Mine detail: Cerro Colorado

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Location

Lat / long:

30.2335, -111.8257

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold
Secondary:	Silver, Lead, Copper
Ore:	Gold
Gangue:	Hematite, Pyrite, Quartz

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Producer

Geology

Host type:	Gneiss
Associated type:	Rhyolite
Structure:	Basin And Range High Angle Faults (Post Mineralization), Ne And Nw Trending Breccia/Fracture Zones.

References

MRDS	MX00297
DEP	10049077
Reference	{Deposit:: GILES, D.A., SILBERMAN, M.L., AND WENRICH, K.J., 1986, GNEISS-HOSTED GOLD DEPOSITS IN NORTHERN SONORA, MEXICO: WRITTEN COMMUNICATION.}{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.}{Production:: GILES, ET. AL., 1986.}
Reporter	Staude, John-Mark G. (Page, Norman J.), Leonard, Kenneth R.