Mine detail: Las Torres

Previously called 'PurishmaCerro Minera Las TorresGuanajuato UnitSan RafealCedros'

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Location: Guanajuato, Mexico, North America
Lat / long: 21.00056, -101.25038
dep_id: 10081092
mrds_id: W032794
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Silver, Gold
Trace mineral: Lead, Zinc, Copper
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Medium ammount of material produced
Development status: Producer
ore: Argentite, Chalcopyrite, Sphalerite
gangue: Quartz
work_type: Underground
model: 150: Epithermal vein, Comstock
ore_ctrl: Fault Dips 45 Sw
Reporter: Gassaway, Judith S.
hrock_unit: Conglomerate-Footwall
hrock_type: Rhyolite
arock_unit: Granite;Rhyolite-Hanging Wall
arock_type: Rhyolite
Structure: Veta Madra Fault
Year first produced: 1976
References:
  • Deposit:: GROSS, W.H., 1975, NEW ORE DISCOVERY AND SOURCE OF SILVER AND GOLD VEINS, GUANAJUATO, MEXICO: ECON. GEOL., V. 70, P. 1175-1189.
  • Deposit:: E/MJ 1978
  • Deposit:: WAR MINERALS REPORT 1976-1977
  • Deposit:: MINING MAGAZINE, JANUARY, 1987, P. 59.
  • Production:: GROSS, 1975, P. 1176
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