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Old Telegraph

Past Producer in Salt Lake county in Utah, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, Copper, Gold, Zinc, Iron
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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. 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 10020904
MRDS ID DC14245
Record type Site
Current site name Old Telegraph

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.13913, 40.50966 (WGS84)
Elevation 2103
Relative position ONE MILE SE OF 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 35,36 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • INCLUDES NEZ PERCES, NO-YOU-DON'T AND MONTREAL MINES. CONSOLIDATED IN 1900 WITH OLD JORDAN, GALENA, AND NIAGARA AS THE U.S. MINING CO. THE MINE TODAY IS UNDER THE WASTE DUMPS OF THE OPEN PIT.

Commodities

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

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcocite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Gold Ore
Malachite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Metamorphosed Limestone

Analytical data

Result 1876 : 50.43 % LEAD CARBONATES, 15.02 % PBS, 3.78 % IRON OXIDES, 0.67 % COPPER SULFIDES, 7.37 % IRON SULFIDES, 12.47 % SILICA, 3.01 % ALUMINA, 3.64 % LS, 0.26 % MG CARB., 3.04 % SULFATES, 0.19 % H2O, 0.06 % AG PER TON

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.13913, 40.50966
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR LENSES
    Strike NE - SW
    Dip 30 NW
    Thickness 182.88M
    Length 76.2M
    Width 18.29M

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: THE ORE LIES BETWEEN A HANGING WALL OF EITHER SEMI-CRYSTALLINE LIMESTONE OR MONZONITE AND A FOOTWALL OF EITHER QUARTZITE OR CHERTY LIMESTONE.

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

  • TOTAL PRODUCTION TO 1900 WAS ABOUT $16,000,000.

Comments on the workings information

  • A SERIES OF TUNNELS NAMED TRIBUNE, CONTRACT, MONTREAL, CARPENTER SHOP, EVANS, PROCTOR, GRECIAN BEND, MILL, ROMAN EMPIRE, AND MONTANA. TOTAL WORKINGS COMBINE WITH THE OLD JORDAN AND NIAGARA IS ABOUT 15 MILES.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS PROF PAPER 38 , P. 248

  • Deposit

    LAVAGNINO, G., 1887 , THE OLD TELEGRAPH MINE, UTAH: TRANS. AIME VOL. 16 , P. 25 - 33

  • Deposit

    CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 03-25-1958

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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