Mine detail: Mascotte Tunnel

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

40.52716, -112.09747

Resource(M)

Primary:	Zinc, Lead, Copper, Silver
Secondary:	Gold
Ore:	Anglesite, Bornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Cuprite, Galena, Gold, Malachite, Sphalerite
Gangue:	Actinolite, Biotite, Calcite, Chlorite, Diopside, Garnet, Magnetite, Quartz, Sericite, Talc
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	None
Development status:	Occurrence

Geology

Host rock:	Latite Porphyry And Breccia
Host type:	Latite
Associated rock:	Latite Porphyry And Breccia
Associated type:	Latite
Structure:	Basin And Range, Fissures, Fractures, Faults And Folds
Tectonic:	Sevier Orogenic Belt
Alteration processes:	Chloritization, Biotitization, And Silicification, Etc.

References

MRDS	DC14754
DEP	10021047
Reference	{Deposit:: BRAY, E.R., WILSON, L.C., 1975, GUIDE BOOK TO THE BINGHAM MINING DISTRICT: SOCIETY OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGISTS}{Deposit:: COOK, D.R., 1961, GEOLOGY OF THE BINGHAM MINING DISTRICT AND NORTHERN OQUIRRH MOUNTAIN, GUIDE BOOK TO THE GEOLOGY UTAH, NO. 16 UTAH GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 145P.}{Deposit:: BUTLER, B.S., ET. AL., 1920, THE ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH: USGS P.P. 111, 672P.}{Deposit:: BOUTWELL, J.M., 1905, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF THE BINGHAM MINING DISTRICT, UTAH: USGS P.P. 38, 410P.}
Reporter	Mohammad, Hasan