Mine detail: Duplex Mine

Previously called 'Ixl Copper Claim'

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Location: Clark County, Nevada, United States, North America
Lat / long: 35.46001, -114.92193
dep_id: 10046990
mrds_id: M242225
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Silver, Lead, Gold
Minor mineral: Copper, Zinc
Trace mineral: Molybdenum
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Vein
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Calamine, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Limonite, Wulfenite
gangue: Hemimorphite, Mottramite
orebody_fm: TABULAR
work_type: Surface
model: 85: Polymetallic veins
conc_proc: Weathering And Leaching
ore_ctrl: Regional Fracturing In Less Competent Rocks Around The Border Of The Quartz Monzonite Body.
Reporter: La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.), Lyles, B.F. (Tingley, J.V.)
hrock_type: Andesite
arock_type: Andesite
Structure: Normal Faults (Fault Horses Occur Within The Vein)
Year first produced: 1898
disc_yr: 1897
discr: G.F. Colton (Located As The Ixl Copper Mine Origenally)
References:
  • Deposit:: CALLAGHAM, E, 1939, GEOLOGY OF THE SEARCHLIGHT DIST., CLARK CO., NEV., USGS BULL 906-D, P. 165-172.
  • Deposit:: LONGWELL, C.R., 1965, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF CLARK CO., NEVNEV. BUREAU OF MINES BULL 62, PQ. 201.
  • Deposit:: RANSOME, R.L., 1907, PRELIMINARY ACCOUNT OF GOLDFIELD, BULLFROG AND OTHE MINING DIST. INC SOUTHERN NEVADA, USGS BU.. 303, P.72.
  • Deposit:: TINGLEY, J.V., 1983, FIELD OBSERVATION, NBMG, 4/27/83
  • Deposit:: SCHILLING, J., 1962, NBMG REPORT 2.
  • Production:: CALLAGHAM, E., 1939, GEOLOGY OF THE SEARCHLIGHT DIST, CLARK CO., NEV., USGS BULL 906-D, P. 170-171.
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