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Warsaw Mine group | |
Mining District and MinesOro Blanco District Location?5 Mineral Products6Ag, Au, Cu, Pb, Zn Ownership6Owner Names: Pittsburg, Reich; Huntington, Pyratt, Hack, Anderson, Roxy Mg. Co., Bruce. Type of Operation and Production6Shaft and adit workings. Located in the late 1800's and produced through 1964 some 800 or more tons of ore averaging about 11 oz. Ag/T, 0.2 oz. Au/T, 2% Cu, and 1% Pb. Geology6Lensing quartz vein along a fault zone with pyrite strings and associated disseminated chalcopyrite, galena, and sphalerite, largely oxidised and supergene enriched to chalcocite, covellite, malachite, native silver, embolite and possibly other silver halides. Wall rock at the Warsaw mine is Jurassic diorite while the Reich is an offset section in Jurassic tuff and diorite cut by rhyolite dikes.
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