Mine detail: Elisa

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Location

Lat / long: 30.99182, -110.35483

Resource(M)

Primary: Copper
Secondary: Zinc
Tertiary: Lead
Ore: Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Malachite, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite
Gangue: Calcite, Diopside, Epidote, Garnet, Quartz

Production

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

Geology

Host rock:Escabrosa Formation
Host type:Limestone
Associated rock:Henrietta Formation
Associated type:Quartz Monzonite,Tuff
Structure:Elisa Fault: E-W, Subvertical, Forms The N Side Of Large Horst.
Alteration processes:Sericitic

References

MRDSMX00556
DEP10049278
Reference{Deposit:: EMMONS, S.F., 1910, CANANEA MINING DISTRICT OF SONORA, MEXICO: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 5, P. 312-356.}{Deposit:: EINAUDI, M.T., 1982, DESCRIPTION OF SKARNS ASSOCIATED WITH PORPHYRY COPPER PLUTONS; SOUTHWESTERN NORTH AMERICA IN TITLEY, S.R., (ED.), ADVANCES IN GEOLOGY OF THE PORPHYRY COPPER DEPOSITS; SOUTHWESTERN NORTH AMERICA: TUCSON, ARIZONA, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS, P. 171-175.}{Deposit:: MEINERT, L.D., 1982, SKARN, MANTO AND BRECCIA PIPE FORMATION IN SEDIMENTARY ROCKS OF THE CANANEA MINING DISTRICT, SONORA, MEXICO: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 77, NO. 4, P. 919-949.}{Deposit:: LEE, M.L., 1912, A GEOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE ELISA MINE, SONORA, MEXICO: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 7, P. 324-339.}{Production:: MEINERT, 1982.}
ReporterLeonard, Kenneth R. (Page, Norman J.)