Mine detail: Whiskey Creek-3

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Location

Lat / long:

34.15901, -98.21644

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:	Beds Almost Flat, On Axis Of Waurika-Muenster Arch, Striking Nw-Se.
Tectonic:	Interior Basin; Deltaic Red Bed Margin

References

MRDS	DE01737
DEP	10021947
Reference	{Deposit:: WEGEMANN, C.H., 1915, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 602, 108 P. (P. 63, 102).}{Deposit:: HAVENS, J.S., 1977, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY AND OGS, HYDROLOGIC ATLAS 6.}{Deposit:: FATH, A.E., 1915, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 10, NO. 2, P. 140-150 (P. 142-143).}
Reporter	Fay, Robert O.