Mine detail: Whiskey Creek-2

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Location

Lat / long:

34.17345, -98.18839

Resource(M)

Primary:	Copper
Ore:	Chalcocite, Malachite
Gangue:	Sandstone
Orebody form:	LENTICULAR
Discovery year:	1913

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Stratabound
Production size:	None
Development status:	Occurrence

Geology

Host rock:	Ryan Sandstone
Host type:	Sandstone
Associated rock:	Wellington Formation Or Claypool Formation
Associated type:	Mudstone
Structure:	Flat, Almost Upon Waurika-Muenster Arch, Striking Nw-Se
Tectonic:	Interior Basin; Deltaic Red Bed Margin

References

MRDS	DE01736
DEP	10021946
Reference	{Deposit:: WEGEMANN, C.H., 1915, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 602, 108 P. (P. 71, 102).}{Deposit:: HAVENS, J.S., 1977, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY AND OGS, HYDROLOGIC ATLAS 6.}
Reporter	Fay, Robert O.