Mine detail: Wolf Creek-1

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Location: Comanche County, Oklahoma, United States, North America
Lat / long: 34.60344, -98.44173
dep_id: 10021928
mrds_id: DE01718
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Copper
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Stratabound
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Malachite
gangue: Shale
orebody_fm: SHEET
work_type: Surface
conc_proc: Secondary Water
ore_ctrl: Reducing Environment, Stratigraphic
Reporter: Fay, Robert O.
hrock_unit: Garber Sandstone
hrock_type: Shale
arock_unit: Garber Sandstone
arock_type: Sandstone
Structure: Low Monoclinal Dip Southward, About 10 Ft Per Mile
tectonic: Interior Basin; Deltaic Red Bed Margin
disc_yr: 1936
discr: M.A. Mansur And Haskell C. Woods
References:
  • Deposit:: HAVENS, J.S., 1977, OGS AND USGS, HYDROLOGIC ATLAS 6 (GEOLOGIC MAP)
  • Deposit:: LONGFITT, R.C. WHITY, NOVEMBER 1937, SHEET 042, COMANCHE COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, OGS FILE.
  • Deposit:: MANSUR, M.A., AND WOODS, H.C., JUNE 1936, WPA PROJECT 65-65-538, SHEET 579, COMANCHE COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, OGS FILE.
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