1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Copper Center Tunnel

Past Producer in Salt Lake county in Utah, United States with commodities Copper, Gold
Map
XML
JSON
KML
C
Sections on this page
  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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10102108
MRDS ID DC14233
Record type Site
Current site name Copper Center Tunnel
Alternate or previous names Copper Center Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.14524, 40.518 (WGS84)
Elevation 2042
Relative position 0.5 MI SE OF THE OPEN PIT CENTER

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 35 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • PART OF THE BOSTON CONSOLIDATED GROUP. INCLUDING STEWART, ARMSTRONG, PHEONIX, BULLDOZER, CAMPBELL, EDISON, PEABODY, AND INGERSOLL PROPERTIES.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Bornite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Pyrite Ore

Analytical data

Result 1905 : 0.3 - 2.28 % CU, $1.20/TON AU, AVERAGE OF 1.31 % CU, 17.5 CENTS/TON AU & AG, 18.35 % FE, AND 26 % SILICA.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pennsylvanian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.14524, 40.518
ListMap

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description The Country Is Traversed By Joint Planes And Irregular Cracks.

Ore body information

  • General form DISSEMINATED

Comments on the geologic information

  • WORKINGS MAINLY IN MINERALIZED FRACTURES OF PORPHYRY. COMPLEX NETWORKS OF THIN QUARTZ VEINS. FRESH MONZONITE CONTAIN MINUTE PYRITE, CHALCOPYRITE, BORNITE ON JOINT PLANES; BLEACHED PORPHYRY IN FRACTURES AND SMALL IRREGULAR MASSES WITH QUARTZ IN VEINLETS AND IN ROCK BETWEEN VEINLETS.

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 production information

  • SEVEN MILL RUNS TOTALING 271,614 DRY TONS.

Comments on the workings information

  • 2,000 FT TUNNEL, THREE SHAFTS, TWO DRILL HOLES, AND SEVERAL HUNDRED FEET OF CROSSCUTS.

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

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Maps centered on this site