Mine detail: Magallanes

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Location: Sonora, Mexico, North America
Lat / long: 31.05015, -109.83398
dep_id: 10048877
mrds_id: MX00049
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral: Gold, Silver
Minor mineral: Fluorine-Fluorite
Trace mineral: Uranium, Tin
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Prospect
gangue: Chlorite, Garnet, Kaolinite, Montmorillonite, Quartz
other_matl: Fluorite
orebody_fm: LENTICULAR
work_type: Surface/Underground
model: 104: Hot-spring Au-Ag
alteration: Widespread Potassic And Silicic Alteration, Most Intense Along Fractures. Coarse Euhedral Andradite At The Se End Of The Dome Suggests Early Thermal Metamorphism. Chlorite, Montmorillonite, And Kaolinite Present As Alteration Products. Fluorite Abundant In The Mine Openings And Faulted Areas.
ore_ctrl: Fault Controlled, N-S Striking Faults
Reporter: Staude, John-Mark G., Staude, John-Mark G. (Page, Norman J.), Leonard, Kenneth R.
hrock_type: Shale,Siltstone,Sandstone,Carbonate,Rhyolite
arock_type: Rhyolite
Structure: Domal Structure Cut By Three Large Normal Faults Striking Roughly E-W.
References:
  • Deposit:: ARRIGA MELENDEZ, HILARIO (ED.), 1984, INFORME CONSOLIDADO DEL AREA MAGALLANES: CONSEJO DE RECURSOS MINERALES GERENCIA DE ESTUDIOS ESPECIALES, HERMOSILLO, MEXICO, 64P.
  • Deposit:: THEOBALD, PAUL, 1984, MEMO TO JOSE LEE-MORENO ON MAGALLANAS FIELD STUDY, 9P.
  • Other Database:: CIMRI
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