Consolidated Lela Prospect

The Consolidated Lela Prospect is a mine located in Tooele county, Utah at an elevation of 6,201 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Consolidated Lela Prospect

Commodity

Tertiary: Iron

Location

State: Utah
County: Tooele
District: Free Coinage

Land Status

Land ownership: Private
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: Conie Hoopiiana

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1937
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: Quartzite
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Cambrian

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Hematite
Ore: Magnetite
Ore: Goethite
Ore: Limonite

Comments

Comment (Location): POINT LOCATION GIVEN IS A REPRESENTATIVE

Comment (Commodity): GOETHITE AND LIMONITE ARE HARD AND SPONGY; HEMATITE, IS EARTHY.

Comment (Production): NO RECORDED PRODUCTION.

Comment (Development): THE U.S. BUREAU OF MINES FIELD WORK (1980) WAS PART OF A MINERAL RESOURCES EVALUATION OF A RARE II AREA (04-757) IN THE STANSBURY MTNS. SECTION (GRANTSVILLE DIV.) OF THE WAS ATCH NATIONAL FOREST.

Comment (Workings): TWO ADITS, A 26 FT. DEEP SHAFT, AND SEVEN PITS COMPRISE THE WORKINGS.

References

Reference (Deposit): BULLOCK, K.C., 1976, ON-SITE INVESTIGATION, UTAH GEOL. 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): 1976 RECON UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY

Reference (Deposit): 1980 RECON USBM-DENVER, COLORADO

Reference (Production): BULLOCK, K.C., 1970, IRON ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH: UGMS BULL. 88, P. 77.

Reference (Deposit): ALMQUIST, CARL, AND KNESS, RICHARD, 1980, ON-SITE INVESTIGATION, U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, DENVER, COLORADO.

Reference (Deposit): BULLOCK, K.C., 1970, IRON DEPOSITS OF UTAH: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY BULLETIN 88, P. 77.

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