Mine detail: Grey Eagle Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

40.37908, -116.7526

Resource(M)

Primary:	Copper, Silver, Gold
Secondary:	Lead, Zinc, Molybdenum, Tungsten
Ore:	Galena, Molybdenite, Powellite, Pyrite, Scheelite, Sphalerite, Stibnite, Tetrahedrite
Gangue:	Quartz, Sericite
Orebody form:	TABULAR
Discovery year:	1875

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Vein
Production size:	Medium
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1875

Geology

Host type:	Diorite
Associated type:	Quartzite
Structure:	Deposit In Upper Plate Of Roberts Mtn. Thrust, Fissures, Intrusion
Alteration processes:	Intrusive Alterred And Replaced By Sericite, Pyrite. Intrusive Pyrometasomatized The Country Rock Locally Producing A Calc-Silicate Skarn, Hornfels And Scheelite, Molybdenite Mineralization

References

MRDS	M232514
DEP	10103996
Reference	{Deposit:: STAGER, H.K. (1977) GEOLOGY & MINERAL RESOURCES OF LANDER CO. NEV, N.B.M. BULL 88}{Deposit:: USBM (WINNTMUCCA) MILS NO 97, REP. NO. 3201500045, MINERAL PROPERTY FILE 37.130}{Deposit:: EMMONS, W.H. (1910) RECON OF MINING DISTRICTS IN ELKO, LANDER, & EUREKA COS., USGS BULL 408}{Production:: EMMONS, W.H., (1910)}
Reporter	Kirkham, Richard A.