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Mining District and MinesOro Blanco District Location?5 Mineral Products6Au, Ag, Cu- Ownership6Owner Name: Yellow Jacket Mines Co., Kelso, Reay & Setka, North Star Mines Inc., Type of Operation and Production6Shaft operations. One of the oldest mines of district dating back to the 1800's anf intermittently productive through 1938. Total estimated and recorded production would be some 200 or more tons of ore averaging about 1.5 oz. Au/T, 1.6 oz. Ag/T, and minor Cu. Geology6Lensing quartz vein along a major fault zone containing disseminated pyrite and sparse base metal sulfides, mostly oxidized with supergene enrichment of gold and silver. Wall rock is Jurassic welded tuff cut by rhyolite dikes.
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