Mine detail: First Creek Prospect

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Location: Cayo, Belize, North America
Lat / long: 16.80075, -89.03338
dep_id: 10085935
mrds_id: W701808
Commodity type: metallic and nonmetallic
Major mineral: Barium-Barite, Manganese
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Barite, Pyrolusite
gangue: Apatite, Quartz
alteration: Silicification
Reporter: Bliss, James D., Long, Keith R.
hrock_type: Clastic Sedimentary Rock,Granite
arock_unit: Mountain Pine Ridge Granite
arock_type: Granite
Structure: Miogeosyncline
disc_yr: 1951
discr: C.G. Dixon
References:
  • Deposit:: INSTITUTO CENTROAMERICANO DE INVESTIGACION Y TECNOLOGIA INDUSTRIAL (ICAITI), 1970, MAPA METRALOGENETIO DE AMERICA CENTRAL; 1:2000000 & ESTUDIOS METALOGENETICOS DE AMERICA CENTRAL: PUBLICIONES GEOLOGICAS DEL ICAITI NUMERO III, 76 P.
  • Deposit:: DIXON, C.G., 1956, GEOLOGY OF SOUTHERN BRITISH HONDURAS WITH NOTES ON ADJACENT AREAS: BELIZE, GOVERNMENT PRINTER, 85 P.
  • Deposit:: BATESON, J.H., AND HALL, I.H.S., 1977, THE GEOLOGY OF THE MAYA MOUNTAINS, BELIZE: INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES (LONDON) OVERSEAS MEMOIR 3, P. 34.
  • Other Database:: CIMRI
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