4 FT DEEP, 40 X 20 X 5 FT DEEP, 20 X 10 X 5 FT DEEP, 10 X 5 X 6 FT DEEP, 6 X 3 X 3 FT DEEP AND 20 X 35 X 10 FT DEEP. ONE ADIT 45 FT LONG

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    THOMSON, K.C., 1973, MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE DEEP CREEK MOUNTAINS, TOOELE AND JUAB COS, UTAH: UT. GEOL. SURV. BULL. 99 P. 28

  • Deposit

    1935 GEOLMAP NOLAN, PROF. PAPER 177

  • Deposit

    1973 RECON UNIV. OF UTAH PHD DISS., UTAH GEOL. SURV. BULL. 99

  • Production

    DOELLING, H.H., 1981, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURVEY

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit FISSURES IN BOTH SEDIMENTARY AND IGNEOUS ROCKS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1981 Messenger, Harold M. III Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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