Mine detail: Chief Mine

Previously called 'Chief #1 MineChief Consolidated #1'

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Location

Lat / long: 39.95075, -112.11749

Resource(M)

Tertiary: Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc
Other material: Anglesite, Argentite, Azurite, Barite, Calcite, Cerargyrite, Cerussite, Galena, Gold, Hematite, Hemimorphite, Jasper, Limonite, Malachite, Plumbojarosite, Pyrite, Quartz, Silver, Smithsonite, Sphalerite, Wurtzite
Discovery year: 1910

Production

Operation type: Underground
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1910

Geology

References

MAS490230086
DEP10179030
Reference{Deposit:: LINDGREN W. AND G.F. LOUGHLIN, 1919, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSIT}{Deposit:: E TINTIC DISTRICT: USGS PRO. PAPER 107, P. 132, 167, 205-207}{Deposit:: MORRIS, H.T., 1957, GENERAL GEOLOGY OF THE EAST TINTIC MOUNT}{Deposit:: TAH IN GEOLOGY OF EAST TINTIC MOUNTAINS AND ORE DEPOSITS OF}{Deposit:: TIC MINING DISTRICTS: UTAH GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY GUIDEBOOK TO G}{Deposit:: OF UTAH, NO. 12, P. 80-93}
ReporterUtah Geological And Mineral Survey