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Commercial

Past Producer in Salt Lake county in Utah, United States with commodities Lead, Zinc, Copper, Silver, Gold, Tellurium
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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. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10020897
MRDS ID DC14232
Record type Site
Current site name Commercial
Alternate or previous names Bingham Copper and Gold Mining Company

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.15136, 40.51494 (WGS84)
Elevation 2164
Relative position HALF MI. SOUTH 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

  • CLAIMS INCLUDE COMMERCIAL, COMMERCIAL #1, VERNARD TUNNEL, AND OLD HICKORY. CONSOLIDATED WITH THE BROOKLYN-DALTON AND LARK PROPERTY IN 1901. THE MINE HAS BEEN EXCAVATED BY THE BINGHAM OPEN PIT MINE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Primary
Copper Primary
Silver Primary
Gold Secondary
Tellurium Critical Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • LEAD ORE IS FOUND IN THE UPPER WORKINGS.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcocite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Copper Ore
Cuprite Ore
Enargite Ore
Malachite Ore
Melaconite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Tenorite Ore
Calcite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation To A Depth Of 325 Ft.

Analytical data

Result 1905 , YELLOW PYRITIC ORE: LITTLE COPPER, ONE OZ AU, 3.32 OZ AG, TRACE OF TELLURIUM. FOR BLACK CHALCOCITE ORE: 42.3 OZ CU, 3.8 OZ GOLD, 58.6 OZ AG AND SOME TELLURIDES.

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) -112.15136, 40.51494
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Limestone (Dips 30 N), Fissures (Ne-Sw; Nw-Se, E-W), Fracture Zone (E-W, 80 N, Displacement 100 Ft.)

Ore body information

  • General form SHOOTS, Y SHAPED
    Dip 45 NE
    Thickness 6.1M
    Width 9.14M

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE COMMERCIAL LIMESTONE IS MASSIVE, CHERTY, SILICIFIED, WHITE, MARBLEIZED, AND BANDED. THE ORE IS DISCONTINUED ON THE WEST BY MONZONITE AND ON THE EAST BY A SLIP PLANE WITH A QUARTZITE HANGING WALL. SOME METAL OCCURS AS SEAMS IN THE INTRUSIVE, BUT THE MAIN ORE BODY IS WHOLLY IN LIMESTONE. LOCALLY, PORPHYRY IS ALSO ON FOOTWALL.

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 workings information

  • TWO TUNNELS 300 FT APART VERTICALLY CONNECTED BY INCLINES AND CHUTES. EXTENSIVE DRIFTS, CROSSCUTS, AND STOPES ON 4 LEVELS

Reference information

Comments on the other database information

  • RECORD NUMBER ISM0724 IS A POTENTIAL DUPLICATE OF THIS RECORD

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE SEAMS OF ORE BIFURCATE AND TERMINATES UPWARD.

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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