Bingham — SALT LAKE County

Source: Tom Ashworth's Prospectors Cache (tomashworth.com / Tom Ashworth). Author: Tom Ashworth. Original page: salt_lake_ut.shtml. Area: Bingham. Map coordinates refined from text (area: "Bingham, SALT LAKE County, Utah, USA"). Still approximate — verify on the ground. Bingham is located in the West Mountain district on the east slope of the Oquirrh Range and is the leading mining district in Utah and the forth largest in the United States. Gold was discovered here in 1863. In Bingham Canyon, the entire length (including Bear Gulch to its head) produced rich placer gravels. Most of the area has productive placers in all tributary streams. In all neighboring canyons gravel can be found on walls high and dry above the present streams and they all contain gold. In Middle Bingham Canyon on Argonaut, Dixon, Cherikino, and upper Clays ground there are productive placer deposits. In Carr Fork, The Gardella Pit, was a rich placer deposit. In Lower Bingham Canyon, the St. Louis, Lashbrook, and Schenk placer were all very productive. The rim deposits, in the Old Channel , Clays, and Mayberry placer workings were also very rich. In the West Mountain and Bingham Placers the workings in Deep gravels were also very rich. Along Damphool Gulch, is another rich placer deposit, you will find angular gold, nuggets to a very large size. At the mouth of Damphool Gulch there were some very rich deposits the were worked by shafts to work the deep bedrock. The West Jordan Claim, in Bingham Canyon, was the original discovery site for the placer gold. The district is estimated to have produced over 1,000,000 ounces of placer gold. The Highland Boy mine led to the original discovery of pyritic copper ores that produced a by product of gold.