Mine detail: Eureka Consolidated

Previously called 'Champion and Buckeye'

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Location: Eureka County, Nevada, United States, North America
Lat / long: 39.49853, -115.98479
dep_id: 10044773
mrds_id: M232359
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Gold, Silver
Trace mineral: Molybdenum, Copper, Iron, Tellurium
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Large ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Anglesite, Galena, Gold, Hematite, Mimetite, Plumbojarosite, Pyrite
gangue: Aragonite, Calcite, Malachite, Quartz, Siderite
orebody_fm: IRREGULAR
work_type: Underground
model: 72: Polymetallic replacement
alteration: Oxidation To 1000 Ft
conc_proc: Hydrothermal Replacement. Oxidation Of Sulfides.
ore_ctrl: Fractured, Permeable Zones; Ruby Hill Thrust
Reporter: Kirkham, Richard A.
hrock_unit: Eldorado Dolomite
hrock_type: Dolomite
Structure: Compound Thrust Faults, Perhaps In Front Of Deep Roberts Mountain Thrust Fault To West; Later Block Faulting., Complex Faulting
Year first produced: 1873
dy_ba: <
disc_yr: 1873
References:
  • Deposit:: ROBERTS ET AL (1967) GEOLOGY & MINERAL RESOURCES OF EUREKA CO. NEV, N.B. OF M. BULL 64
  • Deposit:: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES (ELY) MILS NO 119, REFERENCE NO 3201100096
  • Deposit:: NOLAN T.B. (1962) THE EUREKA MINING DISTRICT, NEV. USGS P.P. 406
  • Deposit:: CRIB FILE
  • Production:: NOLAN, T.B., (1962)
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