Mine detail: Aunt Ethel Prospect

Previously called 'Iron Mountain GroupShoot Claim'

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Location

Lat / long:

39.00436, -117.93012

Resource(M)

Tertiary:	Lead, Silver, Copper
Gangue:	Limonite
Orebody form:	SMALL SEAMS

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Vein
Production size:	None
Development status:	Occurrence

Geology

Host type:	Clastic Sedimentary Rock
Associated type:	Rhyolite
Structure:	A Northeast Striking Five Foot Thick Shear Zone.
Alteration processes:	Cerussite Coatings On Galena; Secondary Copper Minerals Stain Some Rock

References

MRDS	M231630
DEP	10044253
Reference	{Deposit:: KRAL, V.E., 1951, MINERAL RESOURCES OF NYE CO.: NEV. BUR. OF MINES AND GEOL., BULL. 50, P. 99}{Deposit:: KLEINHAMPL, F.J. AND ZIONY, J.I., GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF NORTHERN NYE CO.: NEV. BUR. OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, BULLETIN, IN PRESS.}
Reporter	Wong, George (Roberts, Ralph), La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.)