Mine detail: Mal Abrigo Mine

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Location: Coahuila De Zaragoza, Mexico, North America
Lat / long: 29.29746, -102.33932
dep_id: 10069428
mrds_id: W006959
Commodity type: nonmetallic
Major mineral: Fluorine-Fluorite
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Production occurred
Development status: Producer
ore: Fluorite
work_type: Surface/Underground
ore_ctrl: Faulted Contact Between Intrusive Rhyolite Porphyry And Georgetown Limestone
Reporter: Schruben, Paul G., Orris, Greta J.
hrock_unit: Goergetown Limestone
hrock_type: Limestone
arock_type: Rhyolite
Structure: Reg.Struct: Nw-Trending Synclinorium Bounded On The Ne By The Serranias Del Burro And On The Sw By The Sierra Del Carmen
References:
  • Deposit:: PICKARD, G.W., 1974, GEOLOGY OF MEXICAN FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS, IN HUTCHESON, D.W., ED., A SYMPOSIUM ON THE GEOLOGY OF FLUORSPAR: KENTUCKY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SPECIAL PUBLICATION 22, P. 23-30.
  • Deposit:: VAN ALSTINE, R.E., 1963, INVESTIGATION OF THE PRINCIPAL FLUORSPAR DISTRICTS OF MEXICO: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN-FILE REPORT 688, P. 58.
  • Deposit:: MCANULTY, W.N., AND OTHERS, 1963, AGUACHILE BERYLLIUM-BEARING FLUORSPAR DISTRICT, COAHUILA, MEXICO: GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN 74, NO. 6, P. 735-743.
  • Deposit:: VAN ALSTINE, R.E., 1961, INVESTIGATION OF THE PRINCIPAL FLUORSPAR DISTRICTS OF MEXICO, IN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY RESEARCH 1961--SHORT PAPERS IN THE GEOLOGIC AND HYDROLOGIC SCIENCES, ARTICLES 147-292: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 424-C, P. C212-C215.
  • Other Database:: CIMRI
  • Production:: VAN ALSTINE, 1963; PICKARD, 1974.
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