Mine detail: Tl Shaft

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

39.51853, -115.99673

Resource(M)

Primary:	Silver, Gold, Lead
Ore:	Bindheimite, Cerargyrite, Gold, Hemimorphite, Mimetite, Plumbojarosite, Smithsonite, Wulfenite
Gangue:	Calcite, Goethite, Quartz
Orebody form:	TABULAR TO IRREGULAR STRATABOUND REPLACEMENT OREBODIES
Discovery year:	1954

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Medium
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1956

Geology

Host rock:	Hamburg Dolomite
Host type:	Dolomite
Associated rock:	Dunderberg Shale
Associated type:	Shale
Structure:	Ruby Hill Thrust, Bowman Normal Fault, North-South Zone Of Faulting & Warping

References

MRDS	M232336
DEP	10111444
Reference	{Deposit:: ROBERTS, MONTGOMERY, & LEHNER (1967) GEOLOGY & MINERAL RESOURCES OF EUREKA COUNTY NEV.,}{Deposit:: NEV. BUREAU OF MINES BULL 64}{Deposit:: U.S.B.M. (ELY) MILS NO 123, REF. NO 3201100087}{Deposit:: NOLAN T.B. (1962) THE EUREKA MINING DISTRICT, NEV., USGS PP. 406}{Deposit:: EUREKA CORPORATION LTD. ANNUAL RPT. 1954. N.B.M. DISTRICT FILE III ITEM 29}{Production:: NOLAN, T.B., (1962)}
Reporter	Kirkham, Richard A.