Mine detail: La Minita

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 18.86897, -103.28542

Resource(B)

Primary: Barium-Barite, Silver, Zinc
Secondary: Lead
Tertiary: Manganese
Ore: Barite, Galena, Sphalerite
Discovery year: 1976

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Yes
Development status: Producer

Geology

Host type:Limestone,Tuff,Rhyolite
Structure:Small Graben Basins. Deposit Is On The Se Nose Of A Doubly Plunging, N60w-Trending Regional Domal Structure Cut By 2 N30e-Trending Normal Faults.

References

MRDSI000636
DEP10023539
Reference{Deposit:: GRIFFITHS, JOYCE, 1988, MEXIC* INDUSTRIAL MINERALS MEETING MANAN* CHALLENGE: INDUSTRIAL MINERALS, NO. 250, P. 19-41.}{Deposit:: DE LA CAMPA J., G., 1991, GEOLOGY AND GENESIS OF THE LA MINITA BARITE DEPOSIT, MICHOACAN, IN SALAS, G.P., ED., ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, MEXICO: BOULDER, COLORADO, GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, THE GEOLGOY OF NORTH AMERICA, V. P-3, P. 333-337.}{Other Database:: CIMRI}{Reserve-Resource:: GRIFFITHS, 1988; DE LA CAMPA J., 1991.}
ReporterOrris, Greta J.