Mine detail: Goshute Canyon Property

Previously called 'Lower Goshute Canyon Properties'

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Location: Tooele County, Utah, United States, North America
Lat / long: 39.91077, -113.82778
dep_id: 10012035
mrds_id: D007364
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Silver, Gold, Copper
Trace mineral: Iron, Zinc, Lead
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Malachite, Plumbojarosite, Specularite, Sphalerite
gangue: Goethite, Kaolinite, Limonite, 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;Goshute Canyon Formation (Host) Member C;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
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:: 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:: REPORT ON THE DEEP CREEK WILDERNESS WITHDRAWAL AREA AS (WSA) BY BLM, 1979
  • Deposit:: 1979 GEOCHEM DOE GJBX-8(80) LAWRENCE LIVERMORE LAB.
  • Production:: EVERTS, M.L., 1980, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. & MIN. SURV.
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