Post by 1dave on May 19, 2023 3:33:37 GMT -5
In the 1800's miners panned Gold in Midas Gulch.
Midas Creek flows east into Salt Lake City between South Jordan and Riverton. It has been diverted into canals so it no longer flows into the Jordan River.
The Bingham Canyon mine became the largest man-made excavation, and deepest open-pit mine in the world. It has produced more copper than any other mine in history – more than 17,000,000 tons! Bingham is the most productive mining district in the U.S. and ranks as the top copper, second largest gold, third largest silver, third largest molybdenum, and fifth largest lead producing district in the United states.
The mine has been in production since 1906. Every year, for over 50 years, Kennecott has produced over 250,000 tons of copper, 400,000 troy ounces of gold, 4 million troy ounces of silver, and 9,000 tons molybdenum. Lead and zinc amounts were not reported.
As of 2004, its ore yielded more than 17 million tons of copper, 23 million ounces of gold, 190 million ounces of silver, and 850 million pounds of molybdenum.
The value of the resources extracted from the Bingham Canyon Mine is greater than the Comstock Lode, Klondike, and California gold rush mining regions combined.
Before 1965 there was only one possible answer, Volcanoes.
After 1965 there was another possibility. Impact - BUT they explode, make a huge crater and blast any possible wealth worldwide., so again unthinkable.
Let’s reexamine that first possibility. Where would a volcano get such a wide variety of elements? Remember this chart?
The Earth was never a wealthy planet. We do not live in a wealthy solar system. Space is not a wealthy place.
Only a few huge stars have erupted and showered their surrounding area with those unusual elements.
The Salt Lake Area has always been a common area. A basalt basement. Four billion years of sediment. Limestone, sandstone, limestone, more sandstone.
Then one hundred million years ago there was a great change - the Sevier Orogeny.
The land buckled up into anticlines and synclines, whole rock layers were metamorphosed, limestone compressed into marble, sandstone compressed into quartzite. Rocks were shattered and fractured. Those fractures were stuffed with copper, lead, zinc, gold, silver, molybdenum.
The old "volcano" explanation no longer rings true.
Midas Creek flows east into Salt Lake City between South Jordan and Riverton. It has been diverted into canals so it no longer flows into the Jordan River.
The Bingham Canyon mine became the largest man-made excavation, and deepest open-pit mine in the world. It has produced more copper than any other mine in history – more than 17,000,000 tons! Bingham is the most productive mining district in the U.S. and ranks as the top copper, second largest gold, third largest silver, third largest molybdenum, and fifth largest lead producing district in the United states.
The mine has been in production since 1906. Every year, for over 50 years, Kennecott has produced over 250,000 tons of copper, 400,000 troy ounces of gold, 4 million troy ounces of silver, and 9,000 tons molybdenum. Lead and zinc amounts were not reported.
As of 2004, its ore yielded more than 17 million tons of copper, 23 million ounces of gold, 190 million ounces of silver, and 850 million pounds of molybdenum.
The value of the resources extracted from the Bingham Canyon Mine is greater than the Comstock Lode, Klondike, and California gold rush mining regions combined.
The question is Where Did All of those unusual Elements Come From?
Before 1965 there was only one possible answer, Volcanoes.
After 1965 there was another possibility. Impact - BUT they explode, make a huge crater and blast any possible wealth worldwide., so again unthinkable.
Let’s reexamine that first possibility. Where would a volcano get such a wide variety of elements? Remember this chart?
The Earth was never a wealthy planet. We do not live in a wealthy solar system. Space is not a wealthy place.
Only a few huge stars have erupted and showered their surrounding area with those unusual elements.
The Salt Lake Area has always been a common area. A basalt basement. Four billion years of sediment. Limestone, sandstone, limestone, more sandstone.
Then one hundred million years ago there was a great change - the Sevier Orogeny.
The land buckled up into anticlines and synclines, whole rock layers were metamorphosed, limestone compressed into marble, sandstone compressed into quartzite. Rocks were shattered and fractured. Those fractures were stuffed with copper, lead, zinc, gold, silver, molybdenum.
The old "volcano" explanation no longer rings true.