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Sunshine

Producer in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodity Gold
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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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  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 10108551
MRDS ID DC12250
Record type Site
Current site name Sunshine
Related records 10130352

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.1958, 40.27188 (WGS84)
Elevation 1829
Relative position SOUTH OF SUNSHINE (TOWN)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mercur(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Rush Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rush-Tooele Valleys(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 006S 003W 29 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ORE RESEMBLES THAT OF MERCUR MINE

Analytical data

Result AVG. $2.81/TON A

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.1958, 40.27188
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Fissures (N 45 W)

Ore body information

  • Strike N 75 E
    Dip 32 E
    Thickness 6.1M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Camp Floyd District (Sunshine)

Comments on the production information

  • 1895-1910 PROD. EST. $221,000 IN AU

Comments on the workings information

  • MINE BADLY CAVED

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: ORE EXHAUSTED IN 1910

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS PROF. PAPER 111, P. 387

  • Deposit

    USGS PROF. PAPER 173, P. 138-139

  • Deposit

    UTAH GEOL. SOC. GUIDEBOOK #14, 1959, P. 220

  • Deposit

    3A) USGS TOPO QUAD, MERCUR, 7.5 MIN., 1968

  • Deposit

    UTAH GEOL & MIN. SURV. SPEC. STUDIES 43 , 1973

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit JUST BELOW THE LONG TRAIL SHALE

Reporter information

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

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