Mine detail: Blue Matrix

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Location

Lat / long:

40.36408, -116.71232

Resource(N)

Primary:	Gemstone
Ore:	Turquoise
Orebody form:	TABULAR TO IRREGULAR
Discovery year:	1939

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:	Slaven Chert
Host type:	Chert
Associated rock:	Elder Sandstone
Associated type:	Quartz Monzonite,Sandstone
Structure:	Deposit In Upper Plate Of Roberts Mtn Thrust, Imbricate Thrusts, High Angle Faults, Capping Elder Sandstone
Alteration processes:	Quartz Monzonite Is Argillically Altered

References

MRDS	M232482
DEP	10103994
Reference	MORRISSEY, F.R., 1968
Reporter	Kirkham, Richard A.