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Ingersoll Mine

Past Producer in Salt Lake county in Utah, United States with commodity Copper
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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. 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 10041780
MRDS ID M057555
Record type Site
Current site name Ingersoll Mine
Alternate or previous names Boston Consolidated Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.16052, 40.51494 (WGS84)
Elevation 2202
Relative position 0.75 MI SW 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 34 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • MINE HAS BEEN EXCAVATED BY THE OPEN PIT.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcocite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Pyrite Ore

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.16052, 40.51494
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Fault Planes (N 25 E, N 25 W, N 75 W

Ore body information

  • Dip NORTH

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: THE ORE BODY IS BOUNDED BY A BARREN LIMESTONE FOOTWALL TO THE SOUTH AND FAULT PLANES IN THE NORTHEAST AND NORTHWEST.

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

  • AN 850 FT TUNNEL, RAISE, WINZE, AND VARIOUS CROSSCUTS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BOUTWELL, J. M., 1905 , ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF THE BINGHAM MINING DISTRICT: USGS PP 38 , P. 283

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1978 Wong, George (Tooker, Ed) U.S. Geological Survey

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