Deposit with commodities copper
More information at and near this site: Re-NV00125
| Feature ID | Re-Mo00448 |
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| Geographic coordinates | -115.017101, 39.250617 |
| Point definition | Mine location from plate |
| Reference | Hose and others (1976); Plate 2 Date: 1970; Scale: Small (<1:250,000)
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| Commodities | copper |
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| Valuable materials | delafossite; native copper; cuprite; azurite; malachite |
| Associated materials | halloysite clay |
| Age of mineralization | 111-109 Ma (1) |
| Host unit name | Riepe Spring Limestone; Ely Limestone |
| Host lithologies | limestone |
| Alteration | oxidized |
| 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 | 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. |