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Taylor Copper Mine

Past Producer in White Pine county in Nevada, United States with commodities Copper, Tungsten, Gold, 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. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Production statistics
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10047587
MRDS ID M242964
Record type Site
Current site name Taylor Copper Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.0242, 39.26605 (WGS84)
Relative position ADJACENT TO PILOT KNOB, KIMBERLY SITE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Riepetown(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mount Hamilton(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ely(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

White(hydrologic unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada White Pine

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 16N 67E 8 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Tungsten Critical Tertiary
Gold Tertiary
Silver Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcocite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Scheelite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicytion .5% W03

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Skarn (Tactite)
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.0242, 39.26605
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Jointing

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Jointing

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Robinson District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Kennecott Copper Corp

Production statistics

  • Year 1963
    Period 1912-1963
    Material ORE CU
    Accuracy Estimate
    Description Cp_Grade: ^4.46% Cu
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Trace Ore Copper Copper 4wt-pct

Comments on the workings information

  • THE TAYLOR PROPERTY WAS DEVELOPED BY A SHAFT 300 FT DEEP, AND APPROXIMATELY 400 FT OF DRIFT; NOW ARE INACCESSIBLE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SMITH, R.M., 1976, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF WHITE PINE COUNTY NEVADA, NBMG BULL 85.

  • Deposit

    BAUER, H.L. JR., BREITRICK, R.A., COOPER J.J., AND ANDERSON, J.A., 1966, PORPHRY COPPER DEPOSITS IN THE ROBINSON MINING DISTRICT, NV. IN TITLEY, S.R. AND HICKS, C.L. EDS. GEOLOGY OF THE PORPHRY COPPER DEPOSITS, SOUTHWESTERN NORTH AMERICA TUSCON ARIZONA, UNIV. AZ. PRESS, 1966, P. 232-244.

  • Deposit

    BAUER, H.L. JR., BREITRICK, R.A., COOPER, J.J. AND SWINDERMAN, J.N., 1965 ORIGIN OF THE DISSEMINATED ORE IN METAMORPHICAL SEDIMENTARY ROCKS, ROBINSON MINING DISTRICT, NV. AM INST. MINING METALL PETROLEUM ENG. TRANS. V.229 P131-140.

  • Deposit

    JAMES.L. , 1972.

  • Deposit

    SPENCER, A.C., 1917. THE GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF ELY, NV. USGS. PROF PAPER 96.

  • Production

    BAUER ET ALL, 1966

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit QUARTZ, PYRITE, CHALCOPYRITE AND SCHEELITE FILL 1/2 TO 2 INCC FLATLYING JOINTS IN MISSISSIPPIAN PILOT SHALE AND THE CRETACEOUS MONZONITE. THE ORE IS GENETICALLY RELATED TO THE MONZONITE. SOME SUPERGENE ENRICHMENT HAS OCCURRED. THE JOINTING WHICH CONTROLLED ORE DEPOSITION IS PERPENDICULAR TO BEDDING. THE DEPOSIT IS PERIPHERAL TO A BELT OF PORPHRY COPPER DEPOSITS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1988 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

  • Kennecott Copper Corp — acquired by Subsidiary of Rio Tinto (1989)
    Acquired by RTZ (now Rio Tinto) in 1989. Continues to operate the Bingham Canyon mine and other assets under the Kennecott name.

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.

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