The Three Picks Claims is a mine located in Tooele county, Utah at an elevation of 6,401 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 6,401 Feet (1,951 Meters)
Commodity:
Lat, Long: 40.51306, -112.67917
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Three Picks Claims MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Three Picks Claims
Commodity
Tertiary: Iron
Location
State: Utah
County: Tooele
District: Free Coinage
Land Status
Land ownership: National Forest
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: Bronson, Wesley R.
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Deposit Type: Replacement Vein
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Great Basin
Physiographic Detail: Basin And Mountains, Stansbury Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Form: TABULAR
Structure
Type: R
Description: Deseret Anticline
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Oxidation
Rocks
Name: Shale
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Cambrian
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Hematite
Comments
Comment (Workings): FOUR PROSPECT PITS ON IRON OXIDE-FILLED FAULT ZONES PARALLEL TO THE TREND OF THE WESTERN BOUNDARY FAULT OF THE STANSBURY MOUNTAINS.
Comment (Development): THE U.S. BUREAU OF MINES FIELD WORK (1980) WAS PART OF A MINERAL RESOURCES EVALUTATION OF A RARE II AREA (04-757) IN THE STANSBURY MTNS. SECTION (GRANTSVILLE DIV.) OF THE WASATCH NATIONAL FOREST.
References
Reference (Deposit): ALMQUIST, CARL, AND KNESS, RICHARD, 1980, ON-SITE INVESTIGATION; U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, DENVER.
Reference (Deposit): RIGBY, J.K., 1958, GEOLOGY OF THE STANSBURY MOUNTAINS, TOOELE COUNTY, UTAH: UTAH GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 175P.
Reference (Deposit): 1980 RECON U.S. BUREAU OF MINE
Reference (Production): MESSENGER, H.M. III, 1980, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MIN. SURVEY
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