Mine detail: Santa Rosa

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Location: Sonora, Mexico, North America
Lat / long: 28.60023, -109.7548
dep_id: 10048904
mrds_id: MX00080
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral: Silver, Lead, Zinc
Minor mineral: Gold
Trace mineral: Barium-Barite, Molybdenum, Graphite
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Medium ammount of material produced
Development status: Producer
ore: Barite, Galena, Graphite, Molybdenite, Sphalerite
gangue: Quartz
work_type: Underground
Reporter: Staude, John-Mark G. (Page, Norman J.), Leonard, Kenneth R.
hrock_unit: Barranca And Mono Formation
hrock_type: Quartzite
Structure: Veins Complicated By Faulting.
References:
  • Deposit:: GUILD, PHILIP W., 1981, PRELIMINARY METALLOGENIC MAP OF NORTH AMERICA: LISTING OF DEPOSITS: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRCULAR 858-B, 72 P..
  • Deposit:: COX, DENNIS P., SINGER, DONALD, A., 1986, MINERAL DEPOSIT MODELS: U.S. GEOLICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1693, 397 P.
  • 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:: NELSON, C., 1910, SAN JAVIER, AN OLD SILVER DISTRICT OF SONORA, MEXICO: ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, V. 90, P. 660-661.
  • Production:: MINING ANNUAL REPORT, 1975
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