Mine detail: Dolly Varden Mine

Previously called 'Colonial Tunnel'

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Location: Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, North America
Lat / long: 40.64161, -111.67968
dep_id: 10021003
mrds_id: DC14663
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Lead, Zinc, Silver
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Galena, Silver, Smithsonite
gangue: Calcite
orebody_fm: IRREGULAR
work_type: Underground
alteration: Bleaching And Recrystallization Of Limestone
conc_proc: Hydrothermal
ore_ctrl: Favorable Beds Of Limestone
Reporter: Doelling, Hellmut H.
hrock_unit: Maxfied Limestone;Ophir
hrock_type: Limestone
arock_unit: Diorite Dikes
arock_type: Diorite
Structure: N. Flank, Big Cottonwood Uplift
tectonic: Shelf
disc_yr: 1871
References:
  • 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;
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