The Hickman Canyon Mining and Dev. Co. Prospect is a mine located in Tooele county, Utah at an elevation of 8,881 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 8,881 Feet (2,707 Meters)
Commodity:
Lat, Long: 40.44722, -112.59944
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Hickman Canyon Mining and Dev. Co. Prospect MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Hickman Canyon Mining and Dev. Co. Prospect
Secondary: Bear Fork Prospect
Commodity
Tertiary: Copper
Location
State: Utah
County: Tooele
District: Columbia
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: Gus Anderson, Hardy Odell
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
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: Limestone
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Mississippian
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: ASSAYS FROM THE MINERALIZED BRECCIA ZONE SHOW A FRACTION OF A PERCENT IN COPPER AND ZINC.
Materials
Gangue: Limonite
Gangue: Goethite
Comments
Comment (Production): NO PRODUCTION FIGURES RECORDED.
Comment (Development): THE HICKMAN CANYON MINING AND DEV. CO. PROPERTY CONSISTED OF TWELVE UNPATENTED MINING CLAIMS IN 1943. THE ORIGINAL FILINGS WERE MADE DURING 1939 BY GUS ANDERSON AND ASSOCIATES.
Comment (Deposit): THE MINERALIZED BRECCIA ZONE DESCRIBED IS ON THE EAST WALL OF THE SHAFT. NO IN-PLACE ORE MINERALS WERE NOTED BY THE USBM PERSONNEL DURING THEIR UNDERGROUND EXAMINATION.
Comment (Workings): WORKINGS CONSIST OF THREE ADITS, ALL CAVED IN, AND A VERTICAL SHAFT 25 DEEP THAT IS PARTIALLY CAVED, ORIGINALLY 48 FT. DEEP.
Comment (Deposit): THE LOCATION GIVEN IN RECORD NO. DC12170 WAS INCORRECT. ; INFO.SRC : 3 FIELD OBSERV; 2 UNPUB REPT; 1 PUB LIT
Comment (Location): LOCATED AT THE HEAD OF BEAR FORK
Comment (Geology): MALACHITE, AZURITE, AND CUPRITE ARE PRESENT IN GLACIAL COLLURIUM BELOW THE WORKINGS
References
Reference (Analytical Data): SRC.REF: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, 1943, WAR MINERALS REPORT
Reference (Deposit): MESSENGER, H.M. III, 1980, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY.
Reference (Deposit): RIGBY, J.K., 1958, GEOLOGY OF THE STANSBURY MOUNTAINS, TOOELE CO., UTAH; GUIDEBOOK TO THE GEOLOGY OF UTAH, NO. 13, UTAH GEOL. SOCIETY.
Reference (Deposit): 1980 RECON UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY
Reference (Production): U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, 1943, WAR MINERALS REPORT, UNPUBLISHED.
Reference (Deposit): U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, 1943, WAR MINERALS REPORT, UNPUBLISHED OPEN FILE REPORT.
Reference (Deposit): 1943 GEOLMAP USBM-WAR MINERALS REPORT
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