Mine detail: Mercur Mines

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

40.31855, -112.21024

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold, Arsenic
Secondary:	Mercury, Silver, Antimony
Tertiary:	Iron
Ore:	Cinnabar, Orpiment, Pyrite, Realgar, Stibnite
Gangue:	Barite, Calcite, Chlorite, Sericite, Talc
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR
Discovery year:	1879

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Large
Development status:	Past Producer

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, Limonitization, Sericitization, And Silicification

References

MRDS	D008544
DEP	10012705
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:: BUTLER,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.137-138}
Reporter	Mohammad, Hasan