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Gold Hill Mine (Western Utah Mine), Gold Hill, Gold Hill District (Clifton District), Deep Creek Mts, Tooele Co., Utah, USA

Latitude: 40°9'41"N
Longitude: 113°48'24"W
Mine famous for an assemblage of secondary minerals of copper and other metals.

Located about 30 miles southwest of Wendover, Utah.

Mineral List

Mineral list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localities
Actinolite
Adamite
var: Cuprian Adamite
var: Manganoan Adamite
Aikinite
Anatase
Anglesite
Aragonite
Arseniosiderite
Arsenopyrite
Arsentsumebite
Arthurite
Atacamite
Atelestite
Austinite (TL)
var: Cuprian Austinite
Azurite
Barahonaite-(Al)
Bariopharmacosiderite
Baryte
Bayldonite
Beudantite
Birnessite
Bismuthinite
Bismutite
Brochantite
Brookite
Calcite
Caledonite
Carminite
Cerussite
Chalcocite
Chalcophanite
Chalcopyrite
Chenevixite
Chlorargyrite
'Chlorite Group'
Chrysocolla
Clinoclase
Clinozoisite
Conichalcite
Connellite
Copiapite
Copper
Cornubite
Cornwallite
Covellite
Cuprite
Devilline
Dietrichite
Duftite
Ferrisymplesite
Fluorapatite
var: Carbonate-rich Fluorapatite

Galena
Gartrellite
Goethite
Gold
Gypsum
Hematite
Hemimorphite
Hidalgoite
Hydrohetaerolite
Jamesonite
Jarosite
Juanitaite (TL)
Kettnerite
Lavendulan
Leadhillite
'Limonite'
Linarite
Löllingite
Malachite
Melanterite
Metazeunerite
Mimetite
Mixite
Natrojarosite
Natropharmacosiderite
Nontronite
Olivenite
Opal
Parnauite
'Pharmacosiderite Group'
Philipsburgite
Pyrite
Pyrrhotite
Quartz
'Roméite Group
var: Monimolite'

Rutile
Scorodite
Siderite
Silver
Sphalerite
Stibnite
Strashimirite
Symplesite
Talmessite
Tennantite
Thometzekite
Tsumcorite
Tyrolite
Vesuvianite
Wollastonite
Wulfenite
Zálesíite
Zincolivenite


117 entries listed. 98 valid minerals. 2 type localities (valid minerals).

Localities in this Region

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References

Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II: 810.

American Mineralogist (1971): 56: 1359.

Kokinos, M. and Wise, W.S. (1993), Famous Mineral Localities: the Gold Hill mine, Tooele County, Utah. Mineralogical Record: 24(1): 11-22.

Kampf, A. R.; Wise, W. S.; Rossman, G. R. (2000): Juanitaite: A new mineral from Gold Hill, Utah. Mineralogical Record: 31: 301-305.

Viñals, J., Jambor, J.L., Raudsepp, M., Roberts, A.C., Grice. J.D., Kokinos, M., Wise, W.S. (2008): Barahonaite-(Al) and barahonaite-(Fe), new Ca-Cu arsenate mineral species, from Murcia Province, southeastern Spain, and Gold Hill, Utah. Canadian Mineralogist: 46: 205-217.

Anthony, Bideaux, Bladh, Nichols: Handbook of Mineralogy, Vol. IV.

Mineralogical Magazine: 56: 71-73.

Minerals and Mineral Localities of Utah, UGMS Bull 117.

Mineral News: 13(9): 1.


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