Mine detail: Los Nietos Occurrence

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Location

Lat / long: 30.95852, -102.65878

Resource(M)

Primary: Zinc, Lead
Ore: Galena
Gangue: Calcite, Dolomite, Pyrite
Discovery year: 1949

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Stratabound
Production size: None
Development status: Occurrence

Geology

Host type:Dolomite
Associated type:Shale,Limestone
Structure:Paleoshelf Edge, Reef Complex
Tectonic:Interior Basin
Alteration processes:Dolomite Replaces Lower Leonardian Shelf-Margin Reef And Bio-Grainstones. Perhaps An Early (Shallow Burial) Phase Of Fine-To-Medium Crystalline Dolomite And A Late, But Pre-Mineral, (Deep Burial) Phase Of Coarse Crystalline Dolomite And Formation Of Secondary Porosity. A Late (Pre, Syn, And Post Mineral) Phase Of Dolomite And Calcite Cement.

References

MRDSTC40067
DEP10065070
Reference{Deposit:: MAZULLO, S.J., 1986, MISSISSIPPI VALLEY-TYPE SULFIDES IN LOWER PERMIAN DOLOMITES, DELAWARE BASIN, TEXAS: IMPLICATIONS FOR BASIN EVOLUTION: AAPG BULLETIN, V. 70, P. 943-952}{Other Database:: CIMRI}
ReporterLong, Keith R.