The Gold Hill Standard Prospect is a lead, silver, and arsenic mine located in Tooele county, Utah at an elevation of 5,351 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 5,351 Feet (1,631 Meters)
Commodity: Lead, Silver, Arsenic
Lat, Long: 40.16583, -113.82500
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Gold Hill Standard Prospect MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Gold Hill Standard Prospect
Commodity
Primary: Lead
Primary: Silver
Primary: Arsenic
Secondary: Molybdenum
Secondary: Zinc
Location
State: Utah
County: Tooele
District: Clifton (Gold Hill) District
Land Status
Land ownership: BLM Administrative Area
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: Gold Hill Standard Mining
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: Deep Creek Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Form: PINCH AND SWELL
Structure
Type: R
Description: Basin And Range
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Diorite
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Jurassic
Name: Diorite
Role: Host
Age Type: Associated Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Jurassic
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: THE GALENA-RICH ORE WAS ESTIMATED TO CONTAIN 2 OUNCES OF SILVER TO EACH PERCENT OF LEAD.
Materials
Ore: Galena
Ore: Sphalerite
Ore: Wulfenite
Ore: Plumbojarosite
Ore: Anglesite
Gangue: Limonite
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Calcite
Gangue: Jarosite
Gangue: Hematite
Comments
Comment (Deposit): NARROW, NORTH WEST-STRIKING QUARTZ VEINS AND LIMONITE-FILLED FISSURES IN QUARTZ MONZONITE; ALSO WEAK MINERALIZATION ALONG NORTHEAST-STRIKING APLITE DIKES.
Comment (Workings): WORKINGS: 25 FT. DEEP INCLINED SHAFT, A FEW TRENCHES, NUMEROUS PITS.
Comment (Geology): NOLAN DESCRIBED THE ORE MINERALIZATION AS VERY ERRATIC, WITH IN SOME PLACES LENSES OF GALENA 1 FT. WIDE AND SEVERAL FT. LONG.
Comment (Deposit): DURING THE UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY FIELD WORK OF 1981, THE FISSURES DID NOT APPEAR AS WELL MINERALIZED AS NOLAN (1935, P. 149) HAD DESCRIBED. THE ONLY MINERALS IDENTIFIED AS POSSIBLE ORE MINERALS OR THE ALTERATION PRODUCTS OF SUCH, WERE SCORODITE, LIMONITE, JAROSITE, AND A VERY MINOR AMOUNT OF SPHALERITE. ; INFO.SRC : 3 FIELD OBSERV; 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
References
Reference (Analytical Data): SRC.REF: NOLAN, T.B., 1935, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF. PAPER 177, P. 149
Reference (Deposit): DOELLING, H.H., AND H.M. MESSENGER III, 1981, ON-SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY.
Reference (Deposit): NOLAN, T.B., 1935, THE GOLD HILL MINING DISTRICT, UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF. PAPER 177, P. 149.
Reference (Deposit): 1935 GEOLMAP NOLAN, T.B., PROF. PAPER 177, PL. 2
Reference (Deposit): 1935 RECON NOLAN, T.B., PROF. PAPER 177, P. 149
Reference (Production): NOLAN, T.B., 1935, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF. PAPER 177, P. 149
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