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Covellite from
Bingham Canyon Mine, Bingham Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Covellite
Formula:CuS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Covellite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bingham Canyon Mine, Bingham Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:139051
Long-form Identifier:1:3:139051:3
GUID (UUID V4):feae8d1c-46b8-497c-ac66-a25504b537bc
Nearest other occurrences of Covellite
2.6km (1.6 miles) ⓘWest Mountain Prospect, Bingham Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
2.7km (1.7 miles) ⓘQueen Mine (Butterfield Group), Bingham Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
4.0km (2.5 miles) ⓘButterfield South Mines, Bingham Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
4.4km (2.7 miles) ⓘMascotte Tunnel Occurrence, Bingham Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
18.0km (11.2 miles) ⓘKearsarge Mine, Jacob City, Ophir Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
18.3km (11.4 miles) ⓘHidden Treasure Mine, Jacob City, Ophir Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
42.9km (26.6 miles) ⓘSells Mine, Little Cottonwood Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
42.9km (26.7 miles) ⓘCardiff Mine, Mill D South Fork, Big Cottonwood Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
51.0km (31.7 miles) ⓘCopper Apex Tunnel (Kennelly Ground), Silver King Coalition Mine Group, Brighton, Big Cottonwood Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
58.2km (36.2 miles) ⓘPark City Consolidated Mine, Park City Mining District, Summit County, Utah, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
its, Utah,asanExploration Target: HistoryandPre-Excavation Geology Abstract The Bingham mining district...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...contributedto the general knowledgeof basemetal depositsat Bingham. A major lawsuit led to careful studiesof the
Report (issue)
CALITI ES OF UTAH by Kenneth C. Bullock UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY a division of the UTAH DEPARTMENT...JANUARY 1981 MINERALS AND MINERAL LOCALITIES OF UTAH by Kenneth C. Bullock Nature displays her most.... . . . . . 1 Chapter I. Mining Districts of Counties and the State of Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter II. Mining Districts of Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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...Contents: Gold in the Bingham District, Utah / by Edwin W. looker Gold in the Butte District, Montana / by Edwin
Report (issue)
peripheral to porphyry-style mineralization. At Bingham, Utah (Babcock and others, 1995), and Bisbee, Arizona...many porphyry copper deposits (for example, Bingham, Utah), as well as crosscutting porphyry-style mineralization...Alumbrera in Argentina, Grasberg in Indonesia, and Bingham in the United States.    3 Regional Environment...which will vary with the price of copper and local mining costs. At Dos Pobres, Arizona, from the top of...approximately 0.8–1.1 km (West and Aiken, 1982). At Bingham, Utah, the greatest vertical extent of copper ore
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AND BINGHAM WHEN COPPER 'THE DISTRICTS WERE WALLACE W. No. 8 AT BUTTE, CANYON, UTAH, ORES............. PART II. Introduction THE BINGHAM 727 CANYON DISTR‱CT. ......................................................................... Bingham Canyon Ores ........................................723 724 727 BUTTE 734 735 738 738 DISTRICT. THV. BUTTV. DISTRICT. INTRODUCTION. Careful studiesof...the various mines scatt. ered through the Butte district. While engagedin work at and abou‱Butte, the officersof
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
38Fe0.62S4)-Bearing Copper Ore in the Bingham Porphyry Deposit, Utah: Result of Upflow through Quartzite...Cu in quartzite on the northeast contact of the Bingham stock. In contrast with other deposits, where nukundamite...temperature, sericitic assemblages, nukundamite at Bingham is widespread in higher temperature, potassic assemblages...240-m-thick quartzite unit of the Pennsylvanian Bingham Mine Formation, extends 170 m from the northeast...depth by a thrust fault, below which beds of the Bingham Mine Formation are vertical and cut by abundant northeast-striking
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sulfides During Intrusion or Eruption, Bingham and Tintic Districts, Utah WILLIAM J. A. STAVAST,†,* JEFFREY...Department of Geology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602 ADRIENNE LAROCQUE, Department of Geological...R3T 2N2 AND NOREEN EVANS CSIRO Exploration and Mining, P.O. Box 136, North Ryde NSW 1670, Australia ...rocks from the Tertiary Bingham (Cu-Au-Mo) and Tintic (Ag-Pb-Zn-Cu-Au) districts, Utah, were examined to help...for example, in one sill in Castro Gulch, Bingham district, sulfide abundance increases from 9 ppm by
