Mine detail: Santa Barbara Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 26.80031, -105.81719

Resource(B)

Primary: Zinc, Lead, Copper, Silver
Secondary: Gold, Fluorine-Fluorite
Ore: Chalcopyrite, Fluorite, Galena, Sphalerite
Gangue: Barite, Calcite, Garnet, Hematite, Orthoclase, Pyrite, Pyroxene, Quartz
Orebody form: ELONGATE
Discovery year: 1563

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Medium
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1600
Last production ended: 1991

Geology

Host type:Shale
Associated type:Andesite
Structure:Complexly Drag-Folded And Faulted Anticlinorium, Shear Fractures

References

MRDSW018927
DEP10089351
Reference{Deposit:: SCOTT, J.B., 1958, STRUCTURE OF THE ORE DEPOSITS AT SANTA BARBARA, CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO; ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 53, P. 1004-1037.}{Deposit:: HARBEN, P.W., AND BATES, R.L., 1990, FLUORITE, IN INDUSTRIAL MINERALS--GEOLOGY AND WORLD DEPOSITS: LONDON, INDUSTRIAL MINERALS DIVISION OF METAL BULLETIN PLC, P. 110-119.}{Deposit:: PICKARD, G.W., 1974, GEOLOGY OF MEXICAN FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS, IN HUTCHESON, D.W., ED., A SYMPOSIUM ON THE GEOLOGY OF FLUORSPAR: KENTUCKY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SPECIAL PUBLICATION 22, P. 23-30.}{Deposit:: SKILLEN, ANDY, 1993, FLUORSPAR PRODUCERS--CRACKS IN THE CHINESE WALL?: INDUSTRIAL MINERALS, NO. 307, P. 36-49.}{Other Database:: CIMRI}{Production:: E/MJ INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY, 1975.}
ReporterSchruben, Paul G., Orris, Greta J.