Mine detail: Unknown #2

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Location: Box Elder County, Utah, United States, North America
Lat / long: 41.08298, -113.74002
dep_id: 10011128
mrds_id: D005383
Commodity type: metallic
Trace mineral: Copper
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Chalcopyrite, Chrysocolla, Malachite
gangue: Calcite, Hematite, Limonite, Pyrite, Quartz
orebody_fm: IRREGULAR-TABULAR
alteration: Limonitization
conc_proc: Hydrothermal
ore_ctrl: Quartz Vein Or Fissure
Reporter: Doelling, Hellmut H.
hrock_unit: Nounan And St. Charles Formations
hrock_type: Dolomite
tectonic: Miogeosyncline
References:
  • Deposit:: BUTLER, B.S., 1920, ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH: U.S.G.S. PROF. PAPER III.
  • Deposit:: SCHAEFFER, F.E., AND ANDERSON, W.L., 1960, GEOLOGY OF THE SILVER ISLAND MOUNTAINS BOX ELDER AND TOOELE COUNTIES AND ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA: UTAH GEOLOGICAL BULL. 15.
  • Deposit:: DOELLING, H.H., IN PREPARATION, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF BOX ELDER COUNTY, UTAH: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY BULLETIN.
  • Reserve-Resource:: THIS REVIEW
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