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Columbia

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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10020896
MRDS ID DC14231
Record type Site
Current site name Columbia
Alternate or previous names Ohio Copper Company

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.14274, 40.52022 (WGS84)
Elevation 1996
Relative position SE OF 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

  • MINE IS NOW DUG UP BY THE OPEN PIT. ALTITUDE IS THAT OF THE ORIGINAL LANDSCAPE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gold Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • SURFACE CARBONATES, OXIDES, AND NATIVE COPPER PASS DOWNWARD INTO SECONDARY SULPHIDES AND PRIMARY SULPHIDES AT DEPTH. CORES OF BLACK PYRITIC SULPHIDES IN GREEN CARBONATES.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Malachite Ore

Analytical data

Result HIGH CU VALUES AND $6 IN GOLD IN ONE FISSURE

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.14274, 40.52022
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form THREE VEINS
    Strike E-W
    Dip 34 - 41 S

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: A 12 - 14 FT OF PYRITIC SULFIDE IS OVERLAIN BY 3 FT OF DECOMPOSED QUARTZITE, 1 FT OF ORE, AND A SLICKENSLIDED ALTERED ROOF OF TALCOSE MATERIAL.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Bingham District

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION OF 175,000 LBS OF COPPER IN 1902 .

Comments on the workings information

  • 1,000 FT TUNNEL AND DRIFTS WITH INCLINE, STOPES.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ALONG THE CONTACT OF MONZONITE AND QUARTZITE. SEAMS ALONG FISSURES UP TO 14 FT WIDE.

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

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