Tallapoosa

United States· GeorgiaUnknown
Contained Copper
—
Average Grade
1.90%
Deposit Type
VMS — Bimodal-Felsic
Discovery Year
1857

Overview

Elongated tabular lens, 1-7 m thick, avg. 1.5 m, Main ore zone 100 m long, 210 m down-dip, 1.5 m thick. pyrite-sericite alteration up to 8 m from deposit, epidote up to 80 m from deposit. Composite samples contained 33% S, 2.2% Cu, 3.5 g/t Au, and 93 g/t Ag.

Geological Context

Tectonic Setting: Bimodal-felsic in epicontinental arc

Resources & Operations

Production Start: 1873

Data Provenance

Source: USGS MRDS

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