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Quartz from
Bingham Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA


Locality type:Mining District
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Tetrahedrite Subgroupⓘ15 photos of Quartz associated with Tetrahedrite Subgroup at this locality.
Pyriteⓘ14 photos of Quartz associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Molybdenite7 photos of Quartz associated with Molybdenite at this locality.
Wavellite4 photos of Quartz associated with Wavellite at this locality.
Arsenopyrite2 photos of Quartz associated with Arsenopyrite at this locality.
Ferrimolybdite2 photos of Quartz associated with Ferrimolybdite at this locality.
Faustite2 photos of Quartz associated with Faustite at this locality.
Sphalerite1 photo of Quartz associated with Sphalerite at this locality.
Chalcopyrite1 photo of Quartz associated with Chalcopyrite at this locality.
Galena1 photo of Quartz associated with Galena at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bingham Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:67088
Long-form Identifier:1:3:67088:1
GUID (UUID V4):67431f9c-32d1-4c2a-956b-4f08ae9dc452
Localities for Quartz in this Region
Apex-Delaware Group Mines (Utah Apex), Bingham Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Barneys Canyon Lower Mine, Barney’s Canyon, Bingham Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Bingham Canyon Mine, Bingham Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Bingham Tunnel No. 2 Occurrence, Bingham Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Bishop Fork Prospect, Bingham Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Butterfield Canyon, Bingham Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Butterfield Mine, Bingham Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Butterfield Northwest Mines (Queen; Butterfield.; Butterfield group claims: Northern Chief; Eagle Bird; Bemis; Hratt), Bingham Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Butterfield South Mines, Bingham Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Butterfield Southeast Mine, Bingham Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Castro Gulch Mine, Bingham Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Dixon Mine, Bingham Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Dry Fork Mine, Bingham Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Galena Mine, Bingham Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Harkers Canyon Mine, Bingham Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Highland Boy Mine (Utah Consolidated Mining Company; Utah - Apex), Bingham Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Lark Mine, Bingham Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Lucky Boy Mine, Bingham Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Mascotte Tunnel Occurrence, Bingham Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Old Jordan Mine 1863 (U. S. Mining Company 1899), Bingham Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Queen Mine (Butterfield Group), Bingham Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Saints Rest Gulch NE Mines, Bingham Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Saints Rest Gulch SW Mines, Bingham Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Spring Tunnel Prospect, Bingham Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Stockings Fork Mine (Tooele Kelsey), Bingham Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Susquehanna tunnel occurrence, Bingham Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
U. S. Mine (U. S. and Lark Mine; United States Mining Company; Claims: Galena Hoist), Bingham Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Unknown Silver - Lead - Zinc - Copper Occurrence (MRDS - 10012745), Bingham Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Venice Tunnel Mine, Bingham Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
West Mountain Prospect, Bingham Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Yellow Fork Prospect, Bingham Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
York Mine, Bingham Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Yosemite Mine, Bingham Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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
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...surface and (or) underground workings of the Bingham (Utah Copper), U.S., Lark, and Carr Fork mines, which...which comprise the greater Bingham mining district. Mining activity in this area began in the early 1860's
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 (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)
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...Formation ___________ Oquirrh Group ___________________ Lake Point Limestone _______ Erda Formation _________________...Formation ______________ Grandeur Member __________ Bingham sequence ____________________ Oquirrh Group ________________
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.............. . . .13 Quartz monzonite. .............................. .14 Quartz-monzonite porphyry.....Canyon area of the Ophir mining district............ 15 Stockton mining district..........................quadrangle, Tooele County, Utah Figure 1. Location of the Stockton quadrangle, Utah. ................
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...the main nappes 30 31 Pass Canyon nappe 32 Bingham nappe 33 Rogers Canyon nappe 34 Significance...of intrusive and extrusive rocks 70 Bingham mining district area 70 Middle Canyon-Soldier Creek areas...Ophir-Mercur mining district areas 72 Associated mineral resources 73 Bingham mining district 74 Mercur
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...recognizedin pervasivehydrothermal alteration, a central quartz-orthoclase-phlogopite zone correspondingto potassium...augitewith hydrothermalmineralscan containsthe Bingham porphyry copper deposit be mappedbetweenthe two...essentiallythe sameprealteration tion of the Bingham mining district is describedin compositionand may have
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...........................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1241 GeneralGeologyof theBinghamMine,BinghamCanyon,Utah GEORGE I•ANIER,EDWARD C. JotiN, A. JARENSWENSEN...gradationalgranite porphyry as a zone of hybridization around quartz monzoniteporphyry, sin'roundedby a zone of recrystallization...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...accompaniedthrusting. tSarly equigranular phases are quartz poor comparedto the later porphyryphases;both are
Report (issue)
Center, Rm. 1C402,12201 Sunrise Valley Dr. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah-Federal Bldg., Rm. 8105,125 South State...Systems Gold in the Bingham District, Utah By EDWIN W. TOOKER Gold in the Butte District, Montana By EDWIN...TOOKER Gold in the Ely (Robinson) Copper District, White Pine County, Nevada By LAURENCE P.JAMES The Tomboy-Minnie...Tomboy-Minnie Gold Deposits at Copper Canyon, Lander County, Nevada By TED G. THEODORE, STEPHEN S. HOWE, and...Contents: Gold in the Bingham District, Utah / by Edwin W. looker Gold in the Butte District, Montana / by Edwin
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 (article/letter/editorial)
Balance to Quantify the Magma Chamber Beneath the Bingham Canyon Deposit INGO STEINBERGER,1,† DONALD HINKS...Zürich, Switzerland Tinto Exploration, Salt Lake City, Utah 84116, USA 3 Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche...for the world-class Cu-Mo-Au deposit at Bingham Canyon (Utah, United States), which quantifies the essential...pluton that generated the deposit. The mineralized district shows a distinct WSW-ENE–striking magnetic anomaly...Additional constraints from drilled geology and district-wide outcropping rocks, including partial demagnetization
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 (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)
STOCKTON AND LOWE PEAK 7 1/2-MINUTE QUADRANGLES, UTAH By Edwin W. Tooker1 and Ralph J. Roberts2 Open-File...Peaks quadrangles, Utah. Figure 2. Columnor section comparing stratigraphy in the Bingham and South Mountain...STOCKTON AND LOWE PEAK 7 1/2-MINUTE QUADRANGLES, UTAH By Edwin W. looker and Ralph J. Roberts INTRODUCTION...Valley) and Ophir-Dry Canyon mining districts. Mining began in the Stockton district as early as 1864, and in...in the Ophir district, beginning in 1870. These districts have been active sporadically in recent years;
Report (issue)
Igneous Rocks in the Bingham Mining District, Utah GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 629-B Igneous... Igneous Rocks in the Bingham Mining District, Utah By WILLIAM J. MOORE GEOLOGIC STUDIES OF THE BINGHAM...BINGHAM MINING DISTRICT, UTAH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 629-B A petrologic study of intrusive...intrusive and extrusive igneous rocks in a classic mining area UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE...______ Hybrid variants __-.________________ _ Bingham stock ___________________ Dike rocks _________________________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
BiotiteandApatitefroma Vesicular QuartzLatitePorphyryPlugat Bingham,Utah W. T. P^RR¾,G. H. B^LL^XXYXE, ^xr) J. C. W•Lso•...sulfides,quartz, and traces of other mineralsin a vesicularquartz latite dike which intrudesthe quartz monzonitestockin...monzonitestockin the Bingham mine, Utah. Within each of three distinct phasesof the dike, biotite in the...more extensive studiesof the potassiczones at Bingham and at Santa Rita. The hydrothermaI solutionsthat...within the different phasesof the dike and of the Bingham stock appearto indicateseparateevolutionfrom magmaticto
Report (issue)
Intrusive Rock Database for the Digital Geologic Map of Utah C.J. Nutt1 and Steve Ludington2 Open-File Report...about intrusive rocks in Utah that can be linked to the Digital Geologic Map of Utah (Hintze et al., 2000)...000-scale Geologic Map of Utah (Hintze, 1980), can be obtained from the Utah Geological Survey (Map 179DM)...alphabetically and by region. The digital geologic map of Utah (Hintze and others, 2000) classifies intrusive rocks...rock; Ji, Upper to Middle 2 Jurassic granite to quartz monzonite; and pCi, Early Proterozoic to Late Archean
Report (issue)
Stansbury Mountains Wilderness Study Area, Tooele County, Utah U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1745-B :"...Center, Rm. 1C402,12201 Sunrise Valley Dr. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah-Federal Bldg., Rm. 8105,125 South State...Stansbury Mountains Wilderness Study Area, Tooele County, Utah By MICHAEL P. FOOSE and KAREN A. DUTTWEILER...RESOURCES OF WILDERNESS STUDY AREAS NORTHWESTERN UTAH DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR MANUEL LUJAN, JR.,...Stansbury Mountains Wilderness Study Area, Tooele County, Utah / by Michael P. Foose, Karen A. Duttweiler,
Report (issue)
FOR THE OPHIR AND MERCUR 7 1/2-MINUTE QUADRANGLES, UTAH By Edwin W. looker 1 Open-File Report 87-152 ...thrust fault in the Ophir and Mercur quadrangles, Utah....... Figure 2. Generalized stratigraphic section...exposed consolidated sedimentary rocks of the Bingham Sequence (looker and Roberts, 1970)..............FOR THE OPHIR AND MERCUR 7 1/2-MINUTE QUADRANGLES, UTAH By Edwin W. looker INTRODUCTION The adjoining Ophir...Mountains in north-central Utah, and include the Ophir and Mercur mining districts and the neighboring
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Chronologyof Intrusion,Volcanism,and Ore Deposition at Bingham,Utah W. J. MOORE,M. A. LANPHERE,AND J. D. OBRADOVICH...major igneousrock typesin the Binghammining district, Utah, range from 39 to 32 m.y. and suggestthat:...part, postdateemplacement of the Last Chanceand Bingham stocks. (3) Sulfidemineralizationand hydrother............................ 612 612 Summaryof district geology .................... Ore deposits.......56 to 72 m.y. for unalteredintrusiverocksin six mining districts. Thesedatesare thoughtto provide"apparent
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Inc. Economic Geology, v. 105, pp. 69–90 The Bingham Canyon Porphyry Cu-Mo-Au Deposit. II. Vein Geometry...University of Zurich 3 Kennecott Utah Copper, Rio Tinto, Magna, Utah 84044 Abstract Copper, gold, and...and molybdenum in the Bingham Canyon deposit (Utah, United States) show a systematic distribution in grade...spatially and temporally, the emplacement of the quartz monzonite porphyry (QMP), a southwest-northeast−elongated...unoriented vein density data from drill core logging. Quartz stockwork veins, the earliest and most abundant
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,...Mountains, Utah, indicates that hydrothermal fluids associated with emplacement of the 37 Ma Bingham Canyon...Cu-Au-Mo deposit extended at least 10 km north of the Bingham pit. An associated paleothermal anomaly enclosed
 
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