Mine detail: Cottonwood Gold Eagle Mine

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Location: Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, North America
Lat / long: 40.61133, -111.77079
dep_id: 10020923
mrds_id: DC14278
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Silver, Iron
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
orebody_fm: OTHER, UNKNOWN
work_type: Underground
Reporter: Tripp, Bryce T.
hrock_type: Quartz Monzonite
arock_unit: Quartz Monzonite Of The Little Cottonwood Stock;Lamprophyre Dike
arock_type: Quartz Monzonite,Lamprophyre
Structure: Wasatch Fault Zone
tectonic: Uinta Arch
Year first produced: 1925
References:
  • Deposit:: JAMES, L.P., 1979, GEOLOGY, ORE DEPOSITS AND HISTORY OF THE BIG COTTONWOOD DISTRICT, UTAH: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY BULLETIN 114, P.49.
  • Deposit:: CRITTENDEN, M.B., JR., 1965, GEOLOGY OF THE DRAPER QUADRANGLE, UTAH: USGS MAP GQ-377.
  • Production:: JAMES, L.P., 1979, P. 49.
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