Mine detail: Dulces Nombres

Previously called 'El Abra MinesGuadalupana'

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Location

Lat / long:

22.66715, -101.20038

Resource(M)

Primary:	Mercury
Ore:	Cinnabar, Metacinnabar
Gangue:	Calcite
Orebody form:	POCKETS AND STRINGERS

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Yes
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1890
Last production ended:	1943

Geology

Host type:	Limestone
Structure:	50 Degree Westward Tilt And Contemporaneous Normal (?) Faulting, In Which The Range Was Uplifted Along A Scarp Forming The East Slope. Nappe-Like And Z-Shaped Later Faulted Folds. Direction Of Compression Is Ew.
Alteration processes:	Conspicuously Lacking, Except For Supergene Oxidation Resulting In Universal Hg Minerals And Native Hg.

References

MRDS	MX22000
DEP	10050451
Reference	{Deposit:: BABB, P., 1909, DULCES NOMBRES QUICKSILVER DEPOSIT, MEXICO: ENG. AND MIN. JOUR., V. 88, NO. 14, PP. 684-686.}{Deposit:: GALLAGHER, D., 1942, MEMO TO MR. HEWITT, RECON. VISIT TO DULCES NOMBRES, USGS.}{Deposit:: STORM, L.W., 1942, RECON. REPT. ON DULCES NOMBRES-GUADALUPANA MINES, USGS, UNPUBLISHED.}{Production:: BABB, 1909.}{Reserve-Resource:: BABB, 1909; GALLAGHER, 1942}
Reporter	Slagle, Letha P. (Rytuba, J.)