Mine detail: Bismark

Previously called 'Cerros Bismark'

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Location

Lat / long: 31.23266, -107.58448

Resource(M)

Primary: Copper, Silver, Zinc, Lead
Secondary: Gold
Tertiary: Manganese, Antimony, Bismuth, Selenium, Iron
Ore: Chalcopyrite, Galena, Iron, Manganese Ox-Hydrous, Sphalerite
Gangue: Fluorite, Pyrrhotite, Quartz
Orebody form: TABULAR
Discovery year: 1986

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small
Development status: Producer
First production started: 1991

Geology

Host rock:Benigno
Host type:Limestone
Associated type:Quartz Monzonite
Alteration processes:Garnet-Mafics Skarn

References

MRDSMX02014
DEP10049395
Reference{Deposit:: GUILD, P.W., 1981, PRELIMINARY METALLOGENIC MAP OF NORTH AMERICA: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRCULAR 858-A AND -B.}{Deposit:: GONZALEZ R., J., 1956, MEMORIA GEOLOGICO-MINERA DEL ESTADO DE CHIHUAHUA: XX CONGRESO GEOLOGICO INTERNACIONAL (DURANGO, MX), P. 47.}{Deposit:: CLARK, K.F., AND GOODELL, P.C., (EDS.), 1983, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF NORTH-CENTRAL CHIHUAHUA: EL PASO GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, GUIDEBOOK, 1983 FIELD CONFERENCE, 0CT. 7-9, 1983, PLATE 1, SCALE 1:500000.}{Deposit:: MINING MAGAZINE, 1986, V. 154, NO. 4, P. 293.}{Deposit:: SHARP, W.B., AND GOODELL, P.C., 1990, AN OVERVIEW OF THE GEOLOGY AND MINERALIZATION OF THE BISMARK DISTRICT, CERRO DE BISMARK, CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO, IN GOODELL, P.C., AND SHARP, W.B., EDS., FIELDTRIP GUIDEBOOK, CERRO DE BISMARK, CHIHUAHUA: SYMPOSIUM ON MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE CHIHUAHUA DESERT, FEB. 16-18, 1990, EL PASO, TX, P. 23-34.}{Other Database:: CIMRI}{Reserve-Resource:: MINE STAFF}
ReporterLeonard, Kenneth R. (Page, Norman J.), Long, Keith R. And Mckelvey, G.E.