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Utah Prospect

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Copper, Fluorine-Fluorite, Manganese
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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. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10095903
MRDS ID RE00198
Record type Site
Current site name Utah Prospect
Alternate or previous names White Rat Prospect, Sheeprock Fluorite Claims
Related records 10203141

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.51108, 39.91133 (WGS84)
Elevation 1875
Relative position 5450 FT N85E OF THE EKKER RANCH

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Erickson Knoll(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lynndyl(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Delta(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Sevier(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier 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 10S 6W 34 SW OF SE OF NW Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Secondary
Manganese Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Fluorite Ore
Malachite Ore
Quartz Gangue
Specularite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.51108, 39.91133
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range
Type of structure Local
Structure description South Flank Fault Of Sheeprock Mountains Striking N45w

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR, LENTICULAR
    Strike N30W
    Dip 50 SW
  • General form TABULAR, LENTICULAR
    Dip 50 SW

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Nw-Striking Joints And Faults

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Columbia District

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner White Rat Mining Co.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Ann Alloway, Marjorie Black

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFT, UNDETERMINED DEPTH

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LOUGHLIN, G.F., 1920, IN BUTLER, B.S., AND OTHERS, ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH: U.S.G.S. PROF. PAPER, P. 427-428

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1982 Messenger, Harold M. III Utah Geological and Mineral Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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