Davis

Overview

Massive lens, 2-18 m thick, mined 400 m down-dip. Ensimatic island arc. Total size is unknown but estimated by Slack and others (1983) at 0.9 million t of unknown grades. Unpublished grades: 0.7% Cu, 5.6% Zn, 0.015% Pb, 27.8 g/t Ag.

Geological Context

Tectonic Setting: Bimodal-felsic in epicontinental arc

Resources & Operations

Production Start: 1882

Data Provenance

Source: USGS MRDS