Mine detail: Confidence Mine

Previously called 'Bachelor Claims'

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Location: Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, North America
Lat / long: 40.64577, -111.66607
dep_id: 10021002
mrds_id: DC14662
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Silver, Lead
Minor mineral: Copper, Gold, Zinc
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Contact Metasomatic
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Silver, Sphalerite
gangue: Pyrite
orebody_fm: IRREGULAR
work_type: Underground
alteration: Bleaching
ore_ctrl: Contact Between Intrusive Diorite Sills And Limestone
Reporter: Doelling, Hellmut H.
hrock_unit: Doughnut
hrock_type: Shale,Limestone
arock_unit: Diorite Sills
arock_type: Diorite
Structure: North Flank, Big Cottonwood Uplift
tectonic: Shelf
Year first produced: 1932
References:
  • Deposit:: JAMES, L.P., 1979, GEOLOGY, ORE DEPOSISTS, AND HISTROY OF THE BIG COTTONWOOD MINING DISTRICT SALT ALKE CO. UTAH: UTAH GEOL. & MINERAL SURV. BULL. 114.
  • Deposit:: CRITTENDEN, M.D. JR., 1965, GEOLOGY OF THE MOUNT AIRE QUADRANGLE, SALT LAKE CO., UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MAP GQ-379
  • Deposit:: CALKINS, F.C. AND B.S. BUTLER, 1943, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE COTTONWOOD-AMERICAN FORK AREA, UTAH: US. GEOL. SURY PROF. PAPER 201
  • Deposit:: BUTLER AND OTHERS, 1920, THE ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH: U.S GEOL SURVEY PROF. PAPER 111
  • Production:: JAMES, L.P., 1979, P. 55-56
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