Mine detail: Butterfield Nw Mines

Previously called 'Butterfield Group Claims: Northern ChiefBemisHrattEagle BirdQueenButterfield.'

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Location: Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, North America
Lat / long: 40.50105, -112.14636
dep_id: 10020914
mrds_id: DC14262
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral: Zinc, Gold
Minor mineral: Silver, Lead
Trace mineral: Barium-Barite, Arsenic
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Barite, Galena, Sphalerite
gangue: Chlorite, Pyrite, Quartz, Talc
orebody_fm: IRREGULAR
alteration: Sericitization, Chloritization, And Silicification
conc_proc: Hydrothermal
ore_ctrl: Fissures And Fractures
Reporter: Mohammad, Hasan
hrock_unit: Monzonite Porphyry
hrock_type: Monzonite
arock_unit: Monzonite Porphyry
arock_type: Monzonite
Structure: Basin And Range, Eagle Bird Fissure; A Zone Of Fracture Up To 40 Ft. Thick. (Ne-Sw; 10-85nw)
tectonic: Sevier Orogenic Belt
References:
  • 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 DISTRIST 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.
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