Mine detail: Chapeno Salt Dome

Previously called 'Mina De La Pita'

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Location: Tamaulipas, Mexico, North America
Lat / long: 25.43538, -97.51196
dep_id: 10050459
mrds_id: MX25000
Commodity type: nonmetallic
Major mineral: Limestone, General, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Sulfur
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Gypsum, Limestone, Sulfur
orebody_fm: OTHER
model: 255: Salt-dome sulfur
Reporter: Carbonaro, Marguerite M. (Long, Keith R.)
hrock_type: Limestone
arock_type: Evaporite,Salt
Structure: Salt Diapir
tectonic: Rio Grande Salt Basin
disc_yr: 1918
References:
  • Deposit:: BELT, B.C., 1925, CHAPENO SALT DOME, TAMAULIPAS, MEXICO: AM. ASSOC. PET. GEOL. BULL., V. 9, NO. 1, P. 134-135
  • Other Database:: CIMRI
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