Mine detail: La Princesa

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Location: Baja California, Mexico, North America
Lat / long: 31.66677, -116.08415
dep_id: 10048918
mrds_id: MX00098
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Gold
Trace mineral: Lead, Zinc, Copper
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Vein
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Marcasite, Pyrite, Sphalerite
gangue: Epidote, Hornblende, Magnetite, Pyrrhotite, Quartz, Specularite
model: 85: Polymetallic veins
Reporter: Staude, John-Mark G. (Page, Norman J.), Leonard, Kenneth R.
hrock_type: Diorite
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:: SALAS, G.P., 1975, CARTA Y PROVINCIAS METALOGENETICAS DE LA REPUBLICA MEXICANA: CONSEJO DE RECURSOS MINERALES PUBLICACION 21 E, P. 186.
  • Deposit:: WISSER, E., 1954, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 49, NO. 1, P. 44-76.
  • Production:: WISSER, 1954.
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