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Crown Point

Past Producer in Salt Lake county in Utah, United States with commodities Copper, Gold
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10020874
MRDS ID DC14197
Record type Site
Current site name Crown Point

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.15358, 40.533 (WGS84)
Elevation 1875
Relative position SOUTH OF BINGHAM CANYON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Salt Lake(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bingham Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Jordan(hydrologic unit)

Jordan(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Salt Lake

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 003S 003W 26 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • MINE IS PROBABLY DUG UP BY THE BINGHAM OPEN PIT.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Copper Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidized To 20 Ft Below Surface

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Latite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pennsylvanian

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Fault Fissures (N 40 W), Fissures (Ne - Sw; Nw - Se)

Ore body information

  • General form BED
    Plunge direction 35 - 40 NW
    Thickness 1.22M

Comments on the geologic information

  • A SILL LIKE INTRUSIVE IS EXPOSED IN THE INCLINE. THE MINERALIZED VEIN, A BED OF MASSIVE PYRITE (LOW CU, AU VALUES) 3-4 FT THICK, LIES BETWEEN A QUARTZITE FOOTWALL AND A CALCAREOUS QUARTZITE HANGING WALL. THE SILL LIES ABOVE BUT NOT IN CONTACT WITH THE ORE. THE ORE BODY IS TRUNCATED ON THE WEST BY A NW FAULT AND PINCHES OUT TO THE EAST.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Bingham District

Comments on the workings information

  • A 200 FT INCLINE AT 35-40 DEG WITH 3 LEVELS, CROSSCUTS, DRIFTS AND STOPES AND A 100 FT TUNNEL.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1975 Mc Coy, Gail U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-NOV-1978 Wong, George (Tooker, Ed) U.S. Geological Survey

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