Mine detail: Southwest Tintic

Previously called 'Golden Treasure MineTintic Copper King ProspectTreasure Hill Shaft'

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Location

Lat / long: 39.89856, -112.10301

Resource(M)

Primary: Copper, Lead, Silver, Gold, Molybdenum
Ore: Pyrite, Tetrahedrite, Chalcopyrite, Molybdenite
Gangue: Quartz
Orebody form: IRREGULAR
Discovery year: 1875

Production

Operation type: Surface-Underground
Deposit type: Porphyry Cu
Production size: Small
Development status: Prospect

Geology

Host type:Andesite
Associated rock:Sunrise Peak Stock, Diamond Gulch
Associated type:Monzonite,Quartz Monzonite,Latite
Structure:Fractures
Alteration processes:Argillization

References

MRDSM058560
DEP10042180
Reference{Deposit:: MORRIS, H.T., AND LOVERING, T.S., 1979, GENERAL GEOLOGY AND MINES OF THE EAST TINTIC MINING DISTRICT, UTAH AND JUAB COUNTIES, UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 1024, 194 PP.}{Deposit:: COOK, D.R., ED., 1957, GEOLOGY OF THE EAST TINTIC MOUNTAINS AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE TINTIC MINING DISTRICTS: UTAH GEOL. SOC. GUIDEBOOK, NO. 12, 183 P.}{Deposit:: MORRIS, H.T., 1964, GEOLOGY OF THE EUREKA QUADRANGLE, UTAH AND JUAB COUNTIES, UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1142-K, P. K1-K29.}{Deposit:: LINDGREN, WALDEMAR, AND LOUGHLIN, G.F., 1919, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE TINTIC MINING DISTRICT, UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 107, 276 PP.}{Deposit:: TOWER, G.H., JR., AND SMITH, G.O., 1899, GEOLOGY AND MINING INDUSTRY OF THE TINTIC DISTRICT, UTAH: US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 19TH ANNUAL REPORT, PAGE 764.}{Deposit:: BULTLER, B.S. AND OTHERS, 1920, ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF. PAPER 111.}{Geology:: Norman, D.K., Parry, W.T., and Bowman, J.R., 1991, Petrology and geochemistry of propylitic alteration at Southwest Tintic, Utah: Economic Geology, v. 86, p. 13?28.}{Geology:: Krahulec, K.A., 1996, Geology and geochemistry of the SWT porphyry copper system, Tintic mining district, Juab County, Utah, in Green, S.M., and Struhsaker, E., eds, Geology and ore deposits of the American Cordillera: Field Trip Guidebook Compendium}{Geology:: Keith, J. D., and others, 1991, The volcanic history and magmatic sulfide mineralogy of latites of the central East Tintic Mountainss, Utah: in Geology and Ore Deposits of the Great Basin Symp. Proceedings, v. 1 p. 461-483.}
ReporterJames, Laurence P.