Kimberly, (Gold Mountain) District

Past Producer in Piute county in Utah, United States with commodities Silver, Gold, Mercury
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Alteration
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Geologic structures
  9. Controls for ore emplacement
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60001646
MRDS ID W002887
Record type District
Current site name Kimberly, (Gold Mountain) District

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.41748, 38.48327 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Piute(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Belknap(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Beaver(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Richfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Sevier(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Fishlake 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 Piute
United States Utah Sevier

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Primary
Mercury Secondary

Alteration

  • (Local) HYDROTHERMAL

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.41748, 38.48327

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description VOLCANIC CENTER
Type of structure Regional
Structure description N-S WASATCH FRONT

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault/fracture

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Discovery year 1868

Mining district

District name KIMBERLY DISTRICT
District name GOLD MOUNTAIN DISTRICT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BUTLER, B. S., LOUGHLIN, GF, AND HEIKES, V. C. AND OTHERS, 1920, THE ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH: USGS PROF. PAPER 111, 872P.

  • Deposit

    CALLAGHAN, EUGENE, 1938 PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE ALUNITE DEPOSITS OF THE MARYVALE REGION, UTAH: USGS BULL. 886-D P. 91-134

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN, WALDEMAR, 1906, THE ANNIE LAURIE MINE, PIUTE COUNTY, UTAH. USGS BULL. 285-A P. 87-90

  • Deposit

    KOSCHMANN AND BERGENDAHL 1968, GOLD DISTRICTS OF U.S.: USGS PROF. PAPER 610

Beyond USGS

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