Mine detail: Las Truchas Group

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Location: Michoacan De Ocampo, Mexico, North America
Lat / long: 18.00069, -102.3504
dep_id: 10084828
mrds_id: W700041
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral: Iron
Minor mineral: Sulfur, Copper, Silica, Ferrosilicon
Trace mineral: Phosphorus-Phosphates
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Production occurred
Development status: Producer
ore: Goethite, Hematite, Magnetite
gangue: Epidote, Garnet
model: 62: Skarn Fe
Reporter: Leonard, Kenneth R.
hrock_type: Limestone
arock_type: Diorite
References:
  • Deposit:: GOMEZ RUIZ, DAVID, 1961, CRNNR PUB 3E.
  • Deposit:: ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, 1974, NOVEMBER, P. 98-99.
  • Deposit:: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1693, P. 95.
  • Deposit:: TORON VILLEGAS, LUIS, AND ESTEVE TORRES, ADRIAN, 1948, THE PROGRAM FOR THE SYSTEMATIC STUDY OF RAW MATERIAL RESERVES IN THE MEXICAN IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY BEING CARRIED OUT BY THE BANK OF MEXIC* OFFICE OF INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH: OFICINA DE INVESTIGACIONES INDUSTRIALES DE BANCO DE MEXICO, 23 P.
  • Reserve-Resource:: THE 1948 FIGURE IS FROM TORON VILLEGAS AND ESTEVE TORRES, 1948; THE 1974 ESTIMATE WAS PUBLISHED IN EMJ, 1974; AND THE 1961 ESTIMATE IS FROM GOMEZ RUIZ, 1961.
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