Mine detail: Piedras Verdes

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Location: Sonora, Mexico, North America
Lat / long: 27.16834, -109.02004
dep_id: 10048957
mrds_id: MX00145
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Copper
Minor mineral: Molybdenum
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Molybdenite, Pyrite
orebody_fm: STOCKWORK
model: 53: Porphyry Cu
alteration: Sericite
Reporter: Staude, John-Mark G. (Page, Norman J.), Leonard, Kenneth R.
hrock_unit: Barranca Formation
hrock_type: Quartzite,Schist
arock_type: Diorite
References:
  • 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:: PEARCE, S.L., 1910, PIEDRAS VERDES DISSEMINATED-COPPER ZONE: ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, V. 89, P. 920.
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