Mine detail: Confidence Mine

Previously called 'Bachelor Claims'

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Location

Lat / long: 40.64577, -111.66607

Resource(M)

Primary: Silver, Lead
Secondary: Copper, Gold, Zinc
Ore: Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Silver, Sphalerite
Gangue: Pyrite
Orebody form: IRREGULAR

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Contact Metasomatic
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1932

Geology

Host rock:Doughnut
Host type:Shale,Limestone
Associated rock:Diorite Sills
Associated type:Diorite
Structure:North Flank, Big Cottonwood Uplift
Tectonic:Shelf
Alteration processes:Bleaching

References

MRDSDC14662
DEP10021002
Reference{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}
ReporterDoelling, Hellmut H.