Mine detail: Initial Rock

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Location: Garvin County, Oklahoma, United States, North America
Lat / long: 34.82928, -97.24753
dep_id: 10021957
mrds_id: DE01748
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Copper
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Barite, Chalcocite, Copper, Malachite
gangue: Sandstone
orebody_fm: CHANNEL
work_type: Surface
conc_proc: Secondary Water
ore_ctrl: Reducing Environment, Stratigraphic Channel
Reporter: Fay, Robert O.
hrock_unit: Garber Sandstone, Basal 5-10 Ft
hrock_type: Sandstone
arock_unit: Garber Sandstone
arock_type: Shale
Structure: Monoclinal Low Westward Dip, About 0.5 Degrees W.
tectonic: Interior Basin; Deltaic Red Bed Margin
disc_yr: 1929
prod_yrs: BEFORE 1929
discr: A.C. Shead And C.W. Honess
References:
  • Deposit:: SHEAD, A.C., 1929, OGS BULLETIN 14, 138 P. (P. 28, 85).
  • Deposit:: HART, D.L., JR., 1974, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY AND OGS, HYDROLOGIC ATLAS 3.
  • Deposit:: STROUD, R.B., MCMAHAN, A.B., STROUP, R.K., AND HIBPSHMAN, M.H., 1970, U.S. BUREAU OF MINES REPORT OF INVESTIGATIONS 7422, 103 P. (P. 38).
  • Deposit:: MERRITT, C.A., AND HAM, W.E., JUNE 25, 1940, OGS SHEET 345, GARVIN CO., OKLAHOMA
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