Mine detail: Red Hills Prospect

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Location

Lat / long: 29.804, -104.40218

Resource(M)

Primary: Copper, Molybdenum
Ore: Chalcopyrite, Chalcocite, Sphalerite
Gangue: Quartz, Pyrite, Garnet

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: porphyry copper
Production size: None
Development status: Prospect

Geology

Host rock:Ross Mine Formation, Mina Grande Formation
Host type:Mixed Clastic/Carbonate Rock,Skarn (Tactite),Limestone
Associated rock:Intrusions, Presdio Formation
Associated type:Quartz Monzonite,Mixed Clastic/Carbonate Rock
Alteration processes:Outcropping Sericite (Central) And Propylitic (Exterior) Alteration; Skarn From Limestone

References

MRDSW701360
DEP10085727
Reference{Deposit:: PRICE, J. G., HENRY, C. D., AND STANDEN, A. R., 1983, ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MINERAL DEPOSITS IN TRANS-PECOS TEXAS: BUREAU OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGY (TEXAS), MINERAL RESOURCE CIRCULAR NO. 73, 108 P}{General:: Silver, D.B., 1999, Finding the silver lining in Shafter, Texas: Mining Engineering, v. 51, p. 28-32.}{Geology:: GILMER, A. K.1, KYLE, J. R.1, CONNELLY, J. N.1, MATHUR, R. D.2, and HENRY, C. D., 2001, THE RED HILLS INTRUSIVE SYSTEM, PRESIDIO COUNTY, TEXAS: THE EASTERNMOST LARAMIDE PORPHYRY COPPER-MOLYBDENUM DEPOSIT IN SOUTHWESTERN NORTH AMERICA: Geological Society of America Abstracts Paper No. 173-0.}{Geology:: Gilmer, A.K., Kyle, J.R., Connelly, J.N., Mathur, R.D. and Henry, C.D., 2003, Extension of Laramide magmatism in southwestern North America into Trans-Pecos Texas; Geology, v. 31, p. 447-450.}{Other Database:: CIMRI}{Production:: PRICE AND OTHERS, 1983}{Reserve-Resource:: Sinclair, W.D., 2008, Mineral deposits of Canada (porphyry deposits, Appendix 2): Geological Survey of Canada, [http://cgc.rncan.gc.ca/mindep/synth_dep/porph/tables/appendix2_e.php, accessed 7/20/2009].}
ReporterPaidakovich, Matthew E., Long, Keith R., Causey, J. Douglas