Mine detail: San Francisco Del Oro

Previously called 'San FranciscoFrisco'

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Location

Lat / long:

26.86698, -105.85052

Resource(B)

Primary:	Lead, Zinc, Copper, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite
Secondary:	Gold
Tertiary:	Tungsten
Ore:	Anglesite, Bornite, Cerargyrite, Chalcopyrite, Chrysocolla, Covellite, Fluorite, Galena, Hematite, Magnetite, Malachite, Pyrite, Scheelite, Smithsonite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite
Gangue:	Actinolite, Biotite, Calcite, Chlorite, Diopside, Epidote, Gypsum, Ilvaite, Jarosite, Limonite, Mimetite, Plumbojarosite, Pyromorphite, Quartz, Sericite, Wulfenite
Discovery year:	1659

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Yes
Development status:	Past Producer
Last production ended:	1991

Geology

Host type:	Shale
Associated type:	Rhyolite

References

MRDS	W700037
DEP	10084824
Reference	{Deposit:: MOSIER, D.L., U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, WRITTEN COMMUN., 1988}{Deposit:: KOCH, G.S., JR., 1956, THE FRISCO MINE, CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 51, NO. 1, P. 1-40.}{Deposit:: EINAUDI, M.T., MEINERT, L.D., AND NEWBERRY, R.J., 1981, SKARN DEPOSITS: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, 75TH ANNIVERSARY VOLUME, P. 317-391.}{Deposit:: WORLD MINING, OCTOBER, 1980.}{Deposit:: GRIFFITHS, JOYCE, 1988, MEXIC * INDUSTRIAL MINERALS--MEETING MANAN * CHALLENGE: INDUSTRIAL MINERALS, NO. 250, P. 19-41.}{Deposit:: HARBEN, P.W., AND BATES, R.L., 1990, FLUORSPAR, IN INDUSTRIAL MINERALS--GEOLOGY AND WORLD DEPOSITS: LONDON, INDUSTRIAL MINERALS DIVISION OF METAL BULLETIN PLC, P. 110-119.}{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:: SKILLEN, ANDY, FLUORSPAR PRODUCERS--CRACKS IN THE CHINESE WALL?: INDUSTRIAL MINERALS, NO. 307, P. 36-49.}{Other Database:: CIMRI}{Production:: MOSIER, 1988.}{Reserve-Resource:: WORLD MINING, 1980}
Reporter	Leonard, Kenneth R., Orris, Greta J.