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Silver Drum Group

Producer in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Sulfur, Sulfur-Pyrite
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Land status
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10108944
MRDS ID FS00711
Record type Site
Current site name Silver Drum Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.63408, 40.49995 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Duchesne(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Farm Creek Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Duchesne(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Salt Lake City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Duchesne(hydrologic unit)

Lower Green(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Green(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Ashley 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 004S 007W 01,12 Utah

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sulfur Tertiary
Sulfur-Pyrite Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • MOST MINES SHUT DOWN AND PROBABLY EXHAUSTED, BUT IRON MOUNTAIN MINE CURRENTLY (1959) WORKED FOR PYRITE, WITH SOME COPPER OBTAINED AS LATE AS 1954 BY PRECIPITATION FROM LEACHING, AND CONSIDERABLE COPPER PRODUCED HERE 1943-47. BALAKLALA MINE ABANDONED IN 1928; MAMMOTH MINE IN 1925. DISTRICT FIRST BECAME IMPORTANT FOR BASE-METALS (COPPER AND ZINC) IN 1897. SILVER IS BY-PRODUCT, ALSO IMPORTANT IN EARLY GOSSANS. CURRENTLY (1959) EXTENSIVE EXPLORATION IN DISTRICT. (MC KNIGHT, 1960?, UNPUBLISHED DATA.)

Analytical data

Result FS MIN EXAM 1958 PLUMB

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.63408, 40.49995
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • DEPOSITS ARE FLAT LENTICULAR REPLACEMENT BODIES OF MASSIVE SULFIDE IN CERTAIN BEDS OF PORPHYRITIC SODA RHYOLITE (DEVONIAN) WHERE BROKEN BY FRACTURE CLEAVAGE, ESPECIALLY ALONG OR NEAR AXES OF BROAD ANTICLINAL OR SYNCLINAL FOLDS, ADJACENT TO FEEDER FAULTS. INTRUSIVE ROCK IS AN ALBITE GRANITE BATHOLITH OF LATE JURASSIC OR EARLY CRETACEOUS AGE. (MC KNIGHT, 1960?, UNPUBLISHED DATA.) NO MEGASCOPIC GANGUE MINERALS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Both
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category
Area name Wasatch

Reference information

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1976 Meier, M. Lorrie U.S. Forest Service

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