Mine detail: Ingersoll Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

40.32133, -112.20913

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold, Silver
Secondary:	Mercury, Antimony, Arsenic
Tertiary:	Iron
Ore:	Cerargyrite, Cinnabar, Orpiment, Pyrite, Realgar, Stibnite
Gangue:	Barite, Calcite, Sericite, Talc
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Medium
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1890
Last production ended:	1907

Geology

Host rock:	Great Blue Limestones;Long Trail Shale Member Of The Great Blue Limestone
Host type:	Limestone
Structure:	Basin And Range, Fractures, Fissures, Faults And Folds
Tectonic:	Sevier Orogenic Belt
Alteration processes:	Dolomitization, Sericitization And Silicification

References

MRDS	D008522
DEP	10012691
Reference	{Deposit:: BISSELL,H.J., ET. AL., 1959, GUIDEBOOK TO THE GEOLOGY OF UTAH, NO.14, UT. GEOL. SOC.:U.G.M.S. BULL.14,262P.}{Deposit:: GILLULY,J., 1932, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE STOCKTON AND FAIRFIELD QUADRANGLES:U.S.G.S. PROF. PA. 173, 167P.}{Deposit:: BUTTLER,B.S., ET. AL., 1920, THE ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH: U.S.G.S. PROF. PA. 111, 672P.}{Deposit:: SPURR, J.E., 1895, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF THE MERCUR MINING DISTRICT, UTAH:U.S.G.S. 16TH. ANN. REPT., PT. 2, 454P.}{Production:: GILLULY, J., 1932, P.137-139}
Reporter	Mohammad, Hasan