Mine detail: Prince of Wales Group

Previously called 'Alta Tunnel & Transportation Co.'

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Location

Lat / long:

40.60438, -111.61634

Resource(M)

Primary:	Lead, Silver, Copper, Gold
Ore:	Copper, Galena, Smithsonite, Sphalerite, Wad
Orebody form:	CHIMNEY-LIKE

Production

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

Geology

Host type:	Shale,Limestone
Associated type:	Lamprophyre
Structure:	Grizzly Overthrust And Two Other Obscure Overthrust Above And Below The Grizzly. Fissure (Ne, 60 - 65 N).
Alteration processes:	Some Metamorphism

References

MRDS	DC14137
DEP	10108837
Reference	{Deposit:: BUTLER,B.S. & LOUGHLIN,G.F., 1916, A RECON. OF THE COTTONWOOD-AMERICAN FORK MINING REGION: USGS BULL. 620, P. 191.}{Deposit:: CALKINS,F.C. & BUTLER,B.S., 1943, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE COTTONWOOD-AMERICAN FORK AREA: USGS PROF. PAPER 201, P. 114-115.}{Deposit:: JAMES,L.P., 1979, GEOLOGY, ORE DEPOSITS, AND HISTORY OF THE BIG COTTONWOOD MINING DISTRICT: UTAH GEOL. & MIN. SURV., BULL. 114, P. 76-79.}{Deposit:: USGS MINERAL RESOURCE YEARBOOK 1916-23; USBM MINERAL RESOURCE YEARBOOK 1924-39}{Production:: JAMES, 1979, P. 81}
Reporter	Unknown, Wong, George (Tooker, Ed)