Mine detail: Dolly Varden Mine

Previously called 'Colonial Tunnel'

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Location

Lat / long: 40.64161, -111.67968

Resource(M)

Primary: Lead, Zinc, Silver
Ore: Galena, Silver, Smithsonite
Gangue: Calcite
Orebody form: IRREGULAR
Discovery year: 1871

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer

Geology

Host rock:Maxfied Limestone;Ophir
Host type:Limestone
Associated rock:Diorite Dikes
Associated type:Diorite
Structure:N. Flank, Big Cottonwood Uplift
Tectonic:Shelf
Alteration processes:Bleaching And Recrystallization Of Limestone

References

MRDSDC14663
DEP10021003
Reference{Deposit:: JAMES, L.P., 1979, GEOLOGY, ORE DEPOSITS, AND HISTORY OF THE BIG COTTONWOOD MINING DISTRICT, SALT LAKE 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: U.S. GEOL. SURY. PROF. PAPER 201}{Deposit:: BUTLER AND OTHERS, 1920. THE ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF. PAPER 111}{Production:: CALKINS AND BULLER, 1943, P. 104;}
ReporterDoelling, Hellmut H.