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U-Pb Dating of Zircon and ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar Dating of Biotite at Bingham, Utah

W. T. Parry

Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0111

Paula N. Wilson

Department of Geology and Geophysics, and Utah Museum of Natural History, 1460 East 135 South Room 719, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0111

D. Moser

Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0111

Matthew T. Heizler

New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, New Mexico 87801

Corresponding author: e-mail, bparry{at}mines.utah.edu

Uranium-lead dating of zircon and ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dating of biotite provide a new estimate of the age of the Bingham hydrothermal system. The U-Pb age of zircon from the Last Chance monzonite establishes the age of crystallization of this intrusion at 38.55 ± 0.19 Ma (2, MSWD = 2.08). The oldest hydrothermal event in the monzonite is dated at 38.40 ± 0.16 Ma and is based on a ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar determination plateau age of primary igneous biotite. This age is indistinguishable from the U-Pb zircon age of emplacement of the monzonite. Petrographic and fluid inclusion data show that the biotite-bearing sample was propylitically altered at ~400°C, which would reset the ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar age within ~115 ka. Thus the concordance of the biotite age with the intrusion age of the monzonite suggests that propylitic alteration was essentially contemporaneous with monzonite emplacement. The ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar ages from three hydrothermal biotites sampled within the 0.35 percent Cu isopleth in the monzonite overlap within uncertainty and indicate that potassic alteration in monzonite occurred at 37.57 ± 0.11 Ma. The youngest hydrothermal activity is identified from a biotite sample (37.07 ± 0.21 Ma correlation age) in potassically altered quartz monzonite porphyry within the central MoS₂ zone. Hydrothermal biotite within the Bingham deposit was produced over a time period of approximately 0.50 ± 0.32 Ma.

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