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

Lat / long:

8.29895, -81.22235

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold, Silver
Ore:	Acanthite, Electrum, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Ruby, Silver
Gangue:	Calcite, Quartz, Siderite
Orebody form:	VEINS, DISSEMINATED

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Prospect

Geology

Host rock:	Snata Rosa Tuff
Host type:	Tuff
Associated rock:	Canazas Formation;Canazas Formation
Associated type:	Andesite
Tectonic:	Middle American Volcanic Province
Alteration processes:	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

References

MRDS	TC01932
DEP	10097366
Reference	{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}
Reporter	Pierce, Herbert A., Page, Norman J.