Mine detail: La Bamboya

Previously called 'Moctezuma Mine'

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Location

Lat / long: 29.68492, -109.69369

Resource(M)

Primary: Gold, Tellurium
Secondary: Uranium
Tertiary: Lead, Mercury
Ore: Cinnabar, Gold
Gangue: Barite, Calcite, Fluorite, Illite, Kaolin, Pyrite, Quartz
Discovery year: 1935

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1936

Geology

Host type:Tuff
Associated type:Andesite
Structure:Deposit Lies Along Trend Of Rancho Arenillas Fault System., Country Rock Has Been Folded And Faulted.

References

MRDSMX00208
DEP10098739
Reference{Deposit:: PEREZ SEGURA, EFREN, 1985, CARTA METALOGENETICA DE SONORA 1:250000 UNA INTERPRETACION DE LA METALOGENIA DE SONORA: UNIV. OF SONORA, DEPT. OF GEOL., HERMOSILLO, MEXICO, 66 P.}{Deposit:: MCANULTY, W.N., 1981, GOLD-SILVER-TELLURIUM ORE DEPOSITS IN SIERRA BLANCA NEAR MOCTEZUMA, SONORA, MEXICO: GSA ABSTRACTS WITH PROGRAMS, V. 13, NO. 2, P. 95.}{Deposit:: MARRS, C.K., AND GUILBERT, J.M., 1981, GEOLOGY AND DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE OPOSURA MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSIT, SONORA, MEXICO IN ORTLIEB, L. AND ROLDAN Q., J., (EDS.), 1981, GEOLOGY OF NORTHWESTERN MEXICO AND SOUTHERN ARIZONA; FIELD GUIDES AND PAPERS: HERMOSILLO, MEXICO, U.N.A.M., P. 169-212.}{Deposit:: GAINES, R.V., 1970, THE MOCTEZUMA TELLURIUM DEPOSIT: MINERALOGIC RECORD, V. 1, NO. 2, P. 40-43.}{Production:: GAINES, 1970.}
ReporterStaude, John-Mark G. (Page, Norman J.), Leonard, Kenneth R. (Page, Norman J.)