Mine detail: Midas Mine

Previously called 'Lucky May'

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Location

Lat / long:

40.07049, -113.80778

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold
Secondary:	Silver
Tertiary:	Copper, Arsenic
Ore:	Chalcopyrite, Pyrite, Wollastonite
Gangue:	Diopside, Garnet, Quartz
Orebody form:	TABULAR

Production

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

Geology

Host type:	Quartzite
Associated type:	Diorite
Structure:	Basin And Range, Several Local Faults
Tectonic:	Geolsyncline
Alteration processes:	Bleaching

References

MRDS	M057978
DEP	10041929
Reference	{Deposit:: NOLAN, T.B., 1935, THE GOLD HILL MINING DISTRICT, UTAH: U.S. GEOL. SURV. PROF. PA. 177, PP. 134-5.}{Deposit:: THOMSON, K.C., 1973, MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE DEEP CREEK MOUNTAINS, TOOELE AND JUAB COS, UTAH: UT. GEOL. SURV. BULL. 99. PP. 28-9.}{Deposit:: 1935 GEOLMAP NOLAN, PROF. PAPER 17}{Production:: NOLAN, T.B., 1935, THE GOLD HILL MINING DISTRICT, UTAH: USGS PP. 177}
Reporter	Messenger, Harold M. III