Mine detail: Kansas Mine

Previously called 'Kansas Claims'

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Location

Lat / long:

39.60187, -114.56669

Resource(B)

Primary:	Copper, Silver
Secondary:	Gold, Lead
Tertiary:	Iron, Sulfur
Ore:	Actinolite, Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Lead, Malachite
Gangue:	Epidote, Garnet
Orebody form:	POCKETS
Other material:	Hematite, Magnetite, Pyrite
Discovery year:	1882

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer

Geology

Host type:	Limestone
Associated type:	Granite
Structure:	Fissures, Faults, Dikes
Alteration processes:	Silication Of Limestone Along Dikes.

References

MRDS	M031202
DEP	10111425
Reference	{Deposit:: HILL, JAMES M, 1916 NOTES ON SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN EASTERN NEVADA, US GEO. BULL. 648}{Deposit:: HOSE, R. K., BLAKE, M. C. JR., AND SMITH R., 1976 GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF WHITE PINE COUNTY, NEV. BUREAU OF MINES BULL 85}{Deposit:: NBMG DISTRICT FILE 322, ITEM 1.}{Deposit:: USBM,1983, MILS DATA}
Reporter	Giorgi, Albert John (Roberts, Ralph), La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.)