The Brown Rock Prospects is a barium-barite mine located in Tooele county, Utah at an elevation of 6,339 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 6,339 Feet (1,932 Meters)
Commodity: Barium-Barite
Lat, Long: 40.13222, -113.85306
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Brown Rock Prospects MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Brown Rock Prospects
Secondary: Gold Hill Barite-Limonite
Secondary: Prospects
Commodity
Primary: Barium-Barite
Secondary: Iron
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
Type: Surface/Underground
Ownership
Not available
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: M
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: TABULAR
Structure
Type: R
Description: Basin And Range
Type: L
Description: Northwest-Striking Faults
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Silicification, Argillization, Hematitization
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Barite
Unknown: Hematite
Unknown: Goethite
Unknown: Limonite
Comments
Comment (Deposit): IRON OXIDES AND BARITE ARE ABUNDANT IN NORTH TO NORTHWEST-STRIKING FAULT ZONES MARKED BY PROMINENT JASPEROID ZONES CROPPING-OUT FOR THOUSANDS OF FEET. BARITE REPL. ZONES ARE ALSO COMMON IN THE AREAS BETWEEN THESE FAULTS.
Comment (Workings): FIVE ADITS (120 FT., 87 FT., 28 FT., 2 CAVED), A 10 FT. SHAFT, AND A NUMBER OF BULLDOZER CUTS, OPENCUTS, AND PITS.A F1 MESSENGER, H.M. III, 1980, ON-SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY.
References
Reference (Deposit): NOLAN, T.B., 1935, THE GOLD HILL MINING DISTRICT, UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF. PAPER 177.
Reference (Deposit): BULLOCK, K.C., 1970, IRON DEPOSITS OF UTAH: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY BULL 88. P. 75
Reference (Deposit): 1935 GEOLMAP NOLAN, T.B., PROF. PAPER 177, PL.
Reference (Production): MESSENGER, H.M. III, 1980, ON-SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY
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