Oxec

Overview

Massive, dissemination, stockwork, long and narrow, digitated, doubly convex, polygonal, pencil-like, wedge-shaped; large pods 2-30 m wide, 40-80 m long, 2-15 m high; ore zone 800 m long, quartz-pyrite-chalcopyrite stringer zone. Fault bounds deposit on E side. Dikes of basalt divide the deposit into smaller blocks. Ocean crust ophiolite.

Geological Context

Tectonic Setting: Mafic in midoceanic ridge

Resources & Operations

Operator: 0

Production Start: 1975

Data Provenance

Source: USGS MRDS | coordinate: Mindat