Wilson Consolidated Mine

Past Producer in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Gold, Bismuth, Tungsten, Copper, Lead
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. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10098475
MRDS ID M057072
Record type Site
Current site name Wilson Consolidated Mine
Related records 10276929

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.8364, 40.11243 (WGS84)
Elevation 1899
Relative position 8750 FEET NORTH 80 EAST OF SKINNER SPRING

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 008S 018W 23 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • NW SE OF SE 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Bismuth Critical Primary
Tungsten Critical Primary
Copper Tertiary
Lead Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Bismuthinite Ore
Bismutite Ore
Gold Ore
Jarosite Ore
Malachite Ore
Scheelite Ore
Stolzite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Diopside Gangue
Orthoclase Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Bleaching, Argillitization, Chloritization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Volcanic Breccia (Agglomerate)
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.8364, 40.11243

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range
Type of structure Local
Structure description North-South Normal Faults

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N15E
    Dip 40NW
    Thickness 1.83M
    Length 42.67M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Favorable Coarsely Crystalline Bleached Limestone Beds

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1914

Mining district

District name Clifton District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Floyd Meyers

Comments on the production information

  • SEVERAL SMALL SHIPMENTS OF HIGH GRADE ORE IN 1914 AND 1917; ONE SHIPMENT OF 4.33 TONS OF CONCENTRATES CONTAINED 12.43 PERCENT BI AND $9/TON IN GOLD; LESS THAN 150 UNITS WO3 RECOVERED

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 152.4M

Comments on the workings information

  • VERTICAL RANGE OF WORKINGS IS 75 FT. 5 SHAFTS TO SURFACE, SOME PITS AND A SECOND 45 FT ADIT TO EAST. CROSSCUTS AND SHALLOW WINZES OR INCLINED SHAFTS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BUTLER, B.S., 1920, THE ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH: USGS PP. 111

  • Deposit

    NOLAN, T.B., 1935, THE GOLD HILL MINING DISTRICT, UTAH: USGS, PP. 177

  • Deposit

    THOMSON, K.C., 1973, MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE DEEP CREEK MTN. TOOELE AND JUAB CO., UTAH: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURVEY, BULL. 99

  • Deposit

    EVERETT, F.D., 1961, TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS IN UTAH: BUREAU OF MINES INFORMATION CIRCULAR 8014

  • Deposit

    1920 RECON B.S. BUTLER, PROF. PAPER 111, P. 482

  • Deposit

    1935 GEOLMAP T.B. NOLAN, PROF. PAPER 177, P. 138-140

  • Deposit

    1961 RECON U.S. BUREAU OF MINES IC 8014

  • Production

    NOLAN, T.B., 1935; EVERETT, F.D., 1961

  • Reserve-Resource

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

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1981 Unknown U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-OCT-1991 Doelling, Hellmut H. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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