Mine detail: Cuesta De Fierro

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Location: Sonora, Mexico, North America
Lat / long: 28.92939, -109.46312
dep_id: 10048871
mrds_id: MX00042
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Iron
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Unknown
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Hematite, Magnetite, Pyrite
gangue: Biotite, Calcite, Epidote, Garnet, Plagioclase, Quartz
model: 62: Skarn Fe
ore_ctrl: Skarn Deposit At Contact Between Intrusion And Limestone Roof Pendant.
Reporter: Staude, John-Mark G. (Page, Norman J.), Leonard, Kenneth R.
hrock_type: Limestone
arock_type: Diorite
Structure: Roof Pendant, Many Nnw-Sse Trending Normal Faults Of Similar Age.
tectonic: Laramide Intrusions Along Continental Margin.
References:
  • Deposit:: PEREZ SEGURA, EFREN, 1985, CARTA METALOGENICA DE SONORA 1:250,000
  • Deposit:: CABRERA F., F.J., VEGA G., E.L., AND PEREZ S., E., 1983, LOS RECURSOS MINERALES DE FIERRO EN SONORA, EVALUACION GEOLOGICA REGIONAL: GOBIERNO DEL ESTADO DE SONORA, DIRECCION DE MINERIA, GEOLOGIA, Y ENERGETICOS, HERMOSILLO, SONORA, 64 P.
  • Reserve-Resource:: CABRERA, ET.AL., 1983, TABLE VI.
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