Mine detail: Magallanes

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Location

Lat / long:

31.05015, -109.83398

Resource(B)

Primary:	Gold, Silver
Secondary:	Fluorine-Fluorite
Tertiary:	Uranium, Tin
Gangue:	Chlorite, Garnet, Kaolinite, Montmorillonite, Quartz
Orebody form:	LENTICULAR
Other material:	Fluorite

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	None
Development status:	Prospect

Geology

Host type:	Shale,Siltstone,Sandstone,Carbonate,Rhyolite
Associated type:	Rhyolite
Structure:	Domal Structure Cut By Three Large Normal Faults Striking Roughly E-W.
Alteration processes:	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.

References

MRDS	MX00049
DEP	10048877
Reference	{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}
Reporter	Staude, John-Mark G., Staude, John-Mark G. (Page, Norman J.), Leonard, Kenneth R.