Mine detail: Granite Mountain Drill Site 101

Previously called 'NBMG Sample Site 2332'

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Location

Lat / long:

40.29546, -117.77846

Resource(M)

Primary:	Copper, Molybdenum
Secondary:	Silver
Tertiary:	Manganese
Ore:	Chalcopyrite, Molybdenite
Gangue:	Clay, Pyrite, Sericite
Orebody form:	DISSEMINATED
Discovery year:	1975

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	None
Development status:	Occurrence

Geology

Host type:	Diorite
Associated type:	Diorite
Structure:	Major Structural Boundary In Upper Mantle Extending E-W
Tectonic:	Nevada Basin And Range Province
Alteration processes:	Pervasive Potassium Metasomatism; Weak Propylitic Alteration

References

MRDS	M242667
DEP	10047378
Reference	{Deposit:: BOWES, W.A.; KUTINA, JAN; FREDRIKSSON, KURT; GOLIGHTLY, D.W., 1982: GLOBAL TECTONICS AND METALLOGENY, VOL. 1, NO. 4. P. 402-439.}{Deposit:: JUMAS, A.P., 1982; GLOBAL TECTONICS AND METALLOGENY, VOL. 1, NO. 4, P. 356-372.}{Deposit:: THURBER, J.E., 1982, PETROLOGY AND CU-MO MINMERALIZATION OF THE KENNEDY STOCK, EASTRANGE, PERSHING CO., NV: M.S. THESIS, COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY, FORT COLLINS.}{Deposit:: GARSIDE, L.J., 13 SEP 84, NBMG FIELD EXAMINATION AND SAMPLE ANALYSIS.}{Deposit:: USGS, 1980, USGS OFR 80-715.}
Reporter	La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.), Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.)