Gold Hill (Clifton) District

Prospect in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodities Gold, Lead, Copper, Bismuth, Tungsten, Arsenic, Molybdenum
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Mining district
  9. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60001637
MRDS ID W002878
Record type District
Current site name Gold Hill (Clifton) District

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.80084, 40.16663 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gold Hill(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)

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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Tooele

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Lead Primary
Copper Primary
Bismuth Critical Secondary
Tungsten Critical Secondary
Arsenic Critical Secondary
Molybdenum Secondary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.80084, 40.16663

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Significant Yes
Discovery year 1858
Year of first production 1871

Mining district

District name GOLD HILL DISTRICT
District name CLIFTON DISTRICT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Beyond USGS

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