Mine detail: Noche Buena Prospect

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Location: Guerrero, Mexico, North America
Lat / long: 18.25068, -99.667
dep_id: 10050120
mrds_id: MX11006
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Mercury
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Cinnabar, Metacinnabar
gangue: Calcite
orebody_fm: STRATIFORM
work_type: Unknown
alteration: Hydrothermal Decomposition Of Limestone To Soft Calcareous Aggregate And Residual Clay Caps. Also Redistribution Of Iron Minerals In Weathered Zone.
conc_proc: Hydrothermal
ore_ctrl: Ore Seems To Follow Certain Beds. Ore Underlies Rhyolite Seal. Vein Geometry Not Known. Also, Noneconomic Cinnabar In Clefts In The Rhyolite.
Reporter: Slagle, Letha P. (Rytuba, J.)
hrock_type: Limestone
arock_type: Rhyolite
Structure: Folding Of Sediments. Overlying Rhyolite Is Flat.
References:
  • Deposit:: SCHULZE, G., 1942, LETTER TO MR. J.F. FERNANDEZ DEL VALLE, UNPUBLISHED
  • Reserve-Resource:: SCHULZE, 1942.
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