Mine detail: Argentine Shaft

Previously called 'Argentine Tunnel'

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Location

Lat / long:

40.51105, -112.18191

Resource(M)

Primary:	Copper, Gold, Lead
Tertiary:	Iron
Ore:	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Limonite, Pyrite
Gangue:	Actinolite, Biotite, Chlorite, Clay, Diopside, Epidote, Garnet, Talc
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:	Upper Bingham Mine
Host type:	Quartzite
Associated rock:	Latite Porphyry And Volcanic Flows
Associated type:	Trachyte,Latite
Structure:	Basin And Range, Breccia Zones (N-S And N30e, Dip Steeply Ne)
Tectonic:	Sevier Orogenic Belt
Alteration processes:	Dolomitization, Biotitization, Chloritization, Diopsitization, Actinolitization And Silicification

References

MRDS	DC14212
DEP	10020884
Reference	{Deposit:: BRAY, E.R., WILSON, J.C., 1975, GUIDE BOOK TO THE BINGHAM MINING DISTRICT: SOCIETY OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGISTS}{Deposit:: COOK, D.R., 1961, GEOLOGY OF THE BINGHAM MINING DISTRICT AND NORTHERN OQUIRRH MOUNTAIN, GUIDE BOOK TO THE GEOLOGY OF UTAH, NO. 16 UTAH GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 145P.}{Deposit:: BUTLER, B.S., ET.AL., 1920, THE ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH: USGS P.P. 111, 672P.}{Deposit:: BOUTWELL, J.M., 1905, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF THE BINGHAM MINING DISTRICT, UTAH: USGS P. P. 38, 410P.}
Reporter	Mohammad, Hasan