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Copper Deposits of Copper Kettle Canyon

Past Producer in Churchill county in Nevada, United States with commodities Copper, Silver
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Mineral occurrence model information
  10. Host and associated rocks
  11. Nearby scientific data
  12. Geologic structures
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046103
MRDS ID M234032
Record type Site
Current site name Copper Deposits of Copper Kettle Canyon
Alternate or previous names Copper Kettle Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.16986, 39.92073 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 1000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Churchill(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Buena Vista Hills South(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Carson Sink(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Reno(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Carson Desert(hydrologic unit)

Carson(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Lahontan(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management NV)

Bureau of Land Management NV BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Churchill

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
024 034 28 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • SEVERAL MILES UP THE CANYON (CADASTRAL IS FROM MILS) (EXACT LOCATION UNSURE) ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcocite Ore
Copper Ore
Cuprite Ore
Silver Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 59
USGS model code 18b
Deposit model name Skarn Cu
Mark3 model number 8

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.16986, 39.92073
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Igneous Contact

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Contact Of Diorite Porphyry Intruded Into Limestone.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1917
Discoverer J.R. Bunch, Andrew Robert, And Others
Year of first production 1917

Mining district

District name Copper Kettle (C.K.) District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Welsh And Green
    First year 1917

Comments on the workings information

  • SHALLOW WORKINGS.

Comments on development

  • SEVERAL CARLOADS OF ABOUT 30% CU ORE WERE SHIPPED FROM SHALLOW WORKINGS ON A LARGE GROUP OF CLAIMS IN 1917; AND IN 1929, 11 TONS WAS SHIPPED FROM THE COPPER KETTLE MINE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SCHRADER, F.C., 1947, CARSON SINK AREA; U.S.G.S. OPEN-FILE REPORT.

  • Deposit

    VANDERBURG, W.O., 1940, RECONNAISSANCE OF MINING DISTRICTS IN CHURCHILL COUNTY, NEVADA; U.S.B.M. I.C.-7093

  • Deposit

    MILS, 1979, USBM

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1981 La Pointe, D. D. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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