| Location: | Baja California Sur, Mexico, North America |
| Lat / long: | 27.2836, -112.30069 |
| dep_id: | 10048940 |
| mrds_id: | MX00125 |
| Commodity type: | metallic |
| Major mineral: | Copper, Zinc |
| Minor mineral: | Silver |
| Trace mineral: | Manganese, Lead, Cobalt |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | Large ammount of material produced |
| Development status: | Past Producer |
| ore: | Atacamite, Bornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Chrysocolla, Covellite, Cuprite, Galena, Malachite, Melaconite, Pyrolusite |
| gangue: | Calcite, Chalcedony, Gypsum, Jasper, Montmorillonite |
| work_type: | Surface/Underground |
| model: | 87: Basaltic Cu (BC name is Volcanic redbed Cu) |
| alteration: | Argillic |
| Reporter: | Staude, John-Mark G. (Page, Norman J.), Leonard, Kenneth R. |
| hrock_unit: | Boleo Formation |
| hrock_type: | Meta-Argillite,Conglomerate |
| Structure: | Reg.Struct: Underlying Miocene Volcanics Are Cut By Normal Faults With Displacements Of 50-100 M Into A Series Of E Tilted Blocks Upon Which Post-Miocene Sediments And Tuffs Were Deposited (With Initial Dips). Section Was Later (Pliocene To Recent) Cut By En-Echelon Normal Faults Striking N 10-45 W And Dipping 65-70 Sw And Ne. Major Faults Inclined Towards The Sw, With Maximum Vertical Displacement Of 250 M (Sta. Agueda Fault). Most Faults Show Less Than 80 M Of Displacement. |
| disc_yr: | 1868 |
| 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. 187.
- Deposit:: WILSON, I.F., 1956, GEOLOGIA DEL DISTRITO CUPRIFERO DEL BOLEO, BAJA CALIFORNIA IN GEOLOGIA MINERA DEL NOROESTE DE MEXICO; DEPOSITOS DE COBRE DE CANANEA, SONORA Y DE COBRE Y MANGANESO DE EL BOLEO Y LUCIFER, BAJA CALIFORNIA: CONGRESO GEOLOGICO INTERNACIONAL, XX, EXCURSIONES A-1 Y C-4, P. 53-68.
- Deposit:: WILSON, I.F., 1955, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE BOLEO COPPER DISTRICT, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO: USGS PROFESSIONAL PAPER 273, 134 P.
- Deposit:: COX, D.P., AND SINGER, D.A., 1986, MINERAL DEPOSIT MODELS: USGS BULLETIN 1693, 379 P.
- Production:: WILSON, 1955; WILSON, 1956.
- Reserve-Resource:: WILSON, 1955.
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