Mine detail: Defiance Mine

Previously called 'Defiance Prospect'

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Location: White Pine County, Nevada, United States, North America
Lat / long: 39.60632, -114.5678
dep_id: 10037243
mrds_id: M031203
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Copper, Tungsten
Minor mineral: Gold, Silver, Lead
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Chrysocolla, Copper, Malachite, Scheelite
gangue: Epidote, Garnet, Iron, Pyrite
orebody_fm: IRREGULAR
model: 59: Skarn Cu
alteration: Oxidation
conc_proc: Oxidation
ore_ctrl: Fissure, E Trending, Dips 45 Deg Sbedding Plane Fault Strikes N And Dips 20w.
Reporter: Giorgi, Albert John (Roberts, Ralph), La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.)
hrock_type: Limestone
arock_type: Limestone
Structure: Fault
disc_yr: 1882
discr: Mr. Noe
References:
  • Deposit:: HILL, JAMES M, 1916 NOTES ON SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN EASTERN NEVADA, US GEO. BULL. 648
  • Deposit:: HOSE R. K., BLAKE M. C., AND SMITH R., 1976, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF WHITE PINE COUNTY, NEV. BUREAU OF MINES, BULL. 85
  • Deposit:: STAGER, H.K., IN PREPARATION, NBMG BULL ON TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF NEVADA.
  • Deposit:: USBM, 1983 MILS DATA.
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