Mine detail: Julie Shaft

Previously called 'Copper Canyon Mine Lead-Zinc Orebody:Hornfels Orebody'

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Location

Lat / long: 40.53101, -117.13956

Resource(B)

Primary: Silver, Lead, Zinc
Secondary: Gold, Copper
Tertiary: Sulfur, Iron
Ore: Chalcopyrite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite
Gangue: Barite, Calcite, Quartz, Siderite
Orebody form: IRREGULAR
Discovery year: 1941

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1948

Geology

Host rock:Battle Formation
Host type:Hornfels,Conglomerate
Associated type:Quartz Monzonite
Structure:Thrust Fault At Depth, Virgin & Mill Faults, N-S, Dip 65 W; Other Faults. The West Fault, Trends Nw And Forms The Nw Boundary Of The Hornfels Orebody As This Fault Contains Primary Sulfides, It May Have Been The Channel For Mineralizing Fluids Which Formed The Hornfels Orebody
Alteration processes:Propylitic, Pyritic

References

MRDSM231348
DEP10044030
Reference{Deposit:: ROBERTS, R.J., AND ARNOLD, D.C., 1965 ORE DEPOSITS OF THE ANTLER PEAK QUADRANGLE, HUMBOLDT AND LANDER COUNTIES, NEVADA: U.S.G.S. PROF PAPER 459-B}{Deposit:: TRENGROVE, R.R., 1951, INVESTIGATION OF COPPER CANYON LEAD-ZINC DEPOSIT, LANDER CO NEVADA: U.S.B.M. REPT. INV. 4774}
ReporterLa Pointe, D.D.