Mine detail: Mercur Quarry

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 40.33272, -112.21913

Resource(M)

Primary: Gold, Silver
Secondary: Arsenic, Mercury, Antimony
Tertiary: Iron
Ore: Cerargyrite, Cinnabar, Limonite, Orpiment, Pyrite, Realgar, Stibnite
Gangue: Barite, Calcite, Chlorite, Quartz, Sericite, Talc
Orebody form: IRREGULAR

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:Great Blue Limestones;Long Trail Shale Member Of The Great Blue Limsestone
Host type:Limestone
Structure:Basin And Range, Fissures, Fractures, Faults And Folds
Tectonic:Serier Orogenic Belt
Alteration processes:Dolomization, Sericitization, Limomitization, Kaolominzation And Silicification

References

MRDSD008506
DEP10087663
Reference{Deposit:: BISSELL,H.J., ET.AL., 1959, GUIDEBOOK TO THE GEOLOGY OF UTAH, NO.14, UT. GEOL. SOC.: U.G.M.S. BULL.14,262P.}{Deposit:: GILLULY, J.,1932, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE STOCKTON AND FAIRFIELD QUADRANGLES: U.S.G.S. PROF. PA. 173, 167P.}{Deposit:: BUTLER, B.S.,ET. AL.,1920, THE ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH: U.S.G.S. PROF. PA. 111, 672P.}{Deposit:: SPURR, J.E., 1895, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF THE MERCUR MINING DISTRICT, UTAH: U.S.G.S. 16TH. ANN. REPT., PT.2, 454P.}{Production:: BISSELL, H.J., 19598 P. 214; SPURR, J.E., 1895, P.407}
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