Mine detail: La Minita

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Location: Michoacan De Ocampo, Mexico, North America
Lat / long: 18.86897, -103.28542
dep_id: 10023539
mrds_id: I000636
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral: Barium-Barite, Silver, Zinc
Minor mineral: Lead
Trace mineral: Manganese
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Production occurred
Development status: Producer
ore: Barite, Galena, Sphalerite
model: 212: Bedded barite
Reporter: Orris, Greta J.
hrock_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.
disc_yr: 1976
References:
  • 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.
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