Mine detail: El Rosario

Previously called 'San JuancitoSanta Fe VeinColonial Vein'

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Location: Santa Barbara, Honduras, North America
Lat / long: 14.22116, -87.08333
dep_id: 10086045
mrds_id: W701942
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Silver, Gold, Zinc, Copper, Lead
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Production occurred
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Argentite, Electrum, Galena, Pyrargyrite, Pyrite, Silver, Sphalerite, Stephanite
gangue: Quartz, Rhodonite
Reporter: Bliss, James D. (Translator), Page, Norman J.
hrock_type: Dacite
prod_yrs: 1882-1954
References:
  • Deposit:: CARPENTER R., 1954, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE ROSARIO MINING DISTRICT AND THE SAN JUAN CITO MOUNTAINS, HONDURAS, C.A., GSA, VOL. 65, P. 23-28.
  • Deposit:: SVANHOLM, J., THE MINERAL POTENTIAL OF HONDURAS, BANTRAL.
  • Deposit:: ROBERTS, R.J., AND IRVING, E.M., 1957, MINERAL DEPOSITS IN CENTRAL AMERICA: USGS BULLETIN 1034, P. 175-176.
  • Other Database:: CIMRI
  • Production:: ROBERTS AND IRVING, 1957; ANON, 1920: MINES HANDBOOK V. 14, P. 1753.
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