| | Report (issue) | Selected Mining Districts of Utah by Carl L. Ege Headframe of Centennial Eureka mine, Tintic mining district...MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATION 05-5 UTAH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY a division of 2005 Utah Department of Natural Resources...Resources STATE OF UTAH Jon Huntsman, Jr., Governor DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES Michael Styler, Executive...Executive Director UTAH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Richard G. Allis, Director PUBLICATIONS contact Natural Resources...toll-free: 1-888-UTAH MAP website: http://mapstore.utah.gov email: geostore@utah.gov THE UTAH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY | | | Report (issue) | PAMPHLET FOR THE BINGHAM CANYON 7 1/2-MINUTE QUADRANGLE, SALT LAKE AND TOOELE COUNTIES, UTAH By Edwin W... AND EXPLANATION PAMPHLET FOR THE BINGHAM CANYON QUADRANGLE, UTAH By Edwin W. Tooker and Ralph J. Roberts...Roberts INTRODUCTION The Bingham Canyon quadrangle lies in the north-central part of the Oquirrh Mountains...of the Bingham (Utah Copper), U.S., Lark, and Carr Fork mines, which comprise the greater Bingham mining...mining district. Mining activity in this area began in the early 1860's, and continued until 1985, when the | | Steinberger, I., Hinks, D., Driesner, T., Heinrich, C. A. (2013) Source Plutons Driving Porphyry Copper Ore Formation: Combining Geomagnetic Data, Thermal Constraints, and Chemical Mass Balance to Quantify the Magma Chamber Beneath the Bingham Canyon Deposit. Economic Geology, 108 (4) 605-624 doi:10.2113/econgeo.108.4.605 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | 108, pp. 605–624 Source Plutons Driving Porphyry Copper Ore Formation: Combining Geomagnetic Data, Thermal...Balance to Quantify the Magma Chamber Beneath the Bingham Canyon Deposit INGO STEINBERGER,1,† DONALD HINKS,2...Zürich, Switzerland Tinto Exploration, Salt Lake City, Utah 84116, USA 3 Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche...Switzerland Abstract The formation of porphyry copper deposits requires a focused flux of magmatic fluid...for the world-class Cu-Mo-Au deposit at Bingham Canyon (Utah, United States), which quantifies the essential | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Kennecott’s Bingham Canyon Mine A BRIEF HISTORY Downloaded by [North Carolina State University] at 00:47...Evergreen Lane Salt Lake City, Utah 84106-3313 Historical photos courtesy Photograph Archives Utah State Historical...Historical Society Figure 1. The beginning of surface mining (taken sometime before 1909). This mountain has...WORLD’S FIRST OPEN-PIT copper mine lies approximately 26 miles southwest of Salt Lake City, deeply cut into...eastern flank of the Oquirrh Mountains in Salt Lake County. This mountain range rises 4,000 feet above | | Cunningham, C. G., Austin, G. W., Naeser, C. W., Rye, R. O., Ballantyne, G. H., Stamm, R. G., Barker, C. E. (2004) Formation of a Paleothermal Anomaly and Disseminated Gold Deposits Associated with the Bingham Canyon Porphyry Cu-Au-Mo System, Utah. Economic Geology, 99 (4) 789-806 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.99.4.789 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Deposits Associated with the Bingham Canyon Porphyry Cu-Au-Mo System, Utah CHARLES G. CUNNINGHAM,† U.S...GERRY W. AUSTIN, Kennecott Utah Copper Company, P.O. Box 232, Bingham Canyon, Utah 84006 CHARLES W. NAESER...Services, 5295 South 300 West, Suite 300, Murray, Utah 84107 ROBERT G. STAMM, U.S. Geological Survey,...Abstract The thermal history of the Oquirrh Mountains, Utah, indicates that hydrothermal fluids associated with...the 37 Ma Bingham Canyon porphyry Cu-Au-Mo deposit extended at least 10 km north of the Bingham pit. An | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Inc. Economic Geology, v. 105, pp. 69–90 The Bingham Canyon Porphyry Cu-Mo-Au Deposit. II. Vein Geometry...of Zurich 3 Kennecott Utah Copper, Rio Tinto, Magna, Utah 84044 Abstract Copper, gold, and molybdenum...molybdenum in the Bingham Canyon deposit (Utah, United States) show a systematic distribution in grade and metal...monzonite stock and surrounding sedimentary rocks. Copper ore grades define the shape of an inverted cup...to copper ratio is systematically zoned. The distribution of molybdenum resembles that of copper and | | | Report (issue) | of Base- and Precious-Metal Mining Districts in the Oquirrh Mountains, Utah by Edwin W. looker1 Open-File.... ......... 