Porphyry Cu-Au-Mo ores at heart of district. Silver and gold in replacement bodies surrounding intrusive.
also see an old movie here: http://www.archive.org/details/copper_mining_and_smelting
References:
USGS Professional paper 38 (1905)
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Phillips, C.H., Smith, T.W., and Harrison, E.D. (1997) Alteration, metal zoning, and ore controls in the Bingham Canyon porphyry copper deposits, Utah. In: Geology and Ore Deposits of the Oquirrh and Wasatch Mountains, Utah (.A. John & .H. Ballantyne, editors). Society of Economic Geologists, Guidebook Series 29: 133-145.
Waite, K.A., Keith, J.D., Christiansen, E.H., Whitney, J.A., Hattori, K., Tingey, D.G., and Hook, C.J. (1997) Petrogenesis of the volcanic and intrusive rocks associated with the Bingham Canyon porphyry Cu-Au-Mo deposit, Utah. In: Geology and Ore Deposits of the Oquirrh and Wasatch Mountains, Utah (D.A. John & G.H. Ballantyne, editors). Society of Economic Geologists, Guidebook Series 29: 1242-1249.
Redmond, P.B. (2002) Magmatic-Hydrothermal Fluids and Copper-Gold Ore Formation at Bingham Canyon, Utah. Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
Redmond, P.B., Einaudi, M.T., Inan, E.E., Landtwing, M.R., and Heinrich, C.A. (2004) Copper deposition by fluid cooling in intrusion-centered systems: new insights from the Bingham porphyry ore deposit, Utah: Geology: 32: 217-220.
