Mine detail: Alvarado Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

40.16715, -113.81417

Resource(M)

Primary:	Silver, Gold
Secondary:	Copper
Ore:	Bornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Chrysocolla, Galena, Gold, Malachite, Pyrite, Tenorite
Gangue:	Andradite, Grossularite, Jarosite, Limonite, Opal, Quartz, Wollastonite
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR ORE SHOOTS

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Contact Metasomatic
Production size:	Yes
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1892

Geology

Host rock:	Ochre Mountain Limestone
Host type:	Limestone
Associated rock:	Gold Hill Stock
Associated type:	Diorite
Structure:	Basin And Range, Northeast-Striking, Silication, Silicitation Cross Fractures
Tectonic:	Sevier Orogenic Belt
Alteration processes:	Marbleization, Silication, Silicification

References

MRDS	DC15175
DEP	10102140
Reference	{Analytical Data:: SRC.REF: FLINT (1960) CITED IN EL-SHATOURY AND WHELAN (1970, P. 31, AND FI. 10, FACING P. 307.}{Deposit:: KEMP, J.F., AND PAUL BILLINGSLEY, 1918, NOTES ON GOLD HILL AND VICINITY, TOOELE COUNTY, WESTERN UTAH: ECON. GEOL., VOL .13, P. 258-259.}{Deposit:: MESSENGER, H.M. III, 1981, ON-SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY.}{Deposit:: NOLAN, T.B., 1935, THE GOLD HILL MINING DISTRICT, UTAH: US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROF. PAPER 177, P. 128-131.}{Deposit:: EL-SHATOURY, H.M., AND J.A. WHELAN, 1970, MINERALIZATION IN THE GOLD HILL MINING DISTRICT, TOOELE COUNTY, UTAH: UGMS BULL. 83, P. 29-30.}{Deposit:: 1935 GEOLMAP NOLAN, 1935, PROF. PAPER 177, PL. 2}{Deposit:: 1935 MINEMAP NOLAN, 1935, PROF. PAPER 177, FIGS. 16-18}{Deposit:: 1970 COMPILE UGMS, 1970, BULL.83, P.29-30}{Deposit:: 1976 RECON UGMS, 1976, OPEN FILE REPT.}{Deposit:: 1981 RECON UGMS, 1981, OPEN FILE REPT.}{Production:: NOLAN, T.B., 1935, USGS PROF. PAPER 177, P. 128; EL-SHATOURY AND WHELAN, 1970, P. 30}
Reporter	Unknown, Messenger, Harold M. III