5 Geologic Setting of North-Central Utah .......................... 7 Oquirrh Mountains Nappes...Characteristics of Mining Districts in the Oquirrh Mountains ........................... ..14 Bingham (West Mountain)...Mountain) mining district ................ .14 Mercur (Camp Floyd) Mining District ......................Ophir Mining District.................................. .27 Stockton (Rush Valley) Mining District ... | | | Report (volume) | SURVEY BULLETIN 1357 Placer Gold Deposits of Utah By MAUREEN G. JOHNSON GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN........................... History of placer mining in Utah..................................... Purpose...study................................... Garfield County. ................................................. 2. Imperial district (Crescent Creek placer).......................... Grand County................... 4. La Sal district (includes Miners Basin)............................ Millard County............. | | | Report (issue) | Center, Rm. 1C402,12201 Sunrise Valley Dr. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah-Federal Bldg., Rm. 8105,125 South State... Chapter E Gold in Porphyry Copper Systems Gold in the Bingham District, Utah By EDWIN W. TOOKER Gold in...the Butte District, Montana By EDWIN W. TOOKER Gold in the Ely (Robinson) Copper District, White Pine...Pine County, Nevada By LAURENCE P.JAMES The Tomboy-Minnie Gold Deposits at Copper Canyon, Lander County...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gold in porphyry copper systems. p. cm. (Geology and resources of gold | | | Book | This is the story of immigrant copper workers and their attempts to organize at the turn of the century...century in Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and El Paso, Texas. These Mexican and European laborers of...racist soci¬ ety and the unbridled power of the mine owners. Mellinger’s book is the first regional history...workers—who labored in the mountain and desert mining camps across the western heartland early in this... In order to reconstruct the lives of those in mining com¬ munities, Mellinger has used little-known | | | Report (issue) | 7 1/2-MINUTE QUADRANGLE, TOOELE, UTAH, AND SALT LAKE COUNTIES, UTAH Compiled by Edwin W. Tooker 1 Open-File................. 4 Geologic structures in the Bingham nappe .............. 5 Stratigraphy and description...7 1/2-minute quadrangle, Tooele, Salt Lake, and Utah Counties, Utah Figure 1. Location of the Lowe...7 1/2-MINUTE QUADRANGLE, TOOELE, SALT LAKE, AND UTAH COUNTIES, UTAH" Compiled by Edwin W. Tooker Abstract...Paleozoic sedimentary rocks are the upper plate of the Bingham nappe, formed by its northeastward movement on | | | Report (issue) | Geology of the Oquirrh Mountains, Utah by Edwin W. Tooker Open-File Report OF 99-571 1999 This report...Acknowledgments Geologic setting of north-central Utah 11 13 15 17 Precambrian basement terrane and the...main nappes 30 31 Pass Canyon nappe 32 Bingham nappe 33 Rogers Canyon nappe 34 Significance of...nappe rocks in the Oquirrh Mountains 41 Pass Canyon nappe 42 Stratigraphic characteristics and correlation...Fork unit of looker and Roberts (1988) 45 Flood Canyon unit of looker and Roberts (1988) 46 __ __ __ | | | Report (issue) | THE STOCKTON 7 1/2-MINUTE. QUADRANGLE, TOOELE COUNTY, UTAH By Edwin W. Tooker1 and RJ. Roberts2 Open-File...nappes ............ . .8 Sedimentary rocks of the Bingham nappe. ............... .9 Sedimentary rocks of..... 15 Dry Canyon area of the Ophir mining district............ 15 Stockton mining district.............quadrangle, Tooele County, Utah Figure 1. Location of the Stockton quadrangle, Utah. ........................ 