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Deposit with commodities copper, tungsten

More information at and near this site: Re-NV00125

About this location

Feature ID Re-Mo00449
Geographic coordinates -115.032866, 39.264186
Point definition Location from map
Reference Stager and Tingley (1988); Page 205
Date: 1988; Scale: Small (<1:250,000)

Geologic information

Commodities copper; tungsten
Valuable materials chalcopyrite; scheelite; chalcocite
Associated materials quartz; pyrite
Age of mineralization 111-109 Ma (1)
Host unit name Pilot Shale
Host lithologies shale
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)

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.

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