Deposit with commodities copper, tellurium, rhenium
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| Feature ID | Re-Mo00356 |
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| Geographic coordinates | -114.957891, 39.260273 |
| Point definition | Approximate center of polygon |
| Polygon definition | Copper deposit |
| Reference | Hardy and others (2009); Figure 9.1 Date: 2009; Scale: Medium (1:24,000-1:250,000)
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| Commodities | copper; tellurium; rhenium |
|---|---|
| Valuable materials | chalcocite; chalcopyrite |
| Associated materials | pyrite |
| Age of mineralization | 111-109 Ma (1) |
| Host lithologies | hornfels; porphyry |
| 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) Singer and others (2008) |
| Type | Model | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| Deposit model | Porphyry Cu | Singer, D.A., Mosier, D.L., and Cox, D.P., 1986, Grade and Tonnage Model of Porphyry Cu in Cox, D.P., and Singer, D.A., 1986, Mineral deposit models: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1693, p. 77-81. |
| 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. |
| Dates | Status | Detail | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 to 1970 | Discovery | Discovery of additional resources | Hardy and others (2009) |