20 Figure 2. Location of the Bingham and South Mountain nappes and their major structures .... | | | Book | UTAH AND ITS MINERAL WEALT-R UT-A H AND ITS MINERAL WEALTH Published by the MINING COMMITTEE...COMMERCE SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH - I 9 3 0- • Here a re "past and present" views of a titanic mining operation-the...operation-the Bingham workings of the Utah Copper Company, the largest surfa ,c e copper mine in North Am...to tear away at the great pile of lowpercentage copper ore . Ceaseless and increasing activity since that...facts from authoritative sources. The importance of Utah as a mineral producer, which is convincingly shown | | | Report (issue) | Rocks in The Oquirrh Mountains and Bingham Mining District, Utah GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER...Rocks in The Oquirrh Mountains and Bingham Mining District, Utah By E. W. TOOKER and RALPH J. ROBERTS...M. DUNCAN GEOLOGIC STUDIES OF THE BINGHAM MINING DISTRICT, UTAH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER...upper Paleozoic stratigraphy __________ Rogers Canyon sequence _____________ Green Ravine Formation ___________...___________________ Lake Point Limestone _______ Erda Formation _________________ Kessler Canyon Formation _______ | | Long, Keith R., DeYoung,, John H., Ludington, Stephen (1998) Database of significant deposits of gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc in the United States. Open-File Report Vol. 1998 (98-206) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr98206ab | Report (issue) | DATABASE OF SIGNIFICANT DEPOSITS OF GOLD, SILVER, COPPER, LEAD, AND ZINC IN THE UNITED STATES PART A: DATABASE...COMPARISON OF TOTAL PRODUCTION OF GOLD, SILVER, COPPER, LEAD, AND ZINC FOR ALL DEPOSITS IN THE SIGNIFICANT...COMPARISON OF TOTAL RESOURCES OF GOLD, SILVER, COPPER, LEAD, AND ZINC REMAINING IN DEPOSITS IN THE SIGNIFICANT...DISCOVERY OF SIGNIFICANT DEPOSITS OF GOLD, SILVER, COPPER, LEAD, AND ZINC IN THE UNITED STATES, 1545-1996.............12 TABLE 7. THE TEN LARGEST DOMESTIC COPPER DEPOSITS IN TERMS OF PAST PRODUCTION, REMAINING | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | its, Utah,asanExploration Target: HistoryandPre-Excavation Geology Abstract The Bingham mining district...dipping veins and bedded replacement deposits. Copper occurrenceswere known, but largely uneconomic....center of the district had occurredby the end of the 19th century. Breakthroughs in mining technology were...to make the depositrainable, but once begun the mine rapidly becamethe largest in the northern hemisphere...were developedin limestoneunits adjacent to the Bingham stock. A nulnber of careful workers, both famous | | Lanier, G., John, E. C., Swensen, A. J., Reid, J., Bard, C. E., Caddey, S. W., Wilson, J. C. (1978) General geology of the Bingham Mine, Bingham Canyon, Utah. Economic Geology, 73 (7) 1228-1241 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.73.7.1228 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | 1241 GeneralGeologyof theBinghamMine,BinghamCanyon,Utah GEORGE I•ANIER,EDWARD C. JotiN, A. JARENSWENSEN...general geology of the Binghan• mine and presentsa 1: 9,600 scale detailed mine geology map. hnl)Ortant new...sificationof igneousrock. (2) the Ohio Copper (like in Copper Notch, (3) the Alice W. (like extending...subsidiary folds related to the Bingham syncline. Six major igneousphasesof the Bingham stock intrude folded •edimentary...•edimentary rocks of the Butterfield Peaks and Bingham Mine formations. The folding, along with leftlateral | | Stein, H.J., Bankey, Viki, Cunningham, C.G., Zimbelman, D.R., Brickey, D.W., Shubat, M.A., Campbell, D.L., , (1989) Tooele 1 x 2 Quadrangle, Northwest Utah; a CUSMAP preassessment study. Open-File Report Vol. 1989 (89-467) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr89467 | Report (issue) | GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Tooele I°x2° Quadrangle, Northwest Utah A CUSMAP Preassessment Study by Holly J. Stein1...Mel H. Podwysocki2 Prepared in cooperation with Utah Geological and Mineral Survey Open-File Report...Geological and Mineral Survey 606 Black Hawk Way Salt Lake City, UT 84108-1280 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page PREFACE...CURRENT STATUS OF MAJOR MINING DISTRICTS......................... 28 28 37 39 Bingham............................................................. Recent Mining Activity References........................... | | | Report (issue) | DIRECTOR ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF THE BINGHAM MINING DISTRICT, UTAH By JOHN MASON BODTWELL WITH A SECTION...DIRECTOR ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF THE BINGHAM MINING ^DISTRICT, UTAH By JOHN MASON BOUTWELL WITH A SECTION.......... 25 PART I. AREAL GEOLOGY OF THE BINGHAM DISTRICT, BY ARTHUR KEITH. Geography.............................................................. Bingham quartzite........................................66 PART II. ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF THE BINGHAM MINING DISTRICT, UTAH, HY JOHN MASON BOUTWELL. Introduction | | | Report (issue) | resource areas in the Basin and Range Province of Utah by George Wong Open-File Report 83-722 This...Refereaces cited Appendix A - 2 7 Table Table 1. District descriptions Preliminary map of the resource...resource areas in the Basin and Range Province of Utah By George Wong The purpose of this map is to identify...Range Province. These areas include past or present mining and prospecting activity as well as areas of potential...map are not legal mining district boundaries and may include more than one district as well as adjacent | | Atkinson, William W., Garmoe, W. James, James, Laurence P., Moor, William J., Swensen, A. Jaren (1980) The Bingham mining district, Utah; a guide prepared for the Rocky Mountain section of the Geological Society of America 33rd annual meeting, May 16-17, 1980. Open-File Report Vol. 1980 (80-823) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr80823 | Report (issue) | THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY THE BINGHAM MINING DISTRICT, UTAH A guide prepared for the Rocky Mountain...Meeting May 16-17, 1980 Weber State College Ogden, Utah Field Trip no. 7, May 18, 1980 By W. W. Atkinson...Survey standards and nomenclature THE BINGHAM MINING DISTRICT, UTAH A guide prepared for the Rocky Mountain...Meeting May 16-17, 1980 Weber State College Ogden, Utah Field Trip no. 7, May 18, 1980 LEADERS W. V. Atkinson...Carr Fork Project, The Anaconda Company Tooele, Utah 84704 : Laurence P. James Consulting geologist | | | Journal (issue) | Fluorite Specimens Discovered! From the Huanggangliang mine No. 6, Inner Mongolia, China Martin Jensen mineralpro@hotmail...quantities. Although the specimen-producing zone at the mine is reportedly now mined out, this is a significant...designation for the current find is Huanggangliang mine No. 6. Huanggangliang literally interpreted means...different species have been reponed from this tin-iron mining complex. and the ilvaites uncovered about ten (...generally anributed to the No. I Mine as far back as 2010. The mines in this district are developed in skams and | | Lanier, G., Raab, W. J., Folsom, R. B., Cone, S. (1978) Alteration of equigranular monzonite, Bingham mining district, Utah. Economic Geology, 73 (7) 1270-1286 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.73.7.1270 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Alteration ofEquigranular Monzonite, Bingham Mining District,Utah G. LANIER,W. J. t•AAB,t•. B. Fonso•...Equigranularmonzoniteof the Binghamstock,the main host for the Bingham porphyrycopperdeposit,was an augite-actinolite-biotite...unmineralized Last Chance stock ad- jacentto the mine. Mineralogyand chemistryof the alterationis quantifiedin...augitewith hydrothermalmineralscan containsthe Bingham porphyry copper deposit be mappedbetweenthe two stocks...altera- mine vicinity had essentiallythe sameprealteration tion of the Bingham mining district is describedin | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Cu-Au-Mo Porphyry Mineralization System, Bingham Mining District, Utah ARMELLE KLOPPENBURG, JOHN GROCOTT,†...Cu skarn-type mineralization in the Bingham mining district of Utah are temporally and spatially related...comprising the Bingham complex. Structural control on mineralization at the Bingham Canyon mine has been described...intrusions of the Bingham district. We have used both the local three-dimensional static mine model and the...valid and admissible fault framework for the Bingham district and a kinematic solution for this framework |
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