The Flying Dutchman Group is a copper mine located in Tooele county, Utah at an elevation of 6,335 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 6,335 Feet (1,931 Meters)
Commodity: Copper
Lat, Long: 39.91944, -112.51750
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Flying Dutchman Group MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Flying Dutchman Group
Secondary: Silver Shield
Commodity
Primary: Copper
Tertiary: Fluorine-Fluorite
Tertiary: Uranium
Tertiary: Manganese
Location
State: Utah
County: Tooele
District: Erickson District
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Form: IRREGULAR MASSES
Structure
Type: L
Description: South Flank Fault (N 45 W)
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Granite
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: AVG. 3 - 5 % C
Materials
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Ore: Fluorite
Ore: Pyrite
Comments
Comment (Commodity): FLUORITE CONTAINS SMALL AMOUNT OF URANINITE.
Comment (Production): PROD 1929 , AMOUNT UNKNOWN
Comment (Deposit): FOUR MAIN FISSURE VEINS
Comment (Workings): TWO INCLINE SHAFT, MINE FLOODED
Comment (Geology): GEOL.DESC: ORDER OF CRYSTALLIZATION: PYRITE, FLUORITE, CHALCOPYRITE, QUARTZ. THE VEINS CAN BE TRACE FROM BURNED CANYON TO FLYING DUTCHMAN MINE.
Comment (Deposit): DEVELOPED WITH COPPER JACK
References
Reference (Deposit): BUTLER,B.S. AND OTHERS, 1920, ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH: USGS PROF. PAPER 111, P. 428.
Reference (Deposit): USBM MIN. RES. 1929; 1930
Reference (Deposit): COHENOUR,R.E., 1959, SHEEPROCK MTNS.: UTAH GEOL. & MIN. SURV., BULL. 63, P. 117.
Reference (Deposit): BULLOCK, K. C., 1976 , FLUORITE OCCURRENCES IN UTAH: UTAH GEOL & MIN SURV BULL 110 , P. 81
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