BINGHAM 8 BRIGHT OUTLOOK bingham mining district prom s to bo largest bullion producer t utah and of the west the m bense deposits of low grado copper now being worked at a profit aavo opened a field wherein thousands miners and smelter men will nd A careful care tul scientific study of the ecology pt the district las been mad 9 by government experts ind although they found the structure t ho mineralized to bo anex intricate after four years ot i aft 1 Investigation they have been ablo to issue a publication tracing the entire geological history of the district in the report of boutwell emmons and keith who examined the formation mr boutwell gives the opinion that between and late tertiary almo monon lUc invaded sediments in the bangham area metamorphosed them and introduced metallic elements which replaced limestone with copper sulphide later heated aqueous solutions introduced additional metallic elemente elc mente auch as copper gold and sulphur silver lead ore was deposited an the northeast south west fissures mainly by filling partly by replacement this second period of these original ores havo been altered in upper portions by surface waturs 0 o carbonates and dioxides and relatively enriched in their underlying portions through replacement by black copper sulphide with additional gold and sll her probably as telluride mr boutwell believes that geological indications and recent developments are favorable 0 o the future of the mining industry in this district they show that it is reasonable to expect that new shoots of valuable copper sulphate ore will be found in the great lime stones in central localities and that new lodes of rich lead ore will be discovered in the composite country rock about the head of bingham canyon and in or adjacent to the calcareous carbonaceous shale northwest of bingham canyon and carr pork furthermore recent mining developments have increased the known resources of two types ot copper deposits first by indicating that the values in the great copper shoots descend in depth second by proving that the disseminated low grade auriferous copper ores in can be milled at a profit these facts in a probable regular increase in the output in the immediate future and imply the continued prosperity of the mining industry of bangham bangham Is the oldest and largest copper producing camp in utah it Is situated in the north central part of the state in tha mountains twenty miles southwest of salt lake city the main slopes of the which rise steeply from elevations of about feet on tha surrounding deserts to elevations of feet on the main divide are deeply dissected by many narrow steep walled canyons toward the northern end of the range is a prominent canyon which follows a course northeastward across its eastern slope and receives several tributary canyons from the west this Is bingham canyon which has gives its name to the min ang district its drainage basin embraces tho principal mining localities which constitute the bingham district an oblong area of about 21 square miles this region has been the center of a complex succession of geological activities which have resulted in the oi valuable ore bodies the sedimentary country rock has suffered extensive intrusion intense and partial burial beneath a flow the ora bodies are centered in the localities which have undergone the most intense intrusion and ing outside the limits of the comparatively ively scalp area that is characterized by the combined effects of these several activities ore deposits have not been found present output consists almost entirely of low grade copper ore with comparatively small amounts of enriched high grade black copper sulphide ore and of rich lead ore tha immense bodies of copper ore occur as beds in metamorphosed limestone adjacent ta and fissures the rich isad ores occur in strong northeast fissures the dally output of the camp Is about 2000 tons which is produced almost entirely by five great consolidated properties located upon a belt of limestone in 1900 the district produced only a little over tons of ore in 1904 it is reported to hay had an output oi nearly tons of copper ore alone its total output from to leol Is valued at about