Mine detail: Puertecitos

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Location

Lat / long: 31.00016, -110.38816

Resource(M)

Primary: Copper
Secondary: Zinc, Lead, Silver
Tertiary: Iron
Ore: Bornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Enargite, Galena, Magnetite, Specularite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite
Gangue: Calcite, Garnet
Orebody form: IRREGULAR, ROUGHLY CONFORMABLE TO BEDDING

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Medium
Development status: Past Producer

Geology

Host type:Limestone
Associated rock:Cuitaca Granodiorite
Associated type:Diorite

References

MRDSMX00342
DEP10098743
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:: EMMONS, S.F., 1910, CANANEA MINING DISTRICT OF SONORA, MEXICO: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 5, P. 312-356.}{Deposit:: MEINERT, L.D., 1982, SKARN, MANTO AND BRECCIA PIPE FORMATION IN SEDIMENTARY ROCKS OF THE CANANEA MINING DISTRICT, SONORA, MEXICO: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 77, NO. 4, P. 919-949.}{Deposit:: MEINERT, L.D., 1979, DEVELOPMENT OF MINERALIZED SKARNS, MANTOS AND BRECCIA PIPES IN SEDIMENTARY ROCKS IN THE CANANEA DISTRICT, SONORA, MEXICO: GSA ABSTRACTS WITH PROGRAMS, V. 11, NO. 7, P. 477-478.}{Production:: MEINERT, 1982.}
ReporterLeonard, Kenneth R. (Page, Norman J.)