Mine detail: Porphyry Knob Prospect #1

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

40.33522, -112.22858

Resource(M)

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

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Replacement
Production size:	None
Development status:	Occurrence

Geology

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

References

MRDS	D008538
DEP	10012700
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 QUADRANGELS: 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.}
Reporter	Mohammad, Hasan