Mine detail: Cuatro Hermanos

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Location: Sonora, Mexico, North America
Lat / long: 28.38635, -109.65757
dep_id: 10048862
mrds_id: MX00032
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Copper, Molybdenum
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Unknown
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Molybdenite, Pyrite
orebody_fm: STOCKWORKS, HYDROTHERMAL BRECCIA
model: 79: Porphyry Cu-Mo
alteration: Silicification, Potassic(?)
Reporter: Staude, John-Mark G. (Page, Norman J.), Leonard, Kenneth R.
arock_type: Rhyolite,Andesite
References:
  • Deposit:: PEREZ SEGURA, EFREN, 1985, CARTA METALOGENETICA DE SONORA 1:250000 UNA INTERPRETACION DE LA METALOGENIA DE SONORA: UNIV. OF SONORA, DEPT. OF GEOL., HERMOSILLO, MEXICO, 66 P.
  • Deposit:: ECHAVARRI,A. AND GOMEZ, T.A. 1971. INFORME GEOLOGICO Y DE MINERALIZACION-ALTERACION DEL PROYECTO 4 HERMANOS MUNICIPIO DE ONAVAS, SONORA, ASARCO MEXICANA, S,A., REPORTE INTERNO, 7 P.
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