Mine detail: First Creek Prospect

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 16.80075, -89.03338

Resource(B)

Primary: Barium-Barite, Manganese
Ore: Barite, Pyrolusite
Gangue: Apatite, Quartz
Discovery year: 1951

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: None
Development status: Occurrence

Geology

Host type:Clastic Sedimentary Rock,Granite
Associated rock:Mountain Pine Ridge Granite
Associated type:Granite
Structure:Miogeosyncline
Alteration processes:Silicification

References

MRDSW701808
DEP10085935
Reference{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}
ReporterBliss, James D., Long, Keith R.