Mine detail: Kentucky-Utah Adit

Previously called 'Big Cottonwood Coalition'

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Location: Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, North America
Lat / long: 40.62522, -111.60328
dep_id: 10021011
mrds_id: DC14677
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Copper, Lead, Zinc, Silver
Trace mineral: Bismuth, Tungsten
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Chalcopyrite, Galena, Magnetite, Pyrite, Scheelite, Sphalerite
work_type: Underground
alteration: The Diorite And Adjoining Rocks Are Intensely Altered Consisting Of Calcic Feldspar, Diopside, Titanite, And Garnet.
Reporter: Unknown, Wong, George (Tooker, Ed)
hrock_type: Limestone
arock_type: Diorite,Lamprophyre
Structure: Fracture Zone (Ne, Steep Se), G. P. Dikes (N - S, Vertical), Lamprophyre Dikes (E - Ne, Steep S)
prod_yrs: 1941-1943
References:
  • Deposit:: CALKINS,F.C. & BUTLER,B.S., 1943, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE COTTONWOOD-AMERICAN FORK AREA: USGS PROF. PAPER 201, P. 111-112.
  • Deposit:: JAMES,L.P., 1979, GEOLOGY, ORE DEPOSITS, AND HISTORY OF THE BIG COTTONWOOD MINING DISTRICT: UTAH GEOL. & MIN. SURV., BULL. 114, P. 75-76.
  • Deposit:: USBM MINERAL RESOURCE YEARBOOK 1928-43
  • Deposit:: CONSV. DIV. COMP. DATE, 02-18-1965
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