Geology of the Brick Flat massive sulfide body, Iron Mountain cluster, West Shasta district, California

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The Brick Flat massive sulfide body is one of a group of 8 individual bodies that constitute the Iron Mountain cluster in the S part of the West Shasta district. Before they were separated by postmineral faulting, 5 of the 8 sulfide bodies formed a single large deposit about 1375 m long with a mass of some 23 million metric tons. The pyritic Brick Flat sulfide body is one of the 5 faulted segements of this deposit. The Brick Flat massive sulfide lies within medium phenocryst rhyolite that is characteristic of the ore-bearing middle unit of the Balaklala Rhyolite. It is interpreted to be downfaulted a vertical distance of 75 to 85 m from the Old Mine sulfide-gossan orebody along the N-dipping Camden South fault. It is bounded in turn on its N side by another parallel fault, the Camden North, which drops the orebody down another 75 m to the level of the Richmond orebody. -from Author
Publication type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Title Geology of the Brick Flat massive sulfide body, Iron Mountain cluster, West Shasta district, California
Series title Economic Geology
DOI 10.2113/gsecongeo.80.8.2092
Volume 80
Issue 8
Year Published 1985
Language English
Publisher Society of Economic Geologists
Description 8 p.
First page 2092
Last page 2099
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