Distribution of selected metals in the Stockton district, Utah

Abstract

Spectrographic analyses of bedrock and oxidized surficial materials from the Stockton district in northeastern Ctah indicate a zonal distribution of metals spatially related to an intrusive center of Tertiary age. Areas of locally high bismuth and molybdenum concentrations define the central zone; copper and lead-zinc-arsenic areas overlap and,exeld progressively farther from the central zone ; locally high boron concentrations in the outer zone extend largely beyond the limirs of significant, known mineralization; silver and antimony are erratically distributed in the area studied. The present distribution of metals at Stockton apparently reflects hypogene environmental controls.