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Northern Chief

Past Producer in Salt Lake county in Utah, United States with commodities Copper, Lead, Silver, Gold, Zinc
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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 10020915
MRDS ID DC14265
Record type Site
Current site name Northern Chief
Alternate or previous names Butterfield Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.14997, 40.50244 (WGS84)
Elevation 2347
Relative position 1.5 MI SOUTH 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 004S 003W 02 Utah

Commodities

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

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Covellite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Brecciated Porphyry

Analytical data

Result 1905 : 19 % CU, 29 % PB, 14 OZ AG, $19 AU PER TON

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.14997, 40.50244
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form POCKETS

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

  • A SHORT TUNNEL WITH DRIFTS, INCLINES AND SHAFTS.

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

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

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