Mine detail: Homestake Mine

Previously called 'Jaguar Mine'

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Location

Lat / long: 31.42097, -110.74289

Resource(M)

Primary: Lead
Secondary: Copper, Silver, Gold, Zinc
Ore: Galena, Sphalerite
Orebody form: TABULAR

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1940
Last production ended: 1940

Geology

Host type:Quartz Monzonite
Associated type:Diorite,Hornblendite
Structure:E-W And Ne Trending Quartz Veins And Associated Bands Of Crushed Mineralized Rock In Fault Fissures Cutting Diorite And Quartz Monzonite, Vein Strikes Into Steep Hillside Of Monzonite; 1/2 Mile West Of Paymaster Jackalo Vein (Major Ne-Trending Fissure Vein)
Alteration processes:Surface Oxidaton To 50 Ft Depth

References

MRDSM899909
DEP10088913
Reference{Deposit:: USBM-ABGMT PRODUCTION FILE DATA.}{Deposit:: USBM FILE DATA-CLUSTER #27, HOMESTAKE MINE.}{Deposit:: ADMR FILE DATA-HOMESTAKE MINE.}{Deposit:: ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILE, HOMESTAKE MINE.}{Deposit:: SIMONS, F.S., 1974, GEOLOGIC MAP AND SECTIONS OF THE NOGALES AND LOCHIEL QUADRANGLES, SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, ARIZONA: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MAP I-762 (1:48000).}{Deposit:: ABGMT FILES, STANTON B. KEITH.}
ReporterLaraba, Peter (Calder, Susan)