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Cyclone Mine

Past Producer in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, Gold, Copper, Zinc, Arsenic
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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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Ownership information
  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 10102142
MRDS ID DC15246
Record type Site
Current site name Cyclone Mine
Related records 10203148

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.82195, 40.07271 (WGS84)
Elevation 1841
Relative position ON BARNEY REEVEY GULCH

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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 009S 018W 01 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SIX CLAIMS

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Gold Secondary
Copper Secondary
Zinc Critical Secondary
Arsenic Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcanthite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Jarosite Ore
Plumbojarosite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Limonite Unknown
Pyrite Unknown

Alteration

  • (Local) Granite Porphyry Adjacent To The Vein Has Been Considerably Altered, Fspr To Clay, Groundmass To A Fine-Grain Aggregate Of Qtz And A Little Sericite. Oxidation To Depth Of 45 Ft

Analytical data

Result AVG. 0.03 OZ/TON AU, 6 OZ/TON AG 0.4 - 8.2 % PB, 0.5 - 1.7 % CU, 0.5 - 3.8 % ZN, 0.5 - 7.3 % AS FROM NOLAN, T.B., 1935 . ANALYSIS BY THOMSON, K. C., 1973 - TRACE - 0.03 OZ/TON AU, TRACE TO 10.0 OZ/TON AG

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Eocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.82195, 40.07271
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form DISCONTINUOUS
    Strike N 3 E
    Dip 50 W
    Thickness 0.91M
    Length 18.29M
    Width 1.22M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Ore Mineral Follows The Hanging Wall Of The Dike.

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: QTZ MONZ CUT BY A GRANITE PORPHYRY DIKE (LIGHT GREENISH-GRAY ROCK CONTAINING QTZ PHENOCRYST, BIOTITE, ORTHOCLASE, ALBITE.) STRIKING N 15 E, DIPPING 55 W

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Clifton (Gold Hill) District

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Hilda And Danene Probert

Comments on the production information

  • PROD 1926

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 121.92M

Comments on the workings information

  • AN INCLINE SHAFT, 400 FT OF DRIFT, RAISES

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: FINE-GRAIN, INTERMIXED SULFIDES

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NOLAN,T.B., 1935, THE GOLD HILL MINING DISTRICT: USGS PROF. PAPER 177, P. 144.

  • Deposit

    THOMSON, K. C., 1973 , MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE DEEP CK MTNS, TOOELE & JUAB CO., UTAH: UTAH GEOL & MINER. SURV BULL 99 , P. 25

  • Deposit

    PERRY,L.I. & MCCARTHY,B.M., 1977, LEAD AND ZINC IN UTAH: UTAH GEOL. & MIN. SURV., ECON. GEOL. SECT., OPEN-FILE REPT. NO. 22, P. 412.

  • Deposit

    CONSV. COMP. DATE, 03-29-1955

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VEINS STRIKING N-S CONTAINS GOUGE, VEINS STRIKING EAST OF NORTH CONTAINS QTZ AND SULFIDES. DRIFT FROM INCLINE SHAFT DISCLOSED FIVE ORE SHOOTS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1975 Mc Coy, Gail U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1978 Wong, George (Tooker, Ed) U.S. Geological Survey

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