Mine detail: Six Shooter Canyon

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

41.25242, -114.04086

Resource(M)

Tertiary:	Copper
Ore:	Malachite
Gangue:	Epidote, Marble, Pyrite, Serpentine
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR TO TABULAR

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:	Laketown Dolomite
Host type:	Limestone,Dolomite
Associated rock:	Monzonite Porphyry Stock
Associated type:	Monzonite
Tectonic:	Miogeosyncline
Alteration processes:	Marbleization, Epidotization

References

MRDS	DB02042
DEP	10094751
Reference	{Deposit:: BLUE, D. M., 1960 , GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE LUCIN MINING DISTRICT, BOX ELDER COUNTY, UTAH AND ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA: UNIV. OF UTAH MS THESIS.}{Deposit:: DOELLING, H. H., IN PREPARATION, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF BOX ELDER COUNTY, UTAH: UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY BULLETIN.}{Deposit:: 1973 MINEMAP UTAH GEOL. & MINERAL SURVE}{Reserve-Resource:: DOELLING, H. H., 1979 , UTAH GEOL. AND MINERALOG. SURVEY ON-SITE INVESTIGATION.}
Reporter	Doelling, Hellmut H.