Mine detail: Oro Del Rey Mine

Previously called 'HickockThompson & Lehmer AditsCard Workings'

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Location: Tooele County, Utah, United States, North America
Lat / long: 39.92299, -113.83751
dep_id: 10012033
mrds_id: D007360
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Gold, Silver
Trace mineral: Copper, Lead, Zinc, Iron
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Galena, Gold, Malachite, Plumbojarosite
gangue: Goethite, Kaolinite, Limonite, Pyrite, Quartz
orebody_fm: LENTICULAR
work_type: Underground
ore_ctrl: A N 10-15 E System Of Discontinuous Bifurcating Fractures
Reporter: Everts, Michael L.
hrock_unit: Pioche Shale;Prospect Mtn. Quartzite (Host);Goshute Canyon Formation;Abercrombie Formation
hrock_type: Quartzite,Shale,Conglomerate
arock_unit: Ibapah Stock;Rhyolite Dikes
arock_type: Rhyolite,Granite
Structure: Basin & Range, Tilted Fault Block That Dips 20-45 Deg. W. And Faults That Trend N-Nw & W-Nw
tectonic: Sevier Orogenic Belt
Year first produced: 1934
disc_yr: 1933
discr: Tripp Family
References:
  • Deposit:: THOMPSON, K.C., 1973, MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE DEEP CREEK MTNS, TOOELE-JUAB COUNTIES, UT: UTAH GEOL. & MIN. SURVEY BULL. 99
  • Deposit:: BICK, R.F., 1958, STRATIGRAPHY OF DEEP CREEK MTNS, UT: AAPG BULL. V. 43, P. 1064-1069
  • Deposit:: BICK, R.F., 1959, GEOLOGY OF THE DEEP CREEK QUAD, WESTERN, UT: NEW HAVEN, CONN., UNIV., UNPUBL. PH.D. DISSERTATION.
  • Deposit:: BICK, R.F., 1966, GEOL. OF THE DEEP CREEK MTNS., UT: UTAH GEOL. & MIN. SURVEY BULL. 77, 120 P.
  • Deposit:: BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, 1979, REPORT ON THE DEEP CREEK WILDERNESS AREA (WSA): BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT.
  • Deposit:: PERRY, L.I., 1976, LEAD AND ZINC IN UTAH: UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERALOGICAL SURVEY, SS NO. 22.
  • Deposit:: 1920 RECON BUTLER, B.S., USGS PP 111
  • Deposit:: 1966 GEOLMAP UT. GEOL. & M. SURVEY BULL. 77
  • Deposit:: 1977 RECON UT. GEOL. & M. SURVEY RI #117
  • Deposit:: 1979 GEOCHEM DOE GJBX-8(80) LAWRENCE LIVERMORE LAB.
  • Production:: THOMPSON, 1970, MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE DEEP CREEK MTNS: UT. GEOL. AND MIN. SUR. BULL. 99
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