Mine detail: Carr Fork Mine

Previously called 'Carr Fork Copper DepositApex Mine and TunnelUtah Apex Pre 1947Bingham Limestone Copper Deposit'

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Location

Lat / long: 40.53133, -112.19108

Resource(M)

Primary: Lead, Copper, Zinc, Silver
Secondary: Molybdenum, Gold, Manganese
Tertiary: Iron, Platinum, Palladium
Ore: Chalcopyrite, Galena, Hematite, Limonite, Molybdenite, Rhodochrosite, Sphalerite
Gangue: Actinolite, Biotite, Clay, Diopside, Epidote, Garnet, Opal, Talc, Wollastonite
Orebody form: IRREGULAR, TABULAR, WEDGE
Discovery year: 1873

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Skarn Cu
Production size: Medium
Development status: Past Producer

Geology

Host rock:Commercial and Jordan Limestones within; Bingham Mine Formation above Butterfield Peaks Formation
Host type:Quartzite,Limestone
Associated rock:Bingham Stock;Last Chance Stock;Quartz-Monzonite Porphyry
Associated type:Quartz Monzonite,Trachyte
Structure:Faults, Folds, Fractures And Fissures
Tectonic:Sevier Orogenic Belt, Basin And Range
Alteration processes:Dolomitization, Diopsitization, Actinloitization, Biotitization, Silicification, Chloritization

References

MRDSM057559
DEP10041786
Reference{Deposit:: BRAY, E.R., AND WILSON, J.C., 1975, GUIDEBOOK TO THE BINGHAM MINING DISTRICT: SOCIETY OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGISTS, BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH, OCT. 23, 1975, 156 P.}{Deposit:: COOK, D.R., 1961, GEOLOGY OF THE BINGHAM MINING DISTRICT AND NORTHERN OQUIRRH MOUNTAINS: GUIDEBOOK TO THE GEOLOGY OF UTAH, NO. 16, UTAH GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 145 P.}{Deposit:: BUTLER, B.S., LOUGHLIN, G.F., HEIKES, V.C., AND OTHERS, 1920, THE ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 111, 672 P.}{Deposit:: BOUTWELL, J.M., 1905, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF THE BINGHAM MINING DISTRICT, UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 38, 410 P.}{Deposit:: CAMERON, D.E., AND GARMOE, W.J., 1987, GEOLOGY OF SKARN AND HIGH-GRADE GOLD IN THE CARR FORK MINE, UTAH: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 82, P. 1319-1333.}{Deposit:: COX, D.P., U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, UNPUB. DATA.}{Geology:: Phillips C H, Harrison E D and Smith T W, 2005 - Geology of the Bingham Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, in Porter T M, (Ed), Super Porphyry Copper and Gold Deposits: A Global Perspective, v1 pp 243-257}{Geology:: Atkinson, W.W.,Jr. and Einaudi, M.T. 1978, Skarn Formation and Mineralization in the Contact Aureole at Carr Fork, Bingham, Utah; Economic Geology Vol. 73, 1326-1365}{Production:: REVIEW 74/06 CRIB MINERAL RESOURCES FILE 12, P. 1821; CAMERON AND GARMOE, 1987}{Reserve-Resource:: COX, UNPUB. DATA}
ReporterMohammad, Hasan, Cox, Dennis P., Peterson, Jocelyn A.