| Deposit ID | 10251736 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | DC12214 |
| MAS/MILS ID | 0490450019 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Buffalo Mine |
| Related records | 10020035 |
| Point of reference | Main Entrance |
|---|---|
| Geographic coordinates: | -112.24, 40.36024 (WGS84) |
| Elevation | 2382 |
| Location accuracy | 100(meters) |
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)
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)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Utah | Tooele |
| Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salt Lake | 005 S | 004 W | 25 | NWSWNE | Utah |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Copper | Tertiary |
| Fluorine-Fluorite Critical | Tertiary |
| Gold | Tertiary |
| Lead | Tertiary |
| Silver | Tertiary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Calcite | Unknown |
| Cerargyrite | Unknown |
| Cerussite | Unknown |
| Chalcopyrite | Unknown |
| Fluorite | Unknown |
| Galena | Unknown |
| Jarosite | Unknown |
| Limonite | Unknown |
| Malachite | Unknown |
| Plumbojarosite | Unknown |
| Pyrite | Unknown |
| Quartz | Unknown |
| Main Entrance (1) | -112.24, 40.36024 |
|---|
| Strike | N25E | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dip | 25S | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Thickness | 5M | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Length | 20M | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Width | 40M | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Area | 20HA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Depth to top | 30M | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Operation type | Underground |
|---|---|
| Development status | Past Producer |
| Commodity type | Both |
| Deposit size | Small |
| Significant | No |
| Discovery year | 1898 |
| District name | Ophir District |
|---|
| Type of mineral rights | Located Claim |
|---|
| Ownership category | Private |
|---|
| Type of workings | Underground | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Length | 1818M | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. Bureau of Mines | Minerals Availability System | MAS | 0490450019 | |
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | DC12214 | MAS references MRDS |
THE STOCKTON DISTRICT, 1932, US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF PAPER 173
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | 75 ORE IS A MINOR OCCURRENCE |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 28-MAR-84 | Utah Geological And Mineral Survey | Utah Geological and Mineral Survey |
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