Mine detail: Copper Mtn. Group

Previously called 'Including Sherbandy Group'

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Location: Grant County, Oregon, United States, North America
Lat / long: 44.55568, -118.69328
dep_id: 10033078
mrds_id: M014983
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Copper, Cobalt, Gold
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Vein
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Cobaltite, Limonite, Malachite, Pyrite
gangue: Beidellite, Quartz, Sericite, Tourmaline
alteration: Tourmaline - Quartz - Chalcopyrite Replacement Bodies In Greenstone
ore_ctrl: Slightly Controlled By Fault Fractures, Although More Intense Mineralization Seem Independent Of Such Control.
Reporter: Lee, W., Bradley, Robin (Walker, George W.), Gray, Jerry J.
hrock_type: Andesite
arock_type: Diorite
References:
  • Deposit:: OREGON METAL MINES HANDBOOK, 1941 , ODGMI, BULL 14 - B, P. 112 .
  • Deposit:: GILLULY, J., REED, J. C., AND PARKS, C. F. JR, 1933 , SOME MINING DISTRICTS OF EASTERN OREGON: U.S.G.S. BULL. 846 - A, P. 99 .
  • Deposit:: JOHNSON, F.R., 1975, GEOLOGY OF THE QUARTZBURG MINING DISTRICT, GRANT COUNTY, OREGON, OREGON STATE UNIV. MS. THESIS, P. 83
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