Mining District with commodities copper, gold, indium, lead, molybdenum, platinum-group elements, rhenium, silver, zinc
More information at and near this site: In-UT00017
| Feature ID | In-Mr00077 |
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| Other names | West Mountain |
| Geographic coordinates | -112.1407, 40.5339 |
| Point definition | Approximate center of the polygon |
| Polygon definition | Location of Bingham district from imported GIS file |
| Reference | Utah Geological Survey (2019); Utah mining district GIS layer Date: 2018
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| Remarks | (1) James (1973); (2) Rio Tinto (2021-2022); (3) Werner and others (2017); (4) John and Taylor (2016); (5) John and others (2017) |
It has been estimated that during the opening period of placer mining in this district up to 1871 about $1,000,000 in gold was recovered from gravels.
Boutwell, J.M., Keith, A., and Emmons, S.F., 1905, Economic geology of the Bingham mining district, Utah, with a section on areal geology, and an introduction on general geology: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 38, 389 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/pp38.
| Dates | Status | Detail | Reference |
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| 1850 to 1850 | Discovery | Initial discovery of lead-silver mineralization in Bingham Canyon | Krahulec (2018a) |
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| Geologic map unit | -112.1407, 40.5339 |
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