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
fluid inclusions from Butte, Montana and Bingham Canyon, Utah Taras Nahnybida & Sarah A. Gleeson & Brian...porphyry Cu deposits in Butte, Montana, USA and Bingham Canyon, Utah, USA. The leachates mostly represent low-salinity...quartz veins from Bingham Canyon range from 0.18 to 3.68×10−3 M. Br/Cl ratios from Bingham range above and...deposits. In contrast to Butte, ή37Cl values for Bingham are lower, ranging from −0.9‰ to −4.1‰. In the...temperatures, we suggest that the porphyry system at Bingham, and to a lesser extent at Butte, have inherited
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
March/April: Cacoxenite, Dravo quarry, Shelby ‘County, Alabama. Dan Behnke photo. MayIJune: Stibnite...Medal (gold) and gold-and-quartz specimen, Paymaster mine, Timmins, Ontario, Canada. Royal Ontario Museum...beryl, Violet claims, Wah Wah Mountains, Beaver County, Utah. Private collection, Jeffrey Scovil photo. ...329; New Mexico, 109; Utah, 377, 409; West Virginia, 165 Barium-pharmacosiderite, Utah, 41 1 Benton, R.,...180-82 Beryl, Virginia, 237 Beudantite, Utah, 411 Bindheimite, Utah, 41 1 Bismuthinite, New Mexico, 109 Bismutite
Report (issue)
Professional Paper Ill THE ORE ~DEPOSITS OF UTAH BY B. S. BUTLER, G. F. LOUGHLIN, V. C. HEIKES.......................................... ·. .... Lake deposits..........................................81 83 84 84 85 87 87 87 87 THE ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH. By B. S. BuTLER. PART !._:_GENERAL FEATURES. INTRODUCTION...are those on the Mercur district, by J. E. Spurr and S. F. Emmons; the Bingham The senior author, J3.... began district, by J. M. Boutwell, Arthur Keith, and field work on the ore deposits of Utah in the S
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Alterationat Bingham,Utah R. ELDON BRAY Abstract Igneous rocks in the Carr Fork area of Bingham Canyon belong...multipleintrusive Bingham stock,the Last Chancestock,and the Carr Fork dikes. The Bingham stock includes...interpreted to be of the same intrusive system as the Bingham granite stock. The Carr Fork dikes are of three...porphyry and correlatewith porphyritic rocks of the Bingham stock. The methods of eraplacementof the igneous...of the directionand distanceto the centerof the Utah Copperorebody. The alteration products of hornblendeand
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
Book
Editors. SPENCER . . R. TirLey has worked as a mining geologist in the western United States in both...where no maps were available. In southern Yuma County he even discovered and named a whole new range...specific mention are the mapping in southern Yuma County, studies on gold lode and placer deposits, work...Range Province, and work on a number of individual mining districts and on numerous mineral commodities....establish Tucson, Arizona, as the hub of the copper mining industry of the United States. In fact, an inscribed
Book
DVD label: Aerial view of the Bingham Canyon copper mine, Kennecott Utah Copper, September 2003. Photo...Magmatic-Hydrothermal History of the RĂ­o Blanco-Los Bronces District, Central Chile: Development of World’s Greatest...Chuquicamata District, Northern Chile Geologic Overview of the Escondida Porphyry Copper District, Northern...Northern Chile Geology of the Bingham Canyon Porphyry Cu-Mo-Au Deposit, Utah Geology and Exploration Progress...± Molybdenum Deposits of the Ertsberg-Grasberg District, Papua, Indonesia Clyde A. Leys, Mark Cloos,
Report (issue)
GUIDEBOOI( OF NORTHERN UTAH Edited by Mead LeRoy Jensen Kennecott's Bingham Canyon mine, the world's largest...of Utah's fore~ost industry - copper production. UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERALOGICAL SURVEY affiliated with...AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah BULLETIN 82 ‱ PRICE $4.00 ‱ MAY... Norman C. Williams . ‱ 17 PREHISTORIC MAN IN UTAH by fohn P. Marwitt 21 A SUMMARY, References ...View of the deposits of Danger Cave near Wendover Utah . . . . . . . . . . . 2. Cluster of Basketmaker
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of Pennsylvania, Bloomsburg, PA 17815, USA; connorgray@mymail.mines.edu * Correspondence: avanrythov@bloomu...with lesser bornite. Chalcocite, digenite, and covellite are secondary. Potential sources of analytical...An example of a deposit of this scale is Bingham Canyon (Utah), a deposit analyzed in this study, at 2...developing countries, such as Chile where copper mining has contributed an average of 10% of GDP over the...Bethlehem Bethlehem Bingham Canyon Bingham Canyon Butte Butte Butte Cananea Cananea Copper Canyon Florence British
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Economic Geology, v. 105, pp. 91–118 The Bingham Canyon Porphyry Cu-Mo-Au Deposit. III. Zoned Copper-Gold...porphyry Cu-Au(-Mo) ore deposit at Bingham Canyon, Utah. The Bingham Canyon orebody is exposed over ~1.6 km...fluids of variable density and salinity in the Bingham Canyon CuMo-Au deposit (Fig. 1), based on detailed...microanalytical study of fluid inclusions. Bingham Canyon is an exceptionally large and rich deposit...inverted cup and is well exposed in the large open-pit mine and by deep diamond drill holes that have reached
Report (issue)
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH VOL. X DECEMBER. 1919 NO. 11 I~ E THE I MINERAL INDUSTRY OF UTAH I ! ! ~ ~ §§...VARLEY ~ i I ~ ~ ~ ~ == ~ I ~ ~ LETIN No. 12 Utah En.,i,."en. Department of III eta//urgicaJ Research...~ I I! ~ PUBLISHED BY THE ;== JNIVERSITY OF UTAH. STATE SCHOOL OF MINES S !liE I In Co-operation...CENTURY~PRJNTlNG I ) ./ Utah Engineering Experilllent Station The Utah Engineering Experiment Station...Mines, the engineering college of the University of Utah. The station is authorized "to carryon experiments
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the High-Grade Core of the Bingham Canyon Porphyry Cu-Mo-Au Deposit, Utah M. Brodbeck,1,† S. H. McClenaghan...City, Queensland 4000, Australia 3Copper Mountain Mining Corporation, West Vancouver, British Columbia V6C...high-grade zone of the Bingham Canyon Cu-Mo-Au porphyry deposit, Utah. The polyphase Bingham stock comprises...deportment within the world-class Bingham Canyon porphyry Cu-Mo-Au deposit, Utah. We systematically examined...to as the QMP-LP zone by Redmond (2002). The Bingham Canyon deposit has been mined and studied for more
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
v. 103, pp. 759–782 Geology of the Cove Mine, Lander County, Nevada, and a Genetic Model for the McCoy-Cove...Round Mountain, Nevada 89045 AND KEITH JONES Small Mine Development, P.O. Box 251, Battle Mountain, Nevada...Fish Creek Mountains, Lander County, Nevada. Through the end of mining in 2001, large-scale open-pit...southwest of the town of Battle Mountain, Lander County, Nevada (Fig. 1). Through the end of production...large-scale open-pit and associated underground mining at the two deposits yielded 3.3 million ounces
Book (volume)
instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...beds, excavations, etc.ï‚ŸSelenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...ï‚Ÿgray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.ï‚Ÿpetrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE:  area ridges, slopes, stream beds...Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles Eye Tunnel
Book (volume)
what-so-ever. Cover ph o to g ra p h: The Bingham Canyon open pit, Utah, USA, 1998. Photographs by T M Porter...University with a B.Sc. Honours. He completed his PhD in Mining Geology in 1979 at Imperial College, London. His...contributions to economic geology. Stints with Palabora Mining Company, JCI and Anglovaal added to Ross’ southern...After moving to Australia in 】 979, Ross, as a District Manager with CRA Exploration, led the team that...Cheshmeh in Iran, Cananea in Mexico, and Bingham Canyon in the USA (Clark, 1993). This paper reviews the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
alteration, culminating in pyrite ± enargite ± covellite in the shallow parts of the lithocaps. The porphyry...in magmatic arc settings. At the regional and district scales, the occurrence of many deposits in belts...Polley Recsk Highland Valley dist. Rosia Poieni Bingham Island Copper Almalyk Oyu Tolgoi Kounrad Butte...GlobeMiami Ray Mineral Park Saindak Cananea Copper Canyon Chelopech Sepon SierritaEsperanza Red Mountain...the geology of porphyry Cu systems at regional, district, and deposit scales. The resultant geologic model
Report (issue)
INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY CAMPUS STATION SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING Sc TECHNOLOGY............................................... 7 Mining .......................................................................... Petaca mining district, Rio Arriba County ...................................25 25 25 Page Other occurrences, Rio Arriba County ............................................................................... 26 Bromide mining district ..........................................
 
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