Mine detail: Cambrian and New York Mine

Previously called 'Watt Mine'

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Location

Lat / long:

39.54436, -117.04982

Resource(M)

Primary:	Silver
Secondary:	Copper, Lead, Gold
Ore:	Argentite, Cerargyrite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Polybasite, Proustite, Pyrargyrite, Silver, Sphalerite, Stephanite, Stibnite, Tetrahedrite
Gangue:	Calcite, Graphite, Psilomelane, Pyrite, Pyrolusite, Quartz, Rhodochrosite
Discovery year:	1869

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Vein
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer

Geology

Host type:	Quartz Monzonite
Structure:	Fractures, Postmineral Faults
Alteration processes:	Oxidation

References

MRDS	M232889
DEP	10045203
Reference	{Deposit:: STEWART, J.H., MCKEE, E.H., AND STAGER, H.K., 1977, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF LANDER COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 88.}{Deposit:: ROSS, C.P., 1953, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE REESE RIVER DISTRICT, LANDER COUNTY, NEVADA: USGS BULL. 997.}
Reporter	Flynn, Patricia Dodd