Deposit with commodities copper
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| Feature ID | Re-Mo00358 |
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| Geographic coordinates | -114.998793, 39.257132 |
| 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 |
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| Valuable materials | chalcopyrite; bornite (1); chalcocite (1) |
| Associated materials | pyrite; quartz; kaolinite; muscovite; biotite; leucoxene (1); sanidine-orthoclase (1) |
| Mineralization style | grains; veinlets |
| Age of mineralization | 111-109 Ma (2) |
| Host unit name | Chainman Shale; Ely Limestone; Rib Hill Sandstone |
| Host lithologies | shale; limestone; sandstone; rhyolite; breccia; monzonite porphyry |
| Reference | Fournier, R.O., 1967, The Porphyry Copper Deposit Exposed in the Liberty Open-Pit Mine near Ely, Nevada. Part 1. Syngenetic Formation: Economic Geology, Volume 62, p. 57-81. |
| Additional references | (1) Fournier (1967b); (2) Singer and others (2008) |
| Type | Model | Reference |
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| 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. |