Mine detail: Mercur Canyon Prospect

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Location

Lat / long:

40.31633, -112.20636

Resource(M)

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

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:	Great Blue Limestones;Long Trail Shale Member Of The Great Blue Formation
Host type:	Limestone
Structure:	Basin And Range, Fissures And Fractures
Tectonic:	Sevier Orogenic Belt
Alteration processes:	Silicification

References

MRDS	D008523
DEP	10087670
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:: BUTTLER,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.}
Reporter	Mohammad, Hasan