Geology of the Buckingham stockwork molybdenum deposit and surrounding area, Lander County, Nevada /
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| Format: | Government Document eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Washington :
U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey,
1992.
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| Series: | Geological Survey professional paper ;
798-D. Geochemistry of the porphyry copper environment in the Battle Mountain mining district, Nevada. |
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| Online Access: | https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo92156 |
| Item Description: | Title from title screen (viewed October 14, 2014). "With a section on Potassium-argon and p40sAr/p39sAr geochronology of selected plutons in the Buckingham area, by Edwin H. McKee and a section on Economic geology, by Thomas A. Loucks and Craig A. Johnson and a section on Supergene copper deposits at Copper Basin, by David W. Blake and a section on -- Mineral chemistry of Late Cretaceous and Tertiary skarns, by Jane M. Hammarstrom." "The Buckingham stockwork molybdenum deposit, a Late Cretaceous calc-alkaline system, is estimated to contain more than 1,000 million tons of mineralized rock averaging 0.10 weight percent Mo (MoS2) and containing small amounts of silver, tungsten, copper, and gold." |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 307 pages) : illustrations, maps + 2 plates. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |