Mine detail: Rover Hill Prospect #5

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

40.34272, -112.2433

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold, Silver
Secondary:	Antimony, Mercury, Arsenic
Tertiary:	Iron
Ore:	Cinnabar, Orpiment, Pyrite, Realgar, Stibnite
Gangue:	Calcite, Chlorite, Quartz, Sericite, Talc
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 Limestone
Host type:	Limestone
Associated rock:	Bir * Eye Porphyry
Associated type:	Diorite
Structure:	Basin And Range, Fissures And Fractures
Tectonic:	Servier Orogenic Belt
Alteration processes:	Dolomitization And Silicification

References

MRDS	D008549
DEP	10094501
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.}
Reporter	Mohammad, Hasan