Sultana

Producer in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Lead, Silver
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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10108893
MRDS ID DC15264
Record type Site
Current site name Sultana
Related records 10055161, 10055178

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.5208, 39.9755 (WGS84)
Elevation 2484
Relative position HEAD OF NORTH OAK BRUSH CANYON

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

Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 010S 006W 04 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Limonite Ore
Pyrite Ore

Analytical data

Result 1912 : 60 CENTS/TON AU, 5 OZ/TON AG, 48 % PB, 28 % FE.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Slate
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Till

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.5208, 39.9755

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 1.22M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Columbia District

Comments on the production information

  • PROD 1916; 1946 100 TONS MINED IN 1914

Comments on the workings information

  • THREE ADITS TOTAL GT 400 FT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BUTLER,B.S. AND OTHERS, 1920, ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH: USGS PROF. PAPER 111, P. 429.

  • Deposit

    USGS MIN. RES. 1916; 1946

  • Deposit

    COHENOUR,R.E., 1959, SHEEPROCK MTNS.: UTAH GEOL. & MIN. SURV., BULL. 63, P. 115.

  • Deposit

    CONSV. COMP. DATE, 02-18-1965

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1976 Wong, George U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-OCT-1978 Tooker, Ed U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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