Wedge

Deposit with commodities copper, gold

More information at and near this site: Re-NV00125

About this location

Feature ID Re-Mo00450
Geographic coordinates -114.954711, 39.263851
Point definition Gold resource
Reference Davis and others (2006); Map 149, Inset A
Date: 2006; Scale: Small (<1:250,000)

Geologic information

Commodities copper; gold (1)
Valuable materials chalcocite
Age of mineralization 111-109 Ma (2)
Host lithologies porphyry; shale; limestone
Reference Bauer, H.L., Breitrick, R.A., Copper, J.J., and Anderson, J.A., 1966, Porphyry Copper Deposits in the Robinson Mining District, Nevada in Titley, S.R., and Hicks, C.L., 1966, Geology of the Porphyry Copper Deposits: Southwestern North America: Tucson, University of Arizona Press, p. 233-244.
Additional references (1) Davis and others (2006); (2) Singer and others (2008)

Deposit models and geoenvironmental models

Type Model Reference
Deposit model Porphyry Cu Bauer, H.L., Breitrick, R.A., Copper, J.J., and Anderson, J.A., 1966, Porphyry Copper Deposits in the Robinson Mining District, Nevada in Titley, S.R., and Hicks, C.L., 1966, Geology of the Porphyry Copper Deposits: Southwestern North America: Tucson, University of Arizona Press, p. 233-244.
Geoenvironmental model Porphyry Cu du Bray, E.A., 1995, ed., Preliminary compilation of descriptive geoenvironmental mineral deposit models: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-831, 272 p.

Geographic context based on the point coordinates