Mine detail: Sierra De Cobre

Previously called 'Campana'

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Location

Lat / long: 30.98348, -110.34233

Resource(M)

Primary: Zinc, Copper
Ore: Chalcopyrite, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Gangue: Garnet, Idocrase, Pyroxene

Production

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

Geology

Host type:Limestone
Associated type:Quartz Monzonite

References

MRDSMX00562
DEP10098751
Reference{Deposit:: EMMONS, S.F., 1910, CANANEA MINING DISTRICT OF SONORA, MEXICO: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 5, P. 312-356.}{Deposit:: PERRY, V.D., 1961, THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MINERALIZED BRECCIA PIPES: A.I.M.E. TRANS., V. 220, P. 216-226.}{Deposit:: EINAUDI, M.T., 1982, DESCRIPTION OF SKARNS ASSOCIATED WITH PORPHYRY COPPER PLUTONS; SOUTHWESTERN NORTH AMERICA IN TITLEY, S.R., (ED.), ADVANCES IN GEOLOGY OF THE PORPHYRY COPPER DEPOSITS; SOUTHWESTERN NORTH AMERICA: TUCSON, ARIZONA, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS, P. 171-175.}{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.)