Mine detail: Eureka Consolidated

Previously called 'Champion and Buckeye'

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Location

Lat / long:

39.49853, -115.98479

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold, Silver
Tertiary:	Molybdenum, Copper, Iron, Tellurium
Ore:	Anglesite, Galena, Gold, Hematite, Mimetite, Plumbojarosite, Pyrite
Gangue:	Aragonite, Calcite, Malachite, Quartz, Siderite
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR
Discovery year:	1873

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Large
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1873

Geology

Host rock:	Eldorado Dolomite
Host type:	Dolomite
Structure:	Compound Thrust Faults, Perhaps In Front Of Deep Roberts Mountain Thrust Fault To West; Later Block Faulting., Complex Faulting
Alteration processes:	Oxidation To 1000 Ft

References

MRDS	M232359
DEP	10044773
Reference	{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)}
Reporter	Kirkham, Richard A.