Mine detail: Yankee Blade Claims

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Location

Lat / long: 39.54548, -117.04871

Resource(M)

Primary: Silver
Secondary: Gold
Ore: Argentite, Cerargyrite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Polybasite, Proustite, Pyrargyrite, Silver, Sphalerite, Stephanite, Stibnite
Gangue: Ankerite, Calcite, Graphite, Pyrite, Pyrolusite, Quartz, Rhodochrosite

Production

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

Geology

Host type:Quartzite
Structure:Fractures, Postmineral Faults
Alteration processes:Oxidation

References

MRDSM232949
DEP10045254
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, THE GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE REESE RIVER DISTRICT, LANDER COUNTY, NEVADA: USGS BULL. 997.}{Deposit:: HUGHES, H.H., 1955, CONFIDENTIAL REPORT ON THE AUSTIN, NEVADA PROPERTIES OF HERCULES MINES COMPANY (UNPUB.): NBMG FILES.}
ReporterFlynn, Patricia Dodd