Mine detail: Santa Rosa Gold Deposit

Previously called 'Concession Area Includes Alto De La Mina, Otero, Cerro Alzado,Las Huacas, and Santa RosaVeraguas Concession, Santa Rosa Concession'

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Location: Veraguas, Panama, North America
Lat / long: 8.29895, -81.22235
dep_id: 10097366
mrds_id: TC01932
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Gold, Silver
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Prospect
ore: Acanthite, Electrum, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Ruby, Silver
gangue: Calcite, Quartz, Siderite
orebody_fm: VEINS, DISSEMINATED
work_type: Surface
model: 150: Epithermal vein, Comstock
alteration: Silicification And Hydrothermal Breccias On Ring Faults Accompanied By Adularia, Up To 2% Pyrite And Several G Au; Outward Carbonate With Central Siderite-Magnesite To Dolomite To Calcite; Outward Argillazation With Kaolinite-Montmorillonite; Outward Propyllitic With Chlorite. Zones In Part Overpalling And Gradational. Overprinted With Meteroic Oxidation And Supergene Clay Weathering 20-40 M Thick
Reporter: Pierce, Herbert A., Page, Norman J.
hrock_unit: Snata Rosa Tuff
hrock_type: Tuff
arock_unit: Canazas Formation;Canazas Formation
arock_type: Andesite
tectonic: Middle American Volcanic Province
discr: Pre-Colombian
References:
  • Deposit:: ANONYMOUS, 1991, REPUBLICA DE PANAMA MAPA GEOLOGICO: DGRM 1:500,000
  • Deposit:: ANONYMOUS, 1988, PROYECTO INVENTARIO MINERO: DGRM-SGAB INFORME 88-7 MAPA METALOGENETICO
  • Deposit:: MINING JOURNAL, LONDON, JUNE 29, 1990, P. 513.
  • Deposit:: THE NORTHERN MINER, SEPTEMBER 3, 1990, P. 17.
  • Deposit:: DGRM-ONU, 1969, MAPA DE OCCURENCIAS MINERALES EN ESCALA 1:500,000
  • Deposit:: WHITE, D.C., 1993, GEOLOGY AND MINERALIZATION OF THE SANTA ROSA GOLD DEPOSIT, PANAMA: SME PREPRINT 93-31 FOR SME MNN. MEETING RENO, NV., FEBRUARY 15-18, 1993, 5 P.
  • Deposit:: U.S. EMBASSY, 1993, PANAMA CABLE.
  • Deposit:: DAWSON, STEVEN, 1994, GREENSTONE HIKES SANTA ROSA RESERVES: THE NORTHERN MINER, AUGUST 8, 1994, V. 80, NO. 23, P. 1.
  • Other Database:: CIMRI
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