Mine detail: Whiskey Creek-2

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Location: Cotton County, Oklahoma, United States, North America
Lat / long: 34.17345, -98.18839
dep_id: 10021946
mrds_id: DE01736
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Copper
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Stratabound
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Chalcocite, Malachite
gangue: Sandstone
orebody_fm: LENTICULAR
conc_proc: Secondary Water
ore_ctrl: Reducing Environment, Stratigraphic
Reporter: Fay, Robert O.
hrock_unit: Ryan Sandstone
hrock_type: Sandstone
arock_unit: Wellington Formation Or Claypool Formation
arock_type: Mudstone
Structure: Flat, Almost Upon Waurika-Muenster Arch, Striking Nw-Se
tectonic: Interior Basin; Deltaic Red Bed Margin
disc_yr: 1913
discr: Wegemann, Carroll H.
References:
  • 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